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Newsbrief:
Dionne
Warwick
Busted
for
Marijuana
at
Airport
Amidst
Heightened
Airline
Security
5/17/02
Though the drug war intrudes
most often in the lives of the economically ordinary, every now and then
a rich celebrity gets "popped" for possession. The latest was singer
Dionne Warwick, a 61-year-old grandmother, who was detained Sunday at Miami
International Airport after Comair security personnel found 11 suspected
joints in her lipstick case. She was charged with possession of less
than five grams of marijuana, ordered to appear in court at a later date,
and released. She missed her flight.
While only anecdotal evidence
exists -- DRCNet could find no source for numbers on people arrested carrying
personal amounts of drugs through airports -- the occasional wire service
report or celebrity bust suggests that more drug possessors are being caught
as the nation's airports remain on high alert. The topic certainly
made the rounds at last month's NORML conference, where at one unofficial
meeting, several faces turned pale when the announcement went out that
"They're busting people with pot in their crotch at San Francisco airport."
Many cannabis aficionados
had favored the crotch-carry, while others swore by stuffing it in the
checked baggage. Still others preferred not to mess with airport
security at all, either sending supplies to their destinations by courier
or hooking up once they hit town.
But not everyone has figured
it out. On the same day that Warwick was arrested in Miami, authorities
at the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport evacuated the
airport after a male passenger (unnamed in the wire report) was busted
for marijuana after a random gate search. The marijuana-carrying
passenger told airport security he thought he had a penknife in his luggage,
but none was found. Thus the evacuation and thus the wire service
story. But most airport marijuana possession busts don't make the
news. Caveat aviator.
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Issue #237, 5/17/02
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