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...concern to the combatants. GAM claims to want independence; the military intends "to defend the country's unity at all costs," says Defense Ministry Director of Strategic Planning, General Sudrajat. But the situation is muddied by economics: both sides profit through smuggling, extortion, illegal logging and the sale of marijuana. Peace would threaten cash flow. "Both GAM and the government are more interested in saving face than saving the lives of the Acehnese people," says Ghazali Abbas Adan, an Acehnese representative to the People's Consultative Assembly, Indonesia's highest legislative body...
...amazing that Eric Schlosser is still capable of being shocked. As the author of Fast Food Nation, the best-selling indictment of the burger-and-fries industry, he has peered into some pretty nasty grease traps. But get him started on marijuana laws, and he's almost at a loss for words. "Some of these people are facing 20 years in prison for selling a glass water pipe with a pot leaf on it. I mean, that's just unbelievable. When you think about the fact that the typical convicted murderer in the U.S. does...
...Sturman, a humble Cleveland comic-book salesman who became the founding father of America's $10 billion porn industry and who deserves a whole book of his own. We meet Mark Young, a good-natured loser who got a life sentence--without parole--for his peripheral role in one marijuana deal. Schlosser has a gift for spotting colossal numbers that hide in plain sight: America's domestic marijuana harvest, he tells us, is worth upwards of $20 billion a year, making it the country's largest cash crop...
...HUPD officers placed 23-year-old Scott Gallo, from Somerville, under arrest for Class B (crack and cocaine) and Class D (marijuana) drug possession...
Rodriguez, 21—who according to family was Colono’s cousin—spent six months in jail in 2001 for possession of a firearm without a license and resisting arrest. Rodriguez also admitted to possession of marijuana in 1999 and two incidents of assault and battery—including one with a dangerous weapon...