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Teen Mistakenly Texts a Sheriff While Looking for Weed
by Evilpig on September 3, 2010 | No Comments
A Montana teen looking to buy marijuana tried to text a drug dealer but hit the wrong number and instead hooked up with the county sheriff.
The message:
“Hey Dawg, do you have a $20 I can buy right now?”
The Independent Record of Helena reports that Sheriff Leo Dutton initially suspected a prank, but quickly realized it was the real deal and messaged back: “How much we talking?”
The sheriff then helped set up a meeting with an undercover drug officer who busted the buyer and a teen-age friend.
The newspaper said the teens “turned white and their knees began to wobble” when the detective showed his badge.
The officers decided not to issue a citation, the newspaper says, but instead got the teens’ parents involved.
“Trying to buy drugs is a crime, but it’s probably worse that they had to face their parents,” Dutton tells the paper.
Posted in News, Police, Weed Humor 
Tags: epic fail, marijuana, montana, Police, teen, text, undercover 
No Comments »Reddit Fights Back over Marijuana Legalization Ads
by Evilpig on August 28, 2010 | 2 Comments
reddit.com/r/trees
Quirky social-news site Reddit always seemed an unusual acquisition for Manhattan media giant Conde Nast, and it’s never been more evident: asked by Conde Nast overlords to stop running advertisements on behalf of advocates of California’s Proposition 19, which supports the legalization of marijuana, Reddit decided they’d do it anyway.
Because Conde Nast said its main concern was obtaining revenue from those controversial advocacy groups, Reddit’s solution was that they would simply run the ads for free.
“This was a decision made at the highest levels of Conde Nast,” an announcement from Reddit read. “Reddit itself strongly disagrees with it and, frankly, thinks it’s ridiculous that we’re turning away advertising money…We’re trying to convince Corporate that they’re making the wrong decision here, and we encourage the community to create a petition, so that your anger is organized in a way that will produce results.”
Conde Nast’s official response: “As a corporation, Conde Nast does not want to benefit financially from this particular issue.”
Reddit’s users, many of whom are outspoken marijuana legalization advocates themselves (Reddit operates a sub-site called “Trees,” devoted to weed-related news), had been up in arms over the decision. Dozens of users said that they would be instituting ad-blocking software in protest. Recently, pro-legalization ads have been making headlines because of the revelation that while Google’s policies are relatively liberal, Facebook will ban ads that contain images of “drug paraphernalia, or tobacco.” The iconic green cannabis leaf doesn’t make the cut.
This is the second time in fewer than two months that Reddit has vocally expressed dissatisfaction with its Conde Nast parentage. Last month, the site put out a call for user donations to help make changes, claiming that Conde Nast’s budget allotments to Reddit wouldn’t cover them.
Article via CNET
Feds Seize Marijuana Concealed in Tombstone
by Evilpig on August 23, 2010 | No Comments
When airport border guards in Cincinnati took a closer look at the tombstone for “Delroy Senior” last week, they found it offered more than kind words for the dearly departed.
More than 50 pounds of marijuana was packed inside the hollowed-out grave marker.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers say the discovery at the Cincinnati DHL express consignment operation is a first for Cincinnati, where they’ve found drugs packed into all sorts of objects but never one quite like this.
Customs spokesman Brian Bell said officers tagged the shipment as suspicious because they couldn’t figure out why anyone would send a tombstone from Jamaica to England, where one could be purchased without the cost of shipping it across the Atlantic. The shipment was on a connecting flight through the Cincinnati/Northern International Airport.
The officers discovered the tombstone was a concrete shell when they X-rayed it, and a drug-sniffing dog alerted when it got close to the stone.
Bell said efforts to find the stone’s sender – or the intended receiver – have failed because everyone involved used fake names and addresses.
“Everything came up as a dead end,” Bell said.
Article via Cincinnati.
Driving High on Marijuana Not an Impairment, Study Says
by Evilpig on August 18, 2010 | No Comments
Despite what the nation’s “Drug Czar” Gil Kerlikowske might say and what his office might promote, it’s being proven that driving under the influence of marijuana does not make you a dangerous driver. In fact, a new study shows that it makes virtually no difference in the driving abilities of most drivers.
Of course, that may not be saying much given the state of some highways in this nation, but at least the road hogs and blind spot lurkers don’t drive any worse while high.
Most of the studies for stoned and drunk driving were conducted in the 1970s. Driving simulators, measurement tools, and even drug potency were different then. Although studies into drunk driving have continued to the present, studies of marijuana’s effects on driving have not. A new study from researchers at the Olin Neuropsychiatry Research Center has found that marijuana’s effects on driving – including separating data between men and women – is negligible.1
The research is legitimate, double-blind, placebo-controlled and used 85 subjects (50 men, 35 women) on driving simulators. Subjects were tested sober and then shortly after having smoked either a 2.9% THC marijuana joint or an identical placebo.
The only measurable difference in driving between those who were sober when stoned was that they tended to slow down and drive slower than otherwise. Which any safety advocate will tell you is almost always a good thing.
Other studies conducted overseas, including one in Israel published in 2008,2 showed similar results.
These studies and their findings should call into question every “impaired driving” law in which marijuana is treated the same as alcohol and hard drugs.
Of course, as marijuana becomes more and more socially acceptable and laws regarding its use loosen or are eliminated, a review of laws that lump it in with other, much more impairing drugs should be conducted as well.
Article from CannaCentral
Police Steal $100,000 Which Smelled of Marijuana
by Evilpig on August 14, 2010 | 1 Comment
Although a search of a vehicle that yielded a backpack full of cash that smelled like marijuana was ruled invalid, the money was never returned to the vehicle’s occupants.
In June the appellate division of the state Superior Court ruled the search was invalid but many readers — including John Paff, who is chairman of the New Jersey Libertarian Party’s Open Government Advocacy Project — were curious as to what happened to the smelly money.
It was divided between the agencies involved in the case. The Hunterdon County Prosecutor’s Office got $25,197.60, the Readington Police Department $37,796.40 and the state kept the remaining $41,906.
Ricardo Webb and Brian Bennett of Georgia were arrested on May 5, 2005. According to police, at 2:26 a.m. a motorist called to tell them that a white Chevy Yukon with New York plates had been driving erratically on Route 202 before turning onto Old York Road near the Branchburg/Readington township line.
Patrolman Joe Greco spotted the SUV turning onto Pleasant Run Road and pulled it over after having to go 60 mph in a 25 mph zone. Greco reported that he searched the vehicle after smelling a “strong odor of raw marijuana” and found a black backpack with more than $100,000 stuffed inside.
Webb, who was also charged with careless driving, and Bennett, both denied owning the backpack.
A K-9 unit from the Somerset County Sheriff’s Office sniffed the Yukon for drugs. According to police, the drug dog “hit” on the bag of money, but no drugs were found. Webb’s defense attorney filed a motion to suppress the evidence because it was found without a warrant. The motion was granted, but the prosecutor appealed.
The appellate judges on June 17 affirmed the lower court’s decision. According to a spokesman for the Attorney General’s Office, the matter is under consideration for a possible appeal to the state Supreme Court.
As for the money, the attorney general filed a suit in Superior Court in Flemington seeking forfeiture shortly after Webb and Bennett were indicted on two counts of second-degree money laundering and conspiracy.
According to court documents obtained by Paff, the two men did not contest the forfeiture so the court granted the petition.
Medical Marijuana Patient Faces Life in Prison for a Half Ounce in Texas
by Evilpig on August 12, 2010 | No Comments
Chris Diaz is facing up to life in prison after being busted for 14 grams of weed and hash.
A Texas asthma sufferer who went to California for a medical marijuana recommendation and then got busted in June on a Texas highway with small amounts of marijuana and hashish is facing up to life in prison after being indicted by a Brown County grand jury.
He is charged with possession of a controlled substance with intent to deliver, a first-degree felony in the Lone Star State.
Chris Diaz, 20, has been jailed on $40,000 bond since the June 27 arrest. He was busted with 14 grams of weed and hash.
Under Texas law, possession of less than two ounces of marijuana is a Class B misdemeanor punishable by up to six months in jail, while possession of hashish is either a state jail felony punishable by up to two years for less than a gram, or a second-class felony punishable by up to 20 years if less than four grams, although probation is also possible. It is unclear exactly how much hash Diaz had.
Diaz was pulled over for an expired license tag while en route from California to Austin, and according to the DPS trooper’s report, could not produce a drivers’ license or proof of insurance. He was then arrested for failure to identify, and during a subsequent search, police found a small amount of hashish on his person. A search of the vehicle then turned up more hash and marijuana in pill bottle from a California medical marijuana provider.
The DPS report said the search also turned up a cell phone “containing text messages referring to drug sales” and a notebook with “drug and law writings.” Those are apparently the basis, legitimate or otherwise, for the drug distribution charge.
Texas does not have a medical marijuana law, and its authorities do not recognize having a recommendation from another state as a defense against prosecution.
Diaz has attracted supporters both inside Texas and nationally. The Texas Coalition for Compassionate Care and a group called I Am Sovereign are publicizing the case and pressuring Brown County officialdom. And the asthmatic Diaz sits in jail in Central Texas awaiting trial, without his medicine.
- Article from StoptheDrugWar.org.
Posted in Medicinal Marijuana, News, Police Tags: arrest, california, hash, marijuana, possession, prison, texas No Comments »Adults See Alcohol, Cigarettes Riskier Than Marijuana
by Evilpig on August 3, 2010 | No Comments
Americans view alcohol and cigarettes as more dangerous than marijuana.
A new Rasmussen Reports telephone survey finds that just 17% of Adults rate use of marijuana as riskier than drinking alcohol. Fifty percent (50%) say alcohol is more dangerous, while 26% rate the two as equally risky. These findings are consistent with a survey last August.
Even a majority of adults who drink alcohol rate it as more dangerous than marijuana. Those who never drink alcohol are more closely divided.
Similarly, 46% say smoking cigarettes is more dangerous than smoking pot. Twenty-four percent (24%) disagree and say marijuana use is more dangerous. One-in-four (25%) view the two as equally dangerous.
Twenty-six percent (26%) of adults say smoking cigarettes should be outlawed, while 42% think marijuana should remain an illegal drug. Americans are evenly divided over whether marijuana should be legalized in the United States, but most expect legalization to happen within the next decade.
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The survey of 1,000 Adults was conducted on July 21-22, 2010 by Rasmussen Reports. The margin of sampling error is +/- 3 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence. Field work for all Rasmussen Reports surveys is conducted by Pulse Opinion Research, LLC. See methodology.
Men feel more strongly than women that both alcohol and cigarettes are more dangerous than marijuana. Adults across all age groups share that belief, although younger Americans believe it even more strongly.
When it comes to alcohol, twenty percent (20%) of Americans drink several times a week, including nine percent (9%) who drink every day or nearly every day. Twenty-seven percent (27%) say they never drink.
Forty percent (40%) of Adults say they have smoked marijuana at some point in their lives. Eleven percent (11%) say they’ve smoked it in the past year. Those ages 18 to 29 are much more likely to have smoked marijuana in the past year than their elders.
Men drink more heavily than women. Twice as many married adults say they drink every day than unmarried adults, but unmarrieds are more than twice as likely as marrieds to have smoked pot in the past year. Those who say they’ve smoked marijuana drink more than those who have not tried pot.
- Press release from Rasmussen Reports.
Posted in Legalization, News, Random Tags: alcohol, health, Legalization, marijuana, poll, survey, tobacco No Comments »Intel Commercial, Marijuana Style [video]
by Evilpig on August 2, 2010 | No Comments
Ever see this commercial for Intel? How about if the main subject was replaced with weed?
Posted in Entertainment, Legalization, Random, Videos, Weed Humor Tags: commercial, funny or die, intel, marijuana, video No Comments »What a Legal Pot Economy Would Look Like [video]
by Evilpig on July 29, 2010 | 1 Comment
Very interesting video, watch it until the end.
Posted in Entertainment, Legalization, Videos Tags: cartoon, economy, legalize, marijuana, Police, tax and regulate marijuana, video 1 Comment »
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