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'Freeway’ Ricky Ross Speaks on Gary Webb, the CIA, and the Contra Warnew
Ricky Donnell “Freeway Ricky” Ross, the notorious Los Angeles crack dealer released from federal prison in September after serving 14 years, said he had no idea proceeds from his business helped fund CIA-backed counter-revolutionaries in Nicaragua.
Pasadena Weekly |
Kevin Uhrich |
05-03-2010 |
Drugs
The Racial Disparity of Pot Arrests in Pasadenanew
For the past five years, Pasadena police officers have arrested African Americans on marijuana charges at rates wildly disproportionate to Pasadena's demographics, according to a review by the Weekly of nearly four decades worth of arrest data.
Pasadena Weekly |
Jake Armstrong |
11-03-2009 |
Drugs
A Federal Drug Raid Turned a Comic into a Marijuana Missionarynew
During a stop on her way home from a radio interview last week, Tere Joyce found herself at the wrong end of a rifle, caught up in a surprise DEA raid on a medical marijuana dispensary.
Pasadena Weekly |
Joe Piasecki |
04-23-2007 |
Drugs
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