Word: marijuana
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...Tahoe National Forest. Campers slumber in lakeside tents; bikers have yet to hit the trails. But all is not quiet on this cool July morning. A platoon of camouflaged figures equipped with rifles, pistols and bulletproof vests creep through manzanita brush with a police dog. Their objective: a marijuana plantation a few hundred yards from a well-traveled tourist area...
...invading federal lands as never before. A U.S. Park Service ranger in Arizona's Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument was gunned down by a Mexican pot smuggler last August. In Missouri's Mark Twain National Forest, 192 meth labs have been dismantled over the past three years. And marijuana farms are infesting Kentucky's Daniel Boone National Forest and Alabama's Talladega National Forest...
...place of the two original charges—including a count of conspiracy to violate drug laws in addition to the trafficking count—Dalla Santa pled guilty to a single count of trafficking marijuana in an amount more than 50 but less than 100 pounds, Middlesex County District Attorney’s spokesperson Emily J. LaGrassa said...
...PuraVida's owners, smiles and invites a guest to follow her into the nondescript storefront in Rome's residential Testaccio neighborhood. At the bottom of a narrow winding staircase is a well-lit store painted in psychedelic colors, the very antithesis of the grimy Amsterdam "head shops" that peddle marijuana, cheap drug paraphernalia, a few legal uppers and rock-star T shirts. Here the products, which include €170 bongs, are pricey on purpose. "We wanted to have the highest quality and remain far from any suspicion," says Secci, adding that the upscale rates discourage the wrong kind of clientele...
...undemocratic." Sitting outside PuraVida, Roberto Bartoccini, 21, agrees. He is a fan of the new store and their "charge-up" drinks for his occasional nights out on the town. But, he says, there's one product still missing. "This is great," he says, "but I wish they could sell marijuana." Bartoccini is smart enough to know that is still years away...