1.   Last September a former police chief in the sleepy little valley town of Donna was arrested for taking payoffs from marijuana traffickers.

2.   Speaking by telephone from the Federal Penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kan., Mark Young, a convicted marijuana trafficker, said drugs were easy to come by.

3.   Rather than killing a few rivals at a time, as the big cocaine cartels do, marijuana traffickers wipe out entire extended families.

4.   The head of a family massacred near this Baja California town was a small-time marijuana trafficker who may have run afoul of more dangerous criminals, prosecutors said Friday.

5.   Dutch police sniffed out two British marijuana traffickers who gave themselves away by inadvertently burning part of their hidden cargo, police said Sunday.