I was appalled when I read this story on NORML. It seems a 27 year old quadriplegic man died in jail, after being put there for a minor Marijuana charge. He was given improper health care and died as a result, here's a snippet from the article:

The victim, Jonathan Magbie, had been paralyzed from the neck down since the age of four, was unable to breath on his own, and required nursing care 20 hours a day.

Magbie was sentenced to spend ten days in jail on September 20, 2004 after pleading guilty to one charge of marijuana possession. Though prosecutors had recommended probation, the judge in the case ordered Magbie to serve jail time - noting that the defendant had told pre-sentence investigators that he would continue using marijuana because it made him feel better.

I hope the judge and the jail staff can live with the blood of Jonathan on their hands for the rest of their lives.

Two Humboldt County sheriff's deputies were involved in the fatal shooting of a suspect in a marijuana grow-op search on Wednesday. The officers were put on "administrative leave" as punishment, here's a snip:

The sheriff's department says the person who was killed confronted the deputies with a shotgun on land owned by the Pacific Lumber Company near Larabee Valley, about 30 miles east of Fortuna. One of the deputies fired his service weapon, striking the suspect.

This kind of thing happens a lot more than you'd think, we had police shoot and kill a teenager in my town this summer. The details on this story are not very clear, he did have a shotgun to protect his crop, but was he threatening the officers in any way?