Barry N. Cooper, a former narcotics law enforcement officer turned marijuana activist, said he was charged on Thursday with conducting private investigations without a license, a Class A misdemeanor.
CANNABIS CULTURE - Green Aid activists Angela Bacca and Ed Rosenthal go toe to toe with police in Columbia, Missouri over an excessive SWAT-style drug raid where cops killed the family dogs in front of a 7-year-old boy.
Columbia Police officer interviewed by Erica and Donald Warren of CoMoCitizens and Angela Bacca of Green Aid about SWAT-style drug raids in Missouri and beyond.
The city of Atlanta will pay $4.9 million to the family of Kathryn Johnston, a 92-year-old woman killed in a botched November 2006 drug raid, Mayor Kasim Reed's office announced Monday.
CANNABIS CULTURE - Why spend thousands of dollars on a complex grow-op security system when nature has already provided the perfect sentinel? Police in B.C. have raided an outdoor grow apparently patrolled and guarded by black bears.
Things haven't been going well for Dennis Peron lately. Peron, one of the authors of Proposition 215 -- the 1996 voter initiative legalizing marijuana for medical purposes in California -- is on the outs with some cannabis advocates for his staunch opposition to Proposition 19, which would legalize marijuana for recreational purposes.