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...belly of the voting-reform movement is a man who personifies this paradoxical lack of credibility in the service of a credible cause. Brett Kimberlin was convicted in 1981 of a series of bombings in Indiana. By his own account, he dealt "many, many tons" of marijuana in the 1970s. Most famously, he is the man who from his prison cell alleged that as a law student Dan Quayle bought marijuana from him. Quayle repeatedly denied the charge, and it was never substantiated. In e-mails and Web postings from Kimberlin's two organizations, Justice Through Music and Velvet Revolution...
...Marijuana bales Texas police seized from a truck driver, Louis Mendez, 29, last month. He was arrested and held on a $1 million bond...
DIED. Raymond Shafer, 89, former Pennsylvania Governor; in Meadville, Pa. He chaired Richard Nixon's Commission on Marijuana and Drug Abuse--which stunned Nixon by recommending legalizing pot in small amounts. Shafer was nicknamed Dudley Do-Right for well-intentioned efforts that sometimes got him in trouble...
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...Walker describes it, his encounter with the celebrity cops left him more dazed than dazzled. Cameras started rolling as he was apprehended and arrested on a warrant and a misdemeanor marijuana possession charge. Walker was then asked to sign a release giving producers permission to show his face on air. When he complied, they handed him $150 in cash. "The only reason I took the money was the fear that they would show my face on TV anyway with or without my signing," says Walker, who is now out of jail and awaiting his day in court...