3/17/2010 GRAND JUNCTION (KJCT) -- We're learning more about the efforts to keep our Western Slope census workers healthy and safe. This comes after several employees complained of feeling sick. Then news broke that police found more than one thousand marijuana plants growing in the office next door. Some employees complained of headaches or other symptoms saying its from a chemical odor coming from next door. But census officials don't expect this to affect their work.

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BY SARA GOLDENBERG 3/10/2010 GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (KJCT)- An odor leaking into the Grand Junction U.S. Census office led police to a forest of marijuana plants growing next door. Police executed a search warrant Tuesday night at an industrial complex off of Patterson Road. A tip led police to a suite in that building, where they found more than one thousand marijuana plants.

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3/27/2005 A lengthy hearing in 9th District Court in Glenwood Springs could become a landmark case in Colorado constitutional law. Judge James Boyd heard arguments last week for the dismissal of a medical marijuana case in which defendant Jennifer Ryan's attorney Kris Hammond maintained that the evidence - 131 marijuana plants - were willfully destroyed by members of the Two Rivers Drug Enforcement Team in violation of the Colorado Constitution. Members of the task force admitted they destroyed the plants when they seized them on the evening of Aug. 2, 2004, at a Rifle residence.

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