Va. Man Receives Prison Time for Drug Possession
Va. man receives prison time for drug possession
Ghasib N. Madi, 27, for whom records list an address in Surry, Va., pleaded guilty to a charge of possession of a controlled substance that accused him of having heroin on Sept. 11. He entered the same plea to a misdemeanor theft charge accusing him of …
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NYC subway vigilante Goetz charged in drug case
NEW YORK (AP) – Subway vigilante Bernie Goetz, who ignited a national furor over racism and gun control after he shot four panhandling youths on a train in the 1980s, has been charged with misdemeanor sale and possession of marijuana, authorities said …
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DC Poised To Make Big Pot Move
"We have hundreds of young black men, black boys, being locked up, for simple possession of a couple bags of marijuana," said Democratic Councilmember Marion Barry, one of the bill's sponsors. "We don't want to be proud of the wrong kind of thing here.
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