Madeline Martinez, executive director of the Oregon chapter of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws, smells marijuana buds at the Cannabis Café.

Marijuana traffickers are taking advantage of our national postal service like never before, according to new statistics from the U.S. Postal Inspection Service.

The agency, which handles everything from mail fraud to parcel theft, reported a 400 percent increase in seizures of marijuana packages between 2007 and 2009. That amounts to more than 43,000 pounds of intercepted marijuana last year.

Despite the increase, the number of inspectors -- who comb packages with help from teams of sniffing dogs -- has held steady at around 1,600 nationwide. Read more.

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