The seizure of 30,000 marijuana plants Friday on land belonging to the Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin constituted a raid on an unlawful marijuana grow operation and not the destruction of an industrial hemp crop as the tribe asserts, a federal prosecutor said.

Gregory J. Haanstad, U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin said the plants weighed several thousand pounds.

Federal agents descended upon County Road M west of Suring in Menominee County on Friday morning with front-end loaders to place the plants into county highway department trucks, WBAY-TV in Green Bay reported.

Agents worked at several locations while Menominee County sheriff's deputies stood guard in tactical gear with assault rifles, according to a post on the station's website.

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A Eureka man was sentenced Friday to seven years and three months in prison and ordered to pay $17,000 in restitution for conspiring to manufacture and possess with intent to distribute marijuana and for depredation of public lands and resources, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.

According to court documents, Arturo Alcazar-Tapia, 22, and his brother, Isidro Alcazar?Tapia, 26, both of Eureka, conspired to grow more than 20,000 marijuana plants at two sites in the Shasta-Trinity National Forest in Trinity County.

I have met a lot of cannabis industry investors over the years, and they almost always leave a bad taste in my mouth. They always give me the ‘we don’t want you, we just want your idea’ vibe, which has left me pretty jaded with the industry (which I’m sure people can tell from some of my articles). I don’t claim to be a genius, but I know I’m not stupid. I know what The Weed Blog is, what it can be, and what it will take to get there.

More Americans support legalizing marijuana than they approve of the sitting president, or support any of the 2016 presidential candidates. On Wednesday, Gallup released the results of its latest poll on pot sentiment, and it showed that majority of Americans — 58 percent — favored legalization for the third consecutive year. Younger folks were more enthusiastic about it than older folks. But older folks are way more supportive than retirees in previous polls. 

SAN DIEGO — Authorities seized 12 tons of marijuana and arrested 22 people after discovering one of the longest cross-border tunnels between the U.S. and Mexico, officials said Thursday.

The passage connecting warehouses in San Diego and Tijuana, Mexico, was about 2,400 feet (730 metres) long and 30 feet (nine metres) deep. It was lit, ventilated and equipped with a rail system — hallmarks of the most sophisticated tunnels found along the border.

Near-simultaneous police stings on Wednesday resulted in six arrests in San Diego and 16 in Mexico. Authorities recovered two tons of marijuana in the U.S. and 10 tons in Mexico.

U.S. authorities said smugglers tried to move the first load of drugs through the tunnel on Wednesday but that nothing got through undetected.

spite declaring war against heroin, Harford County Executive Barry Glassman is not concerned that the arrival of medical marijuana in Maryland will usher in a slippery slope for more cannabis use.

As a state senator last year, Glassman supported bills allowing medical marijuana and the decriminalization of small amounts of the drug.

That support puts him at odds with Harford County Sheriff Jeffrey Gahler and Joe Ryan, the county's Drug Control Policy Director, who have called the state's approval of medical pot a very bad idea.

A proposed marijuana legalization initiative backed by former Facebook president and Napster co-founder Sean Parker could allow Californians 21-and-over to possess an ounce of pot and grow six marijuana plants while creating a regulated cannabis industry with a 15 percent tax on retail marijuana sales.

A 51-page October 14 draft on the much-awaited initiative, obtained by The Bee today, appears to build upon regulations signed by Gov. Jerry Brown this month to impose state oversight on California’s existing medical marijuana industry. The draft, connected with Parker’s name, has circulated as fine-tuning on the measure continues.

Jason Kinney, a spokesman for Parker’s group, declined to authenticate the draft.

MILWAUKIE, Ore. (AP) - Marijuana stores would be prohibited from selling both recreational and medical marijuana and pot could not be used on site under regulations considered Thursday by the Oregon Liquor Control Commission.

The OLCC is expected to approve more than 70 pages of rules that will govern Oregon's retail marijuana system once it's fully operational next year. While marijuana stores began selling to adults 21 and older earlier this month, they're operating under temporary authority from the medical marijuana program. By 2017, companies producing or selling marijuana to the general population will have to abide by the OLCC's regulations for health, safety and security.

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Toward the end of the first Democratic debate last week, the moderator, Anderson Cooper, brought up the topic of marijuana with a joke. “Some of the candidates have tried marijuana, as have pretty much — probably everybody in this room,” he said. The largely white, upper-middle-class audience laughed. Of course they had.

There is a lot of myth and misconception out there about the use of marijuana and while if you abuse it there can be bad side effects, the same rings true for alcohol, prescription drugs, cheeseburgers and just about anything else on the planet.

Marijuana is now being widely accepted as having medicinal properties and even the mainstream media are starting to accept that it is not just something for teenage no hopers, who want to spend all of their waking hours getting baked.