Professional footballer Jay Emmanuel-Thomas has been sacked from Greenock Morton FC after he appeared in court charged with orchestrating the attempted importation of drugs.
Made-in-America marijuana is on a roll. More than half the states have now voted to permit pot for recreational or medical use, most recently Oregon, Alaska and the District of Columbia.
The Obama administration's drug czar admitted Wednesday that locking people up won't keep them from using drugs, but he stopped short of renouncing punitive policies that have made America's long war on drugs widely unpopular.
For years the country was largely untouched by the brutal cartels that control the narco trade in Mexico. But an eight-year-old boy is proof those days are over