Longtime Utah attorney Walter 'Bud' Ellett dies
During a 15-year-period, Ellett oversaw the prosecution of some of Utah's most infamous killers, including Mark Hofmann, who murdered two people with home-made bombs; Roberto Arguelles, who kidnapped and killed three teenage girls and a school janitor; …
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Testing medical pot in a legal vacuum
By Joe Mozingo / Los Angeles Times LOS ANGELES — The tech broke the bud of marijuana into small flakes, measuring 200 milligrams into a vial. He had picked up the strain, Ghost, earlier that day from a dispensary in the Valley and guessed by its …
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Smoke & Mirrors: Is GOP Candidate Mitt Romney Down With Legal Bud? [VIDEO]
… marijuana — with their doctor's approval. [See video, below.] But, instead of answering him … Mitt asked him if he'd tried synthetic cannibis. Duuuuuude, hold up! Does this mean Mitt likes him some legal bud? mitt – romney – pot – 2012 – 02 – 17.
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Testing pot in a legal vacuum
Seeb put his marijuana buds through a coffee grinder to homogenize samples for five local labs. One was a mobile lab. A young woman showed up with a gas chromatograph in a yellow suitcase and a tank of helium gas. "She had Rainbow Brite make-up, …
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