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​A Florida pilot pleaded guilty Thursday in federal court in Pittsburgh to conspiring to sell a product designed to help people beat federally mandated urinalysis drug tests.

Stephen Sharp, 41, of Port Orange, Fla., sold a powdered drink mix over the Internet that he said was 100 percent effective in helping fellow pilots and other transportation workers such as truck drivers and train engineers beat the drug tests, reports Brian Bowling at the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review.
The product was advertised as clearing urine of the metabolites of marijuana, cocaine and other illegal drugs so that individuals could beat the test, thus meet safety standards adopted by the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT).

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Ethan Nadelmann, DPA: “The continuing emphasis on interdiction and law enforcement in the federal Drug War budget suggest that ONDCP is far more wedded to the failures of the past than to any new vision for the future.”

​It’s no surprise that Drug Czar Gil Kerlikowske will testify Wednesday before a Congressional subcommittee on the White House’s Drug War budget. More surprising, and more encouraging, is the fact that Ethan Nadelmann, executive director of the Drug Policy Alliance (DPA), a group which has actively fought against the Drug War, will also be testifying.

The U.S. House Domestic Policy Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio), will hold a hearing Wednesday morning on the Drug War budget and forthcoming 2010 National Drug Control Strategy.
Nadelmann’s testimony will focus on:
• The Drug War’s flawed performance measures
• The lop-sided ratio between supply and demand spending in the national drug budget

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“What poop?”

​A medical marijuana activist and grower has accused King County Sheriff’s detectives of smearing feces in his Kirkland, Washington home during a search last month.

Steve Sarich said this week that deputies searching his house March 15 “smeared human excrement (poop) on the wall behind his bed and nightstand,” according to a press release from the Sheriff’s Department, reports Joyce Chen of The Tacoma News Tribune.
​The allegations were made in emails sent by Sarich to the Sheriff’s Office on April 2 and April 5, the department claimed in a press release.

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​A Rhode Island state Senate commission has recommended that an ounce or less of marijuana be decriminalized in the state.

The panel, chaired by state Sen. Joshua Miller (D-Cranston), voted Tuesday to approve a 24-page final report concluding that marijuana law reform would save Rhode Island money by avoiding “costly arrests [and]incarcerations due to simple possession of marijuana,” reports Katherine Gregg of The Providence Journal.
The report says that Rhode Island could take its lead from Massachusetts, where adults 18 or older caught with an ounce or less of pot are required only to pay a $100 civil fine “that goes directly to the municipality in which the penalty was issued.”

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​The New Hampshire House of Representatives Wednesday voted, as it did in 2008, to decriminalize small amounts of marijuana.

House Bill 1653, which would reduce the penalty for possessing one-quarter ounce or less of cannabis, passed by an overwhelming 214-137 vote. That’s almost 61 percent of the House voting in favor of decrim.
Previously, the bill had been recommended “out to pass” in a 16-2 vote by the House Criminal Justice and Public Safety Committee on February 11.
“This makes three years in a row that the House has passed a bill attempting to reform New Hampshire’s archaic marijuana policies,” said Matt Simon, executive director for the New Hampshire Coalition for Common Sense Marijuana Policy.

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​Hear the latest from those prohibitionist drug warriors at the United Nations? They don’t like medical marijuana, and they’re offering free (and unsolicited) input to the 14 states in the U.S. that have legalized the medicinal use of cannabis.

The U.N.’s International Narcotics Control Board’s (INCB) attempts to meddle in marijuana reform in the United States were denounced by the Marijuana Policy Project on Thursday.
The INCB, which is currently meeting in Vienna, Austria, said in a recent report that they were “deeply concerned” that the 14 U.S. states that have medical marijuana laws are sending the “wrong message to other countries.”
And here you were thinking that American states got to decide for themselves what “messages” to send! Silly you, they’re supposed to get the permission of the United Nations, first!
“The last thing the INCB should be doing is meddling in our states’ affairs,” said Aaron Houston, MPP director of government relations.

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​A Rhode Island Senate panel is expected to recommend decriminalizing the possession of small amounts of marijuana when it wraps up its 3 1/2-month investigation later this week.

The commission, chaired by state Sen. Joshua Miller (D-Cranston), has been studying the costs of current marijuana policy since November. Rhode Island, facing a budget crisis, tasked the panel to build a dossier on how much it costs to arrest, prosecute, and sometimes jail people for pot, reports Katherine Gregg at The Providence Journal.

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​An Ohio man called police Monday afternoon to report that someone had robbed him at gunpoint — and stolen his bag of marijuana.

According to police, 35-year-old Jason Owens told them he’d been robbed by a gunman around 4 p.m. in Over-The-Rhine, Cincinnati, reports Travis Gettys at WLWT.com.
When officers asked Owens what the gunman stole, he told them the robber took at $80 bag of pot.

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Officer, may I please roll around in the evidence?

​State Troopers in Lorain County, Ohio seized 90 pounds of marijuana “valued at more than $200,000” after a traffic stop early Tuesday morning.

Officers stopped a 1992 Mitsubishi pickup truck for a marked lanes violation on the Ohio Turnpike near S.R. 58, reports Angie Price at NBC4i.com.
According to the Ohio State Highway Patrol, troopers saw “criminal indicators” in the vehicle (rolling papers? roaches? Grateful Dead CDs?) and a drug dog was called to the scene.
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