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Marijuana

  • Blogs

    April 23, 2012

    Larry J. Davis Pleads Guilty to Marijuana Distribution Charge

    Larry J. Davis, the former St. Louis Police Sergeant who used his official position to run a marijuana distribution operation with his brother Linus Davis, pleaded guilty this morning to one felony count of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute marijuana and one felony count of possession ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 9, 2012

    Linus R. Davis: Pleads Guilty to Drug Conspiracy Charges

    ​Linus R. Davis, 43, the St. Louis County man who was charged with diverting seized packages containing marijuana for distribution and sale, has pleaded guilty to one felony count of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute marijuana and one felony count  possession with intent to dist ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 19, 2012

    Cop Ganks Dank, Feds Spank

    ​Here's why your package from Humboldt didn't arrive in time for Christmas: Sergeant Larry J. Davis of the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department enjoys his job so much that he allegedly took work home with him on a regular basis. Davis is assigned to the Central Patrol Division-Special Operatio ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 8, 2011

    Proposals Seek to Legalize Marijuana in Missouri

    Is Missouri going to pot?​Missourians could get to vote on whether to legalize marijuana if two recently filed initiatives get enough signatures to land on the November 2012 ballot. On Monday the Missouri Secretary of State's Office approved the wording for the petitions that would legalize the pu ... More >>

  • News

    October 27, 2011

    Obama's War on Weed

    In a strange about-face, the president tries to hack medical marijuana off at the knees

  • Blogs

    October 12, 2011

    Marijuana Can't Stay Out of the Food News

    Wikimedia CommonsMarijuana can't stay out of food news. ​ There aren't many rules regarding marijuana consumption, except for those laws that make it illegal. In the past week, though, marijuana keeps appearing in food news. And it's not just pot brownies giving people the munchies. Well, in ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 28, 2011

    Illinois State Police Uncover Massive Marijuana Shipments in Metro East

    ​Illinois State Police have seized 743 pounds of cannabis valued in excess of $3.4 million during two traffic stops along Interstate 70 in metro East St. Louis within the past 30 days. On August 29, District 11 troopers stopped a silver Ford pickup on I-70 near Troy and located 633 pounds of can ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 1, 2011

    D'oh! Dealer Texts Sheriff About Drugs for Sale

    Hey officer -- wanna buy some weed?​We've heard of stupid criminals, but your average dumbass has nothing on Amy R. Horman.According to the Southeast Missourian, this rocket scientist actually sent a sheriff's deputy a text message, asking if he'd like to buy some dope. Naturally enough, the dude ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 11, 2011

    3 Reasons Why Medical Marijuana is Junk Science, According to Feds

    Medical marijuana: You're outta here!​On Friday the U. S. Department of Health and Human Services at long last responded to an 11-year-old petition that asked the federal government to reconsider its stance on the use of medical marijuana. The ruling last week likely won't encourage Missouri to jo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 6, 2011

    Medical Marijuana Bill Goes Up In Smoke In Illinois

    ​Illinois won't become the sixteenth state in the nation to pass a medical-marijuana law. Yesterday a bill that would have allowed the state to institute a three-year pilot program to legalize the medicinal use of marijuana failed in the Illinois House by a vote of 53 to 61. The bill faced steep o ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 6, 2011

    Comment of the Day: We Don't Need No Stinkin' Legislature

    Today's comment comes in response to Chad Garrison's post about the Illinois Legislature scuttling plans to give medical marijuana a try. Our favorite comment came from Daily RFT regular Handsome Jimmy, who writes,It seems to me that there is a rather easy access to high quality herb anyway, so fuc ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 16, 2011

    Cops Bust Truck Hauling Tomatoes and 600 Pounds of Pot on I-55/70

    ​On Monday morning, February 14, Illinois State Police found 600 pounds of marijuana in a tractor-trailer hauling tomatoes on Interstate 55/70 near Highway 159 in Collinsville. The Belleville News-Democrat reports that Jose A. Martinez of Glendale, Arizona, and Manuel Medrano of Merced, Calif ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 2, 2010

    Camp Zoe Update: Highway Patrol Busted Thousands En Route To Festivals

    Image viaSince 2007, state troopers have arrested more than 2,000 people at checkpoints near Camp Zoe ​Just after midnight on October 29, 2008, the Missouri State Highway Patrol pulled over a 1989 Ford van on Route 19 in Eminence, Missouri. The driver, a 23-year-old from Desoto named Joseph Wayne ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 1, 2010

    Roadblock: Highway Patrol Busted Thousands En Route To Camp Zoe

    Image viaSince 2007, state troopers have arrested more than 2,000 people at checkpoints near Camp Zoe ​Just after midnight on October 29, 2008, the Missouri State Highway Patrol pulled over a 1989 Ford van on Route 19 in Eminence, Missouri. The driver, a 23-year-old from Desoto named Joseph Wayne ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 14, 2010

    Illinois Medical Marijuana Bill Goes Up In Smoke

    Image sourceRIP Compassionate Use of Medicinal Cannabis Pilot Program Act​"Illinois House lawmakers will likely not pass the dutchie until next legislative session."That's lede from an NBC Chicago story today on medical marijuana in the Land of Lincoln about the imminent demise of the Compassionat ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 26, 2010

    Dennis Powell: Hannibal Man Sentenced for Drugs Busted Trying to Bring Pot to Prison

    hannibal.netDennis Powell​If at first you don't succeed, fail, fail again. That's the lesson learned from Dennis R. Powell. Powell, 19, was being processed at the Marion County Jail in Palmyra, Missouri, this month on a previous drug charge when authorities say they discovered marijuana on the new ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 14, 2010

    Deaths Stun St. Louis Medical Marijuana Community

    Two men actively involved in campaigning for medical cannabis in Missouri died in recent weeks, saddening St. Louis' tight-knit community of marijuana activists.Gary Davey, former president of the Greater St. Louis chapter of NORML, died Sunday, May 9, of a heart attack. He was 48.Rik Ebner, manager ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 12, 2010

    Lobbyist For Illinois Police Chiefs: Medical Marijuana = Meth

    Meth and Marijuana: a match made...absolutely nowhere.​His name is Limey Nargalenes (no, really that's his name) and he is trying to stop the Illinois General Assembly from passing Senate Bill 1381. The law would allow primary caregivers for people with "debilitating medical conditions" to prescri ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 10, 2010

    Serious Weight: Dealer Sentenced for Moving 8.5 Tons of Pot Over 5 Years

    So, exactly how much is 8.5 tons of pot? Obligatory photograph of pot.Answer: 17,000 pounds or 7,711 kilograms or 103 Michael Phelpses or 38,555 copies of Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon or 453,592 Twinkies or 131,949 White Castle Sliders. That's how much mary jane an East St. Louis drug de ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 12, 2010

    "Mayor-Juana" Cottleville's Don Yarber A Hit At Missouri NORML Meeting

    photo by Keegan HamiltonDon Yarber's mustache also supports medical marijuana in Missouri​Riverfront Times founder Ray Hartmann had to cancel his speaking engagement Saturday at Missouri NORML's Spring Conference on Cherokee Street.Maybe it was just the mellow attitudes of the two dozen or so peop ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 6, 2010

    RFT Founder Ray Hartmann to Speak at Missouri NORML Conference on Saturday

    Ray Hartmann at the University of Missouri, his alma mater​If you see smoke wafting out of the Randall Building at 3022A Cherokee Street on Saturday don't call the fire department. It's probably harmless.The Missouri chapter of NORML -- the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Law -- ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 12, 2010

    Denver Westword Writer Waxes Poetic Over Dream Gig: Pot Reviewer

    Image source​Last fall Westword, our sister paper in Denver, garnered national attention by advertising for the nation's very first marijuana critic. Yep -- they would be paying a writer to toke up and write about it. Oh, and also critique the atmosphere of various medical marijuana dispensaries a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 10, 2010

    Missouri State Troopers Nab 3,700 Pounds of Marijuana

    Missouri Highway PatrolA file photo from a 2009 Missouri bust that netted just 1,350 pounds of pot.​Updated: 3:27 p.m.Just spoke to Sgt. Jim Haggett of the Missouri Highway Patrol's Troop E. Haggett informs that while large, Sunday's bust of 3,669 pounds of pot is shy of the record 4,100 pounds of ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 4, 2010

    Missouri Lawmakers To Meet With Medical Marijuana Patients Next Week

    image via Group wants state senators to support Sour Diesel​Next Wednesday, February 10, members of the group Sensible Missouri -- self-described as "patients having a diagnosis that could be ameliorated through the use of cannabis" -- will travel to Jefferson City and lobby state lead ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 27, 2010

    Cottleville Mayor Don Yarber Continues to Blaze A Path to Medical Marijuana in Missouri, Passes Sticky Issue to Voters

    Cottleville Mayor Don Yarber and his wife Sylvia​Last time we covered Cottleville, Don Yarber, the city's 70 year-old mayor, was extolling the benefits of medical marijuana (his wife used it to combat the side effects of breast cancer chemotherapy) and cajoling state lawmakers to let voters decide ... More >>

  • News

    January 13, 2010

    Readers discuss the highs and lows of medical marijuana, while Skip Olsen's reputation goes up in smoke

    Cottleville Mayor Don Yarber and his wife Sylvia​Last time we covered Cottleville, Don Yarber, the city's 70 year-old mayor, was extolling the benefits of medical marijuana (his wife used it to combat the side effects of breast cancer chemotherapy) and cajoling state lawmakers to let voters decide ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 24, 2009

    A Trip to the Sprawling Weed Fields of...Nebraska?

    Remember ditch weed? That lowly form of cannabis that the Missouri Highway Patrol loves to spend time and money eradicating? Well, here's a little history lesson on the stuff for you, courtesy of local pot activist Mark Pedersen and plant geneticist Dr. Dave West.The pair were traveling through east ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 22, 2009

    "Club TV One" Owner Pleads Guilty to Having 418 lbs. of Pot, Transporting Stolen Goods

    An advertisement for Club TV One from earlier this year.​Last time we mentioned Robert Williams here on Daily RFT, the 46-year-old Kirkwood resident had just earned a nomination in one of our first Ass Clown of the Week competitions. That was back in April when law enforcement raided his East St. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 18, 2009

    St. Louis NORML Chapter Holding "Prince of Pot" Protest Tomorrow

    www.seattleweekly.comMarc Emery: The Baron of the Bong​Marc Emery calls himself "The Prince of Pot." Others have dubbed him "The Johnny Appleseed of the Sticky." The Vancouver, British Columbia native has earned both titles. He is the editor of Cannabis Culture magazine and the founder o ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 30, 2009

    Illinois Lawmakers High On Medical Marijuana Bills

    http://www.ratemyeverything.net/Illinois lawmakers (including one from Alton) recently introduced medical marijuana legislation in the state's House and Senate. And, unlike in Missouri, both of the bills have made it out of their committee hearings and are one step closer to becoming law.Via the Chi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 20, 2009

    Medical Marijuana Comes to the Midwest

    http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/pic/CMAG/938-022~Marijuana-Posters.jpgStarting next month, residents of Michigan will be able to petition their doctor for a pot prescription of up to twelve plants. Michigan is the first non-coastal state east of the Rocky Mountains to enact such a law.Techn ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 24, 2009

    Meanwhile, In California

    While a handful of lawmakers and activists are fruitlessly lobbying for Missouri to become the fourteenth state to sanction marijuana for medical use (a topic that was covered in-depth in RFT's dead tree edition this week), a legislator from San Francisco has introduced a bill to California's genera ... More >>

  • News

    February 18, 2009

    Pot Hole: A southwest Missouri hamlet is leading the latest fight to legalize medical marijuana

    While a handful of lawmakers and activists are fruitlessly lobbying for Missouri to become the fourteenth state to sanction marijuana for medical use (a topic that was covered in-depth in RFT's dead tree edition this week), a legislator from San Francisco has introduced a bill to California's genera ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 20, 2009

    Inhale to the Chief

    Missouri could join roughly a dozen states that allow doctors to authorize patients to use marijuana for medical purposes. Last week State Representative Kate Meiners (D-Kansas City) introduced House Bill 277 that would change Missouri laws regarding the classification of marijuana as a contr ... More >>

  • News

    January 30, 2008

    Libertarians shun Chief Wana Dubie.

    Critics say he's just blowing smoke.

  • Music

    May 9, 2007

    Redman

    Red Gone Wild (Def Jam)

  • Dining

    January 24, 2007

    Top Ramen (Chicken Vegetable Flavor)

    $0.23
    Grand Supermarket
    2700 South Grand Boulevard

  • Music

    January 24, 2007

    Redman

    9 p.m. Thursday, January 25. Blueberry Hill's Duck Room (6504 Delmar Boulevard, University City).

  • Music

    November 17, 2004

    DUI or DWB?

    Murphy Lee's publicist says the rapper was pulled over for Driving While Black

  • Music

    October 22, 2003

    Just One Toke?

    They may have been hippies, but Brewer & Shipley always bathed

  • Music

    September 19, 2001

    Smokin' Groove

    What to look for at the Bearcat Harvest Festival

  • Music

    September 19, 2001

    Joint Effort

    Music, politics and business converge at NORML's 30th- anniversary celebration

  • Calendar

    July 25, 2001

    Afro Show

    New Line Theatre shows off its crowning glory in an open-ended run of Hair

  • News

    May 30, 2001

    Letters

    Week of May 30, 2001

  • News

    May 16, 2001

    The Media Go to Pot

    How news outlets blew the medical-marijuana story

  • News

    November 1, 2000

    Letters

    Week of November 1, 2000

  • News

    February 23, 2000

    Cultivating Injustice

    The perfectly imperfect case for legalizing medical marijuana

  • News

    February 23, 2000

    Pot Luck

    Calling the cops was probably the last thing Jim Hammond should have done

  • News

    January 12, 2000

    DEMONS IN THE COURTROOM

    Vince Greer heard voices in his head, then killed his mother. But prosecutors have their own departures from reality.

  • News

    November 17, 1999

    WHY BE NORML?

    How a respected economist became St. Louis' No. 1 advocate for legalizing pot

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