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Get Busted for Marijuana, Work as Police Informant, Get Killed? How the Drug War Turns Arrests Into Deaths

Tony Newman, AlterNet. January 13, 2012.

No one has ever died from smoking marijuana. But getting busted with a small amount of marijuana has led to countless tragic deaths.

Florida Will Pay $2.6 Million for Wrongful Death of 23-Year-Old Informant Murdered During a Sting

Phillip Smith, Drug War Chronicle. January 9, 2012.

After Rachel Hoffman was busted and agreed to become a snitch in 2008, Tallahassee police sent her out into a dangerous new world, until a "buy-bust" sting took her life.

The Killing of Rachel Hoffman and the Tragedy That Is Pot Prohibition

Paul Armentano, AlterNet. July 29, 2008.

Police caught Hoffman with pot but promised to drop charges if she agreed to go undercover in a drug bust. She was killed soon afterward.