...[a] lie." If only it were. According to data released yesterday in the FBI's annual Uniform Crime Report, police in 2007 arrested over 872,000 US citizens - that's nearly one out of every two Americans busted for illicit drugs -- for weed. (The raw data is available from the US Federal Bureau of Investigation here and here.) That figure is a five percent increase over the total number of Americans busted in 2006. It's more than three ...

.... There was a fraternity house atmosphere inside the Denver Minerals Management Service office. Gov't Officials Probed About Illicit Sex, Gifts Government officials handling billions of dollars in oil royalties engaged in illicit sex with employees of energy companies they were dealing with and received numerous gifts from them, federal ...

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...www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1829782,00.html), observed that legal coca cultivation and the illicit cocaine trade are not the same thing. Despite increased tolerance for coca growing by the Bolivian government under ... himself to become Bolivia's first indigenous chief executive -- reporter Jean Friedman-Rudovsky notes that interceptions of illicitly grown coca destined for cocaine labs are up by 30%% from 2007, and 11 tons of coca ...

... designated as one of the Attorney General's most wanted international drug trafficking organizational targets - one of only 46 in the world and the only one from Canada." "Hundreds of thousands of dollars of Emery's illicit profits are known to have been channeled to marijuana legalization groups active in the United States and Canada. Drug legalization lobbyists now have one less pot of money to rely on. ---- Catch up on what's...

... — by finding newsfeeds on foreign broadcasters’ Web sites and by watching clips of the ceremonies on YouTube and other sites. In response, NBC sent frantic requests to Web sites, asking them to take down the illicit clips and restrict authorized video to host countries. As the four-hour ceremony progressed, a game of digital whack-a-mole took place. Network executives tried to regulate leaks on the Web and shut down unauthorized video, ...

... multi-million dollar baseball game-fixing scandal that emerged in July 2005--an incident involving alleged gangsters and a number of CPBL teams--"made a lot of people lose faith in local baseball," he noted. Unfortunately, illicit gambling has been no stranger to the young Taiwanese league. The CPBL, in just its 17th year, has suffered repeated allegations of foul play involving gangs, corrupt politicians and crooked players over the ...

... 4, 10:12 pm, jupiter8...@gmail.com wrote: kuamemiab, The LaoPDR used illicit drug and the smuggling products derived from protected wildlife into the states ... One way in which traffickers, particularly ethnic Hmong people, disguised their illicit shipments was by melting raw opium and using it to dye ... Hmong in the US were still addicted to opium and used the illicit drug as if they were in their homeland, said Soubanh, ...

kuamemiab, The LaoPDR used illicit drug and the smuggling products derived from protected wildlife into the states to discredit the ... Srithirath. One way in which traffickers, particularly ethnic Hmong people, disguised their illicit shipments was by melting raw opium and using it to dye textiles for .... Elderly Hmong in the US were still addicted to opium and used the illicit drug as if they were in their homeland, said Soubanh, who is ...

... aurait peu de chances d’aboutir, le Conseil fédéral a bloqué les fonds Duvalier sur la base de la Constitution en 2002. Il voulait éviter que la place financière suisse ne serve de refuge à des valeurs acquises illicitement. En même temps, il chargeait le Département fédéral des affaires étrangères de soutenir l’État haïtien et la famille Duvalier dans la recherche d’une solution satisfaisante », précise le communiqué de l’Office ...