Marijuana the Super Bowl storyline that won't go away

Filed under: Seattle Drug Abuse

Only two states currently allow legal recreational use of marijuana — Colorado and Washington, the home states of the AFC and NFC champions — so use of the drug as a talking point in Super Bowl Week is little surprise. On Monday, Seattle Seahawks …
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Scientology reaches out to make city drug-free

Filed under: Seattle Drug Abuse

Staff reporter. Queen Anne's Church of Scientology (300 W. Harrison St.) has long held the goal to make Seattle drug-free with its drug education and prevention programs. … It's “intimately connected to the enormous rise of prescription-drug abuse …
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Vigilante groups: We're in major gang-held city

Filed under: Seattle Drug Abuse

APATZINGAN, Mexico (AP) — Vigilantes who have driven a quasi-religious drug cartel from a series of towns in western Mexico entered a gang-held city on Saturday and were working with government forces to clear it of cartel gunmen, a leader of the …
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Bellevue police chief to retire April 15

Filed under: Seattle Drug Abuse

Seattle won't be the only city shopping for a new police chief this year: Bellevue's city manager announced today that on April 15 Bellevue Police Chief Linda Pillo will retire, 35 years after she entered public service. … Her career is full of …
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