I don't know why, but every time I hear about someone who wants marijuana legalized, the first thought that comes to my mind is, "Oh boy, another marijuana smoker didn't get his munchies so now he has to pick on the government."

Seriously though, my favorite thing to do to potheads is to cut in front of them in the line at 7-Eleven at about 1:30 in the morning; they are so polite even though I'm a bit rude! Try that at one o'clock in the afternoon and people will tell you to get in the back of the line. People are rude when they aren't high.

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A three-month Reno Gazette-Journal investigation found that methamphetamine's grip on the Truckee Meadows has become a stranglehold.

Across the country, newspapers, magazines and TV shows have sounded a warning call about the next great drug "epidemic" to strike the U.S. -- meth.

In August last year, a Newsweek cover story called meth "America's Most Dangerous Drug" and described it as a "plague" that has "quietly marched across the country and up the socioeconomic ladder." The New York Times said "meth makes crack look like child's play," and The Oregonian in Portland has printed close to 300 stories on meth in an ongoing investigation. Indeed, it's hard to find a state in the country where a leading newspaper has not reported on the growing peril of methamphetamine.

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They hugged. They cried. They slapped each other on the back, gazed up to heaven and smiled.

Then five Colombian sailors acquitted Friday of trying to smuggle nearly 5 tons of cocaine aboard a rusty fishing trawler surrounded two other crew mates who were convicted and held them in a tearful embrace.

Those two face 10 years to life in prison. They are the captain of the trawler Rebelde, Hemino Ruiz Ibardo, and Angel Quinones, accused of being a frontman for Colombia's Cali drug cartel.

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