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Richard Riley Jr., was sentenced in 1992 to house arrest and probation on cocaine and marijuana charges. His father Richard Riley was Clinton's Education Secretary...
...Harvard's ideology of un-fun? Whatever else its shortcomings, the left has never seemed short on merriment. When members of Students for a Democratic Society took over University Hall in 1969 to protest the presence of ROTC on campus, they didn't forget to bring their stashes of marijuana. They chafed against the constraints of University and governmental authority. They were fighting for their right--and the rights of others--to enjoy the good life, and that life sometimes included the standard vices: drinking, drugs and surely, now and then, a little gambling...
...Four years ago, Danny Kyllo was growing marijuana in his Oregon home, and he got busted - he admits that. But he's not crazy about how the cops found out. An Oregon National Guard soldier, using a thermal imaging device from outside Kyollo's house, noticed unusually high levels of heat coming from inside. The soldier tipped off the cops, the cops got a warrant, and Kyolo got arrested after police found dozens of marijuana plants growing in his attic. He was using halogen lamps to grow the stuff...
...drugs, if it is to be waged on marijuana growers like Kyllo, certainly demands zeal. And the Supreme Court may well rule that a man's home is his castle only if he's installed lead panels in the walls. But this is also a court that leans strongly toward individual rights, no matter how you interpret the end of the vote-counting in Florida, and they're likely to take the constitutional right against unreasonable search and seizure pretty seriously...
Reusser's store has an airy, modern feel. Its shelves and other display spaces are crammed with a bewildering array of hemp by-products. But most customers make straight for the counter and its white plastic drawer of cellophane-wrapped marijuana. "Hemp shops are basically places that sell grass," says Reusser. "The rest has been a good way of camouflaging an illegal activity. I like all the other stuff, but it doesn't make a lot of money...