BUD BUSTED WITH BARELY A BUD

NEW SMYRNA BEACH, Fla. —

David Faustino, who played Bud Bundy on the TV series "Married with Children," was arrested on marijuana and disorderly intoxication charges.

Police said they spotted Faustino, 33, and his wife, Andrea, 31, at an intersection late Friday night. Faustino reportedly tried to climb out the car window, then opened the door.

The actor tried to walk away when police confronted the couple, authorities said. The officer smelled alcohol on Faustino's breath and found a plastic bag with a gram of marijuana in his pocket, police said.

Faustino was booked into Volusia County jail and released Saturday.

Volusia County court records did not list an attorney for Faustino. A telephone message left after hours by The Associated Press with the actor's public relations firm was not immediately returned.

Faustino filed for divorce in February from his wife in Los Angeles, citing irreconcilable differences.

"Married With Children" ran on the Fox network from 1987 to 1997.


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HEALTH FOOD STORES CASHING IN ON HEMP

LA TIMES - Soy's new competition: hemp

Breads, bars and milk are flying off the shelves, but excitement is outpacing evidence.

By Janet Cromley, Times Staff Writer
May 14, 2007

Like a bloodhound, Gira Balistreri is racing through the palatial Whole Foods Market in El Segundo, sniffing out some of her favorite foods.

A new employee at the 65,000-square-foot flagship store, she goes directly to several shelves of hemp shakes and snacks, then trots over to tidy rows of hemp butter and oil, then rushes down an aisle and snaps up a fresh package of hemp tortillas on her way to the hemp bars, hemp bread and hemp bagels.

"Hemp," she says excitedly, "is just an awesome seed."

Balistreri isn't alone in her devotion. In the last two years, sales of hemp food products in markets and grocery stores rose by more than 50%, propelling the unassuming seed to an $8.6-million industry, according to SPINS, a market research and consulting firm for the natural products industry.

Hemp foods began filtering into grocery stores about five years ago, after the 1998 legalization of industrial hemp farming in Canada. The U.S. currently prohibits commercial cultivation of industrial hemp, but allows the import of seeds, oil, flour and other byproducts to be manufactured into ready-to-eat foods in the U.S.

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STEPHANIE LANDA EXERCISES HER PRISON WRITES

A sixty year old victim of the drug war details the scary prison life she now endures.

A Day in the Life of a Medical Marijuana POW

After dozing off for the first time, the midnight count starts. Guards with heavy boots stomp by, wielding flashlights and shining them into your eyes to count bodies. Imagine dozing off again, then waking frantically at one a.m. to the loudest buzz that it makes your ears ring as everyone yells fire. Over one hundred groggy, sleepy women stumble down the stairs, side by side.

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Washburn decriminalizes small marijuana possession

5/5/2007
Washburn has passed a city ordinance that might have people facing tickets instead of handcuffs if they’re caught with marijuana. Danielle Kaeding reports.

The new ordinance keeps people with a joint out of the joint. Washburn Assistant Police Chief Jeremy Clapero says it just gives them a different option on how to deal with pot users as opposed to the previous approach. “They were arrested on the spot and brought to jail—they were booked into the jail and then they would be at some point released and appear in court on that charge. Now there’s a situation where they can get a ticket with the fine amount and released.


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PROSECUTORS PULL NO PUNCHES WITH PARIS

Paris Hilton is sentenced to 45 days in jail

By Andrew Blankstein and Francisco Vara-Orta, Times Staff Writers
4:56 PM PDT, May 4, 2007

Celebrity heiress Paris Hilton today was sentenced to 45 days in jail for violating her probation in a reckless-driving case.

A Los Angeles judge handed down the sentence after prosecutors contended in a two-hour hearing that Hilton had violated her probation when she was ticketed in late February for driving a blue Bentley Continental GTC on Sunset Boulevard with a suspended license. Hilton, who said her aides did not tell her she could not drive, and her attorneys argued that it was a mistake and that her action did not warrant a jail sentence.

But Superior Court Judge Michael T. Sauer rejected Hilton's plea, ordering her to report to Los Angeles County Jail on June 5. If she doesn't appear, the jail the sentence would rise to 90 days.

Hilton appeared stunned by the ruling and began to cry. Hilton's mother also began to show her displeasure visibly, shaking her head -- and had be warned by a court official to stop.

R.I. lawmakers advance medical marijuana bill

By Associated Press
Thursday, May 3, 2007 - Updated: 06:05 AM EST

PROVIDENCE, R.I. - House lawmakers voted 49-12 on Wednesday to permanently extend a program permitting the chronically ill to possess and use marijuana for pain relief in Rhode Island.
Rhode Island became the eleventh state in the country last year to decriminalize marijuana for medical purposes. The program will end on June 30 unless lawmakers pass bills making it permanent.
The state Senate is planning to vote on a similar bill on Thursday. To become law, one of the bills must be adopted by both chambers.
Under the program, 267 patients and 277 caregivers have received state licenses to each possess up to 12 marijuana plants and 2.5 ounces of the drug in a usable form, said Andrea Bagnall Degos, a spokesman for the Department of Health.
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