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Alleged drug smugglers were speeding down Interstate 8 near Casa Grande when police spotted their SUV going over 100 mph. The police embarked on a high-speed pursuit, and the vehicle's occupants began to throw bales of what seemed like an endless supply of marijuana out of the SUV's back window.
The amount of cannabis seized by U.S. federal, state and local officers along the Mexican border has fallen 37 percent since 2011, a period during which American marijuana consumers have increasingly turned to the more potent, higher-grade domestic varieties cultivated under legal and quasi-legal protections in more than two dozen U.S. states.
In the world-renowned California marijuana growing region known as the Emerald Triangle, a new source of anxiety for pot farmers has emerged: a paramilitary, private security firm known as LEAR Asset Management Corp.
Authorities say they received a call earlier this week from a Hertz Rent-A-Car location near Albuquerque International Sunport claiming that a customer had just turned in a vehicle loaded up with nearly 140 pounds of “high grade” weed crammed into several trash bags in the trunk of the rental car.
Border Patrol agents stopped a vehicle that tried to illegally drive into the United States today and seized 42 bundles of marijuana weighing 937 pounds with an estimated street value of $562,200.
In Arizona, a Pima County Superior Court judge said the language of the statute is so vague that it could be read that medical marijuana users can sell to other users without fear of breaking the law.
A Nigerian college student gets death for trafficking 26.5kg of cannabis in Malaysia four years ago.
