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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 >>
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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 >>
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February 23, 2012
Missouri Meth Lab Seizures Hit New Record; State Leads Nation Again
Confiscated meth equipment.Once again, Missouri has the dubious distinction of leading the nation in the number of meth labs seized in 2011. Law enforcement uncovered 2,096 labs in Missouri last year, an increase of six percent over the 1,960 discovered in 2010. Tennessee, Kentucky, Indiana and O ... More >>
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January 27, 2012
Shake-and-Bake Meth Becomes Run-and-Gun
Bootheel Drug Task Force investigators were in Steele, MO, earlier this week watching a farm house suspected of being an illegal drug manufacturing operation when a vehicle left. The agents pursued the vehicle, which stopped in the middle of the road and then disgorged its driver, who took off on ... More >>
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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 >>
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December 29, 2011
Prison Reform Would Save Missouri Taxpayers Millions, Bipartisan Report Says
Since 1990, Missouri's spending on inmates has tripled to more than $660 million, and the state's prison population has doubled. While the state's overall general fund has grown by 14 percent over the last decade, the Department of Corrections' budget has grown by 39 percent. For all the spendi ... More >>
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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 >>
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October 27, 2011
Obama's War on Weed
In a strange about-face, the president tries to hack medical marijuana off at the knees
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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 >>
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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 >>
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August 4, 2011
Angela Halliday was a junkie. Does that make her a murderer?
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 >>
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July 25, 2011
Missourians Are More Sober Than Rest of U.S., Study Shows
For those who think Missouri is home to a bunch of meth-makers, heroin addicts and beer swillers, the most recent national statistics out of Washington show that, surprisingly, this is far from being true. In fact, when crunching the latest data for both drugs and alcohol, Missouri ranks eith ... More >>
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July 18, 2011
Charlie Sheen's Ex Brooke Mueller to Kick Her Habit With ... Ibogaine
courtesy of the Riverfront TimesShock the Junkie: It's Brooke Mueller's turn, reports TMZ.com.You gotta love those crackerjack reporters at TMZ.com. Not only are they soo all over the Charlie Sheen saga -- they've actually stayed on top of the equally tragic tale of the mother of his surrogate-sp ... More >>
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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 >>
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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 >>
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April 25, 2011
Dump Unwanted Prescription Drugs This Saturday
In recent years, the act of raiding mom and dad's liquor cabinet has spun off into raiding grandma's medicine cabinet for kids who want to get buzzed. "Pharm parties" have cropped up across the nation, involving prescription drugs like Oxycodone, Fentanyl and Percoset. Opiate-drug addictions, ... More >>
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April 13, 2011
Southern Illinois Prosecutor Vows to Get Tough on Heroin
We've been reporting about the rise in heroin overdoses in the region, and one of the people who's come out strongly against the epidemic is Stephen Wigginton, U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Illinois. Last month, Wigginton announced that his office had begun to treat overdose case ... More >>
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April 7, 2011
St. Louis County Police Enact Tougher Policy for Fighting Heroin
Tim Fitch, chief of the St. Louis County Police Department, stood up at a press conference this morning and recounted the words of a local heroin user who was describing the very first time he ingested it: "I saw God." That user, Fitch says, needed to see God "again and again and again," so ... More >>
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March 30, 2011
Burger King Giving Away 272 Million Chicken Tenders
There's a lot more where that came from!Burger King has reformulated its chicken tenders to include actual chicken with a new shape and seasoning for the breading. To promote these new tenders, the perpetual fast-food bridesmaid is mailing coupons good for free four-piece servings. Watch your mai ... More >>
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March 28, 2011
Meth-Fighting Missouri Pseudoephedrine Ban Could Face Filibuster
Sudafed shouldn't need a 'scrip, says State Senator Rob Schaaf.In hopes of combating the state's never-ending meth problem, state legislators have been pushing a bill to make cold medicines that include pseudoephedrine available by prescription only.That would include Sudafed, Claritin and a host ... More >>
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March 9, 2011
Carlos Boles: Felon Who Killed U.S. Marshal Had Lengthy Rap Sheet
Fox 2Carlos BolesAs you've likely heard by now, one of the U.S. marshals shot yesterday while trying to arrest a suspect yesterday in St. Louis on drug and assault charges is now dead. John Perry, 48, succumbed to a bullet wound around 7 p.m. Tuesday at Saint Louis University Hospital. Another ma ... More >>
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March 1, 2011
Missouri Leads Nation in Meth Lab Busts -- Again
Photo: Jennifer SilverbergMeth lab detritus seized last year in Franklin County.For the tenth year in a row, Missouri led the nation in the number of meth lab seizures last year. In 2010, Missouri law enforcement busted 1,960 meth labs, a 10 percent increase over the 1,774 busts in 2009 and a 53 ... More >>
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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 >>
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January 4, 2011
Destroyer, The War on Drugs Open the Luminary Center for the Arts' 2011 Season
In the past two years, the Luminary Center for the Arts' Elevator Music Series has brought tons of up-and-coming bands to town -- including (but not limited to) Javelin, Warpaint, Abe Vigoda and Menomena. The 2011 edition of this occasional music series is upholding tradition: The first show of the ... More >>
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December 15, 2010
Dominic Orlando: De Soto Man Busted for Home Meth Lab
Dominic Orlando: His chemistry skills caught up with him yesterday.Dominic Orlando, 47, was arrested by Jefferson County Sheriff's deputies yesterday and charged with possession of chemicals with intent to distribute.And, this being Missouri, we're not talking about calcium chloride or ferrous su ... More >>
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November 30, 2010
Jay Nixon and Chris Koster Propose Pseudoephedrine Prescription to Cure Missouri's Meth Problem
Image viaLet's hope meth cooks don't have health insuranceThe Show-Me State's governor and attorney general announced today that they support a law to require a doctor's prescription to obtain pseudoephedrine, an ingredient found in several types of cold medicine that can be used to manufacture m ... More >>
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November 18, 2010
Ibogaine is a hallucinogen that has helped addicts kick their drug habits. Is it the trip that does the trick?
Image viaLet's hope meth cooks don't have health insuranceThe Show-Me State's governor and attorney general announced today that they support a law to require a doctor's prescription to obtain pseudoephedrine, an ingredient found in several types of cold medicine that can be used to manufacture m ... More >>
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November 18, 2010
How Realistic is the Ibogaine Episode of Law & Order: SVU?
Image viaA hallucinogenic cure for drug addiction raises eyebrows -- cast of SVU includedThis week's feature story, "Shock the Junkie" takes an in-depth look at ibogaine, a potent hallucinogenic drug that's derived from the roots of an African shrub and used as a treatment for drug addiction.Ibog ... More >>
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November 8, 2010
Missouri on Pace to Lead Nation in Meth Lab Seizures -- Again
Image ViaA "shake and bake" lab.It's looking like 2010 will mark the 10th consecutive year that Missouri leads the nation in the number meth labs confiscated by police. As the Southeast Missourian reports today, Missouri law enforcement has seized more than 1,400 meth labs through September -- an ... More >>
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August 24, 2010
Seven Arrested in Jefferson County Meth Lab Bust
Meth: It does a body bad.A meth lab seizure in Jefferson County last week has led to drug charges against five area men and two females. According to the Jefferson County Sheriff's Department, deputies arrived last Thursday to a residence in the 12000 block of Big Pine Place in rural Desoto aft ... More >>
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July 28, 2010
Steven Martin: The Second-Most Disturbing Mugshot You'll See This Week
Jesse Driskill, meet Steven Martin:Image sourceWink Wink Steven Martin is in the ClinkMartin (definitely not the banjo-strumming comedian, as the immaculate mugshot above makes clear) was indicted earlier this week for conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine. A whole lot of methamphetamine.
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July 8, 2010
Whose Relative Embarrassed Them More this Week -- Francis Slay's or Charlie Dooley's?
Dooley and Slay: Not the black sheep of the family. So, I'm thinking St. Louis County Executive Charlie Dooley is probably going to win this one, but we'll throw it out to you -- the reader -- to decide. Dooley and his city counterpart, Mayor Francis Slay, both tangentially made news yesterday fo ... More >>
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June 23, 2010
Shots and Books
Dooley and Slay: Not the black sheep of the family. So, I'm thinking St. Louis County Executive Charlie Dooley is probably going to win this one, but we'll throw it out to you -- the reader -- to decide. Dooley and his city counterpart, Mayor Francis Slay, both tangentially made news yesterday fo ... More >>
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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 >>
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June 4, 2010
Missouri Poised to Lead Nation in Meth Lab Busts For Fourth Straight Year
Courtesy of the Missouri State Highway PatrolMissouri busted 1,776 meth labs last year and we're on pace for more than 1,800 in 2010.Missouri has already done the three-peat -- leading the nation in meth lab seizures for three consecutive years, including a whopping 1,774 busts last year, nearly ... More >>
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May 26, 2010
Alderman Shane Cohn Puts St. Louis Marijuana Decriminalization Rumor To Rest
Shane Cohn: "Certainly the war on drugs has not been the most successful thing in world."Turns out 56 percent of Daily RFT readers were right: Shane Cohn is the St. Louis alderman considering marijuana decriminalization in St. Louis. Well, sort of.Last week Mayor Slay's website featured several " ... More >>
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May 26, 2010
Dennis Powell: Hannibal Man Sentenced for Drugs Busted Trying to Bring Pot to Prison
hannibal.netDennis PowellIf 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 >>
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May 20, 2010
Are Some Missouri Counties Ignoring Meth Labs?
Provided by the Missouri State Highway PatrolMissouri meth labs in 2009. Click for larger image.While the focus of this week's RFT feature is meth lab explosions and the impact that injured meth cooks are having on hospitals across the Midwest, the story also touches on the reasons why meth has r ... More >>
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May 19, 2010
The potentially explosive "shake-and-bake" method is burning its way through meth land
Provided by the Missouri State Highway PatrolMissouri meth labs in 2009. Click for larger image.While the focus of this week's RFT feature is meth lab explosions and the impact that injured meth cooks are having on hospitals across the Midwest, the story also touches on the reasons why meth has r ... More >>
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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 >>
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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 >>
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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 MissouriRiverfront 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 >>
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April 6, 2010
RFT Founder Ray Hartmann to Speak at Missouri NORML Conference on Saturday
Ray Hartmann at the University of Missouri, his alma materIf 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 >>
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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 >>
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February 3, 2010
Missouri: Nation's Meth Capital, Again
Did ya here? We're No. 1!Missouri has once again been ranked as the nation's biggest meth-producing state based on the number of drug labs busted last year. According to Missouri Highway Patrol figures published today in the Post-Dispatch, law enforcement seized 1,774 meth labs in 2009 -- up 20 p ... More >>
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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 SylviaLast 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 >>
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October 14, 2009
Scary Numbers Part II: Man Has 11 Kids, Gets 13 Years In Jail, For Selling 62.4 Grams of Crack
www.flickr.com/photos/skyzyxA week ago we crunched the numbers on Christopher Elders, the 30 year-old Affton man who posed as a 17 year-old in order to sodomize a 14 year-old girl. The criminal testing our math skills this time around is Lewis Lawson of East St. Louis. Lawson, 32, was sentenced t ... More >>
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September 18, 2009
St. Louis NORML Chapter Holding "Prince of Pot" Protest Tomorrow
www.seattleweekly.comMarc Emery: The Baron of the BongMarc 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 >>
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September 1, 2009
Oh, Meth! New Campaign Against Meth Use Hopefully as Catchy as Old One
As we reported last week, U.S. "Drug Czar" Gil Kerlikowske is in St. Louis today to unveil the White House Office of National Drug Policy's new anti-meth campaign. Here's hoping the campaign is as good as the last one featured here. Continue on to view the full press release of today's announ ... More >>
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August 27, 2009
U.S. Drug Czar to Unveil New Anti-Meth Campaign in Drug's Hotspot: St. Louis
Whatever your feelings about the Obama administration, you can't say that the president's office ignores St. Louis. Obama chose to visit the nearby suburb of Arnold for his 100th day in office. A couple month's later the prez returned to St. Louis to throw out the first pitch at the All-Star Game ... More >>
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