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...made a sweep of the mountainous "bandit country" in the state of Veracruz, 300 miles southeast of Mexico City. Nearing the banks of the Coachapa River in predawn darkness, the government force surprised a gang of some 50 drug traffickers in the act of loading 1,300 lbs. of marijuana onto a boat. The police had hardly shouted a warning when the smugglers opened fire...
...held for questioning in the massacre. Two informers who had reportedly accompanied police and survived the ordeal were "contributing information." So far one suspect has been arrested. Brigadier General Jaime Jiménez Muńóz, a Mexican army commander, believes that armed peasants, "desperate to earn money" by growing marijuana, may have done the killing. Indeed, military patrols have reported that entire villages have been abandoned by frightened peasants as soldiers comb the mountains, searching for the culprits. But evidence also indicates that powerful drug traffickers are behind the murders. "We are fighting intensely against drug traffic," insisted Attorney General...
...Officers reported to Winthrop House in response to the alleged scent of marijuana wafting in the building. The responding officers determined the scent was actually cigar smoke...
...went to George W. Bush in the presidential race, coloring it red on the electoral maps, it also chose its first Democratic Governor since 1984, broke the G.O.P.'s hold on the state legislature and backed a pair of progressive ballot initiatives banning toxic mining practices and legalizing medical marijuana...
...everyone doing pretty much anything he wished is a huge environmental mess, from the copper mines of Butte, where the water table is thick with heavy metals, to the asbestos mines of Libby, where laborers are dying in large numbers from chronic respiratory ailments. No wonder Montanans legalized medical marijuana last fall. The stuff is said to ease the pain of battling cancer, and up in Libby at least, that pain is great...