Word: marijuana
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...does not claim to be unswervingly wholesome. He admits that he sometimes joined his wife in the use of cocaine. He denies, however, her charge that he once flew a load of marijuana from the Bahamas to Florida on board his plane. He also said in pretrial testimony that twice he joined in a drugs-and-sex frolic with Roxanne and Jacqueline Kimberly, 32, the third wife of James Kimberly, 76, an heir to the papermaking Kimberly-Clark fortune. But most of the time, according to Peter, his wife and Mrs. Kimberly carried on their love affair without him. Roxanne...
...long is long enough for those who ought to be imprisoned? Minnesota's guidelines provide for sentences as long as those ordinarily given in the past. A one-year stayed sentence for first-offense marijuana possession, 27 years for a second-degree murderer with a string of earlier felony convictions. Other jurisdictions will temper justice with less mercy. Jerdell White, 36, a smooth-talking father of five, had been to prison in Texas twice before, for burglary and marijuana convictions. He was convicted in Dallas in 1978 of possessing a sawed-off shotgun, and given a life term. In Minnesota...
...story on crimes like satanic disembowelment of animals, assault and dead-body dumping should not include the cultivation of a plant that is consumed by 25.5 million Americans and that one week earlier you noted was the fourth largest cash crop in America. The only crime committed by the marijuana growers is the profit accrued and the taxes not paid...
...year and again in 1980. Last January, however, the Justice Department, acting on a federal civil suit that revealed financial improprieties with the Walco National Corp. of New York, which Richmond controlled, began an investigation of the Congressman. Last week Rich mond, 58, pleaded guilty to tax evasion, possessing marijuana cigarettes obtained from his staff and making an illegal payment of $7,420 to a Navy employee who had been helpful in winning Government contracts for a Brooklyn ship-repair firm...
Many scams involve the purchase of glittering nonfood items with stamps. Agents have bought a motorboat and used cars in Illinois, a gun complete with silencer in Wisconsin and marijuana in Kentucky. At the Hennepin Hotel in Minneapolis, the U.S. agency investigators discovered that the owner gladly accepted the coupons instead of cash when it came to settle the room bill. In an investigation in Las Vegas headed by Lamond Mills, U.S. Attorney for Nevada, federal agents used the stamps this year to purchase, among other items, four guns, two diamond rings, a handsaw, cocaine, a macaw from Mexico...