AUGUSTA, Maine -- A Maine trucker with a long history of driving infractions now stands charged with manslaughter in a crash that killed a Scarborough woman.District Attorney Evert Fowle said the new indictment came after tests showed the presence of marijuana in Scott Hewitt's bloodstream. http://www.wmtw.com/news/5511405/detail.html

The customer base was huge. And it apparently extended to the kinds of names that make the front page. Wiretap conversations reveal Network managers talking about marijuana deliveries to Viacom companies like MTV and Comedy Central. Raids to the first house that turned up information turned up pages with customer’s names. One of those names was someone so afraid of being found out, the person quickly cooperated --- and let agents monitor calls to the “Network’s” central base for marijuana orders for nearly a year.

Officer: "The reason I stopped you, you were going 78 in a 60." Officer: "I thought you looked familiar."It started out as a routine traffic stop.Then the officers learned Irvin had a warrant out for his arrest for failing to pay a traffic fine.Officer: "I've got some bad news for you, you have some warrants out for your arrest."During a search of his car police found a drug pipe with a plastic bag containing marijuana residue.Officer: "Im not charging you for the weed, I'm charging you for the paraphernalia."

Kern County Board of Supervisors will be voting on the approval of medical marijuana cards for residents on Tuesday.A new program, Medical Marijuana Identification Card Program, will issue identification cards to qualified patients and allows them to grow, smoke and transport small amounts of pot for medical purposes. http://www.kget.com/news/local/story.aspx?content_id=A553CA99-BB4B-49CC-BEEE-AB24EEFF76EB

More than half a million dollars worth of pot is off the streets. It's pot said to be four to five times more potent than the normal marijuana.It was grown inside two houses, thanks to a very sophisticated system. http://www.kxan.com/Global/story.asp?S=4205587&nav=0s3d

CNN) -- Singapore's government hanged an Australian man for drug trafficking early Friday, hours after making an exception to prison policy by letting the condemned man's mother hold her son's hand one last time. http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/asiapcf/12/01/singapore.execution/

(CBS4) DENVER A Denver man cited for possessing marijuana wants to take his case to court saying he believes he's protected under Initiative 100. http://cbs4denver.com/topstories/local_story_336003319.html

Drug enforcement officers in British Columbia's Lower Mainland are seeing a budding trend when it comes to marijuana production -- where there's a grow, there's often a gun.According to Cpl. Scott Rintoul, RCMP drug and organized crime awareness coordinator for Vancouver, 10 per cent of all busted grow ops are found to have weapons. In the old days weapons were often things like shovels and bats, he said, but today's growers are more likely to carry firearms instead.

Singapore's High Commissioner to Australia, Joseph Koh, says there is no chance of a last minute reprieve for convicted drug smuggler Van Nguyen, who is due to be executed on Friday. http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200511/s1520247.htm

Secret tunnels and stolen power have been uncovered as police unravel a sophisticated cannabis growing operation linked to a top fashion designer.Jason Crawford, 35, from the Insidious Fix clothing label has appeared in the Auckland District Court charged with cultivating cannabis and allowing a premises to be used for the purpose of cannabis cultivation. http://tvnz.co.nz/view/page/411423/631275