BAKERSFIELD - Kern County Supervisors have approved an ordinance that will give sheriff’s deputies the power to view the sales records of businesses that dispense medical marijuana.The new ordinance will also allow deputies, who have a warrant, to find out the names of the patients using the drug.Originally, the sheriff department wanted access to all patient and financial records, as well as information on firearms being kept in the pot dispensaries.

The Jefferson County Sheriff's Department seized 180 pounds of marijuana at the border.Sheriff John Burns said a suspicious tractor trailer was pulled over at US Customs Monday.Officials said the marijuana has a street value of about $800,000. http://news10now.com/content/top_stories/default.asp?ArID=72675

The American Civil Liberties Union is stepping in to defend California's medical marijuana law in the wake of Thursday's raids of medical marijuana dispensaries in San Diego. The ACLU is asking the state court to force San Diego to comply with the state law. KPBS reporter Amy Isackson has details.California voters passed Proposition 215 a decade ago. It allows sick and dying patients to grow and use marijuana for medical purposes

Proposition 215 -- the medical marijuana initiative approved by voters ten years ago, has been subverted, abused and misused say law enforcement agencies our I-Team has spoken with.Prop. 215 is supposed to provide seriously ill people access to marijuana to help relieve their pain but a 10News investigation discovered just about anyone can get pot legally if they want.10 News became interested in medical marijuana after seeing a large number of advertisements for doctors prescribing pot. These pot docs’ ads appear every week in the San Diego Reader.

A successful international operation off the coast of Angola has prevented 22.5 tonnes of hashish from entering Canada, the RCMP says.After receiving a tip 18 months ago, RCMP in Montreal and Halifax launched 'Operation Chabanel' -- an investigation that reached all the way to the African country. http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20060605/rcmp_hashsting_060605/20060605?hub=TopStories

U.S. Attorney Carol Lam announced indictments Thursday charging six people with trafficking marijuana while posing as medical marijuana providers."These defendants were not caregivers, and they did not run medical dispensaries," Lam said. "These defendants are drug traffickers who were illegally selling marijuana in the middle of our commercial districts." http://www.kfmb.com/stories/story.56029.html

A Berkshire County teen is back in trouble with the law. It hasn't even been a year since Kyle Sawin was acquitted on charges of selling marijuana near school grounds. Now he's facing even more serious charges. http://www.capitalnews9.com/content/headlines/?ArID=183637&SecID=33

Dozens of people were arrested Wednesday morning after more than 350 police officers carried out a massive operation aimed at dismantling a Quebec drug-trafficking ring.Thirty-six people -- including two ex-police officers -- have been arrested so far in the raids. http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20060621/quebec_raid_060621/20060621?hub=Canada

DELANO - The Kern County Sheriff Department seized thousands of marijuana plants over the weekend with an estimated value of over $50 million. http://www.kget.com/news/local/story.aspx?content_id=01DBEBF1-7EA6-41F8-95B1-604140AEFA77

Dozens of bales of marijuana, with a street value of about $2 million, were found Sunday morning in a Southside Tucson home. http://kvoa.com/Global/story.asp?S=5046656&nav=HMO6HMaW