Friday, April 09, 2010
Ky. Receives National Award
KENTUCKY....
The Kentucky Marijuana Eradication Initiative, a program that has successfully destroyed millions of marijuana plants growing in eastern Kentucky received a national award this week in Washington, D.C., from the federal Office of National Drug Control Policy. Kyle Edelen, spokesman for the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Kentucky, says the eradication team cut down 333,000 plants in 2009, down from the 1 million cut in 1990 when the initiative began. In 2007, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District started the "Up in Smoke" program, which combined aggressive federal prosecutions with significant prison time for those who grow marijuana..
The Kentucky Marijuana Eradication Initiative, a program that has successfully destroyed millions of marijuana plants growing in eastern Kentucky received a national award this week in Washington, D.C., from the federal Office of National Drug Control Policy. Kyle Edelen, spokesman for the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Kentucky, says the eradication team cut down 333,000 plants in 2009, down from the 1 million cut in 1990 when the initiative began. In 2007, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District started the "Up in Smoke" program, which combined aggressive federal prosecutions with significant prison time for those who grow marijuana..
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