Another great WIN for the U.S. police state. Pathetic.

All the more reason to get this medical program enacted in every state across the country. Look at that poor old woman. She doesn't need to be in jail!!! What happened to the statute of limitations. This kind of thing makes me ashamed of my government!!!!! Shame, Shame, Shame Obama, this woman should be given a pardon.

Isn't there a statute of limitations?

I personally am starting to believe the Justice system is the criminal. Isn't it time to step up to 2010 and get a current perspective?

This is total bullshit. I predict the charges will be dropped when the state can't produce evidence and witnesses from thirty years ago.

OldUncleDave: only if she has her own lawyer. If she gets a public defender, the public defender will do everything in their power to get her to accept a plea bargain, which bypasses the right to trial in exchange for a lesser sentence.

What a stupid thing to spend tax dollars on! Please EVERYONE JOIN Norml or MPP or another marijuana-friendly organization and help get this legalized once & for all!

This is total bulls*** ... She looks real dangerous OMG! watch out for the stoner grannie... We really need to be wasting tax dollars on busting pot heads. They need to re-open all the old pot busts and bring those terrible people to justice! F**k me runnin, could our pot laws be anymore ridiculous?
Shame on you dea, or whoever is responsible for this.

The point is that she broke the law. Personally, I am happy the government is looking out for my safety (I am probably too dumb). Who knows how many lives that she has ruined. I hope this is her third strike and we spend tons of money to get her evil ass in prison for life. 1980 is the same time period that President Regan declared smoking one marijuana cigarette was equivalent to being on an island during an A-Bomb detonation. President Regan was not a total %$#^& though, because In late 1986, Ronald Reagan pardoned Junior Johnson for his moonshining felonies (he bragged of running in excess of 150 mph in the dark of night, to deliver his better than marijuana liquid). In conclusion, little old ladies with plants are EXTREMELY DANGEROUS, and should be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. For our safety that is.

I think its a shame if they need to spend that much money on a person that old with a warrent that old its a waste of time and money chase the real people who are hurting others , it crazy whay yhere doing to woman

Oh fuck you Better Than'u. I'd be happy if the government locked up ignorant assholes like you. You should have been sterilized at birth.

lol

Im pretty sure that was sarcasm....

THE ONLY THING AMERICA IS #1 AT IS BEING AN ASSHOLE

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I live 5 miles from the US border and cannot enter the US because of a pot possession charge from 1980 (31 years ago). I was 18 at the time and am 49 now. What's worse is I have no criminal record with the RCMP and the only record of the offence is a court document from the county I was prosecuted in (which I had to dig for to get a copy of). The only reason US Immigration knows about the charge is because I told them about it on one occasion while travelling across the border. Until this day came I was travelling back and forth across the border regularly.

I've had several waivers since then ( they are good for 5 years now)and the last one ran out in 2008. The processing time is about 6 months and the total costs are right around $1000 Cdn. Here is some of the bullshit you have to go thru to get one:

-fill out the waiver app and pay a fee of around $600 US (this must be a money order drawn on a US bank)
-get fingerprinted by US Immigration (there a fee for this too)
-get fingerprinted by RCMP ( there a fee for this too)
-send RCMP fingerprints to get a copy of your criminal record (if there is one...and by the way there is a fee for this too)
-get three letters of character from upstanding Canadians that know you (by the way they never call to check out the people whose letters you include)
-write a letter about yourself and how you've changed your evil ways

Needless to say the process is a bitch. I hired a lawyer to do the first one but have done subsequent ones on my own. And get this - you don't do this just once you do it every time ( waivers used to be good for one year but now last five years). Over the years these waivers have cost me thousands of dollars for a charge that I received a $50 fine for. I haven't bothered to reapply for a new waiver since mine ran out in 2008.

And if all this isn't enough then there's more - even with a waiver you are treated no different than public enemy #1 when you cross the border. As soon as they type in your name the bells and buzzers go off and half a dozen officers converge on your vehicle. Then they drag you inside and go thru your paperwork before they send you on your humiliated way. This usally takes anywhere from 30 minutes to an hour.

I can go anywhere in the world EXCEPT the USA...because of a 31 year old pot charge...

sorry...1979 not 1980...had 1980 on the brain...

i think you all are missing the point...this picture is HILARIOUS

Isn't there a statute of limitations that says you can't be charged for a crime 30 years later?

Your rights and what is right do not matter any longer.

What matters is the corporations rights and their total profits.

When the rich run the country the poor can expect no help.

Well I'm sure glad our Nazi police and corporate fascist police are using my tax dollars to keep her off the streets! Too bad the idiots that run this country are bringing it in by the plane and truckload! Bill Clinton and the Bush crime family? Mena? See when the dealers in south Florida made the dumb mistake of depositing billions into the Fed bank the big boys said whoah! HW invades Panama to seize all the money down there and all the money in Miami too then they took over with the CIA and military. Fly it right into military bases, the Colombian express.

Custom and police only followed the law not common sense and humanity. I am glad not to be a taxpayer in US paying for such foolishness. Imagine the costs for extradition.
Who wants to go to such a paranoic country.

I feel safer already !!

Two comments:

First, there's an old saying "Justice delayed is justice denied." Taking up an old charge like this after 30 years is certainly delayed justice, and for that reason it's not justice at all. The American legal system needs to learn to forgive and forget ancient charges they haven't been able to successfully prosecute. Yes, I'm thinking of Roman Polanski, too. The Roman Polanski of today is not the creepy Roman Polanski of 30 years ago.

What on earth is the purpose of punishing someone so long after an offense? It's like smacking a teenager for dumping their babyfood on the floor when they were two years old.

Second, when recreational marijuana is finally legalized, as it will be within a few years, I hope there's a law that says that dangerous drugs like tobacco can't be mixed in with it. It's very important to keep the tobacco cartel away from marijuana, in my opinion. Otherwise, they'll use it as a way of addicting youngsters to the filth they sell now.

Complete and total insanity.
Consider the cost of doing this ...
Consider the value received from doing this ...
Complete and total insanity, redux.

Did anyone else notice that her original arrest date was April Fool's Day (U.S., obviously)?

And who cares at this point? Yes, 12 year olds shouldn't do bong rips, but adults who consume cannabis for medical or recreational reason should be left alone, and stop wasting taxpayers' money on a garbage law, based upon Mexi-phoba from1933.

This is insane. Genuinely undersigned by the msnabelow.

Are you KIDDING me? Wow. This is your government, hard at work. Why not make a educated decision and look for people who are a threat NOW...not 30 years ago. America is full of morons.

Stop criminalinzg innocents.

How bloody depressing is this?

I'm going to go deficate on a nicely-maintained place where someone honourable is planted for inevitable composting.

Won't solve much, but I'll be xlear,conciously.

God Bless America... It spends million and millions of $$$ to find Bin Laden, and years and years to arrest Bernard Madoff... but some how, they can catch a LOL, who was a "big" time dealer, delivering a pound or 2 of weed from 1980... Some how, registered sex offenders can live next to schools for years, and they never get caught... There's is something rotten with a the system that allows this to happen... and they spend billions on bail outs of banks, that
get slapped on the hands with feather dusters...
I better watch out, I once tore the label off a pillow, that had a "do not remove, under penalty of the law!"

Basically. She will not even be slapped on the wrist. The charges will be dropped and she will be set free of her own recognisance. Statute of limitations is a bitch and is 10yrs nationwide except when it involves murder or a gross felony like bank robbery. So basically they not only wasted your, money but all of ours to extradite poor granny who was trying to get her smoke on 30 f-in yrs ago. God Bless America and its dumbass legal system. Legalize it already.

[SARCASM]She was obviously a grave national security risk! Weren't you people paying attention!

She's obviously "gotten away with her criminal behaviour" for decades!

Such people need to learn that statutes like those for cannabis prohibition are written for a reason! (To take your money, and exert control on people who've never hurt anyone else in their lives!)

Letting this woman go will send a clear message to the criminals in society who think that smoking a non-toxic herb known to cure cancer, mitigate diabetes, lessen effects of glaucoma and many other diseases...the government doesn't want you to live your life until THEY give you permission!

[/SARCASM]

Whenever people realize that you're only a slave if you ACCEPT SLAVERY without fighting back, things will change for the better. If that day never comes, things are only going to keep getting more and more ridiculous...and dangerous for citizens.

How brave of our self-proclaimed guardians to kidnap a 74 year old woman who apparently has harmed no one and isn't a threat to anyone.

This idiotic "War on Drugs" has run roughshod over our former liberties and rights, and makes a mockery of our common law traditions and even common sense. Why in the world would that warrant even be considered "active" 30 years later? What happened to the common law concepts behind the "statue of limitations"? Is the possession of a common plant really equivalent to murder, so that an alleged violation never expires?

Dude, where's my grandma?

To all the people saying nay to leagalizing MJ. I say give it some deep thought - look at all the facts and then make a choice. The Facts are already stated here over and over. My wife was taking Dilaudid (heroin) for back pain - a protruded disk in her back (her back has been out of sort for about 10 years) she's replaced this with pain treatment using MJ - her life has NEVER been better, and she's avoided back surgery ...every case is different - but there are thousands of stories just like hers. ALL drugs should be leagal - this IS a health tratement issue - NOT a criminal justice issue.

This is outrageous. The government is ridiculous. There are rapist, serial killers, and child predators are on the loose and were more concerned about an old lady that likes to get stoned. That's stupid. Who is she harming? No one! It really is an issue of money. The government is just retarded and doesn't understand the legalizing weed will bring in revenue. Not to mention that fact that there are 85,000 deaths per year that are related to alcohol. Also there are 32,000 deaths per year due to adverse reactions of prescription med. Pharmaceuticals are ruining us. Though don't get it twisted some medications are useful, but many are dangerous and addicting. Weed has never done enough damage for ay government to be making this big of a deal about it. I hope she gets off on this charge and rolls a fatty blunt. Smoke up Grandma Your a true G. Word life.

Haha, I'd love to see the jury at this trial. Who the fck is going to convict grandma on a 30-year-old pot charge? I'd sue for false arrest.

Smoking has been around since man found fire. This country has forgotten its history. Tobacco was not introduced to this country until the late 18th century. Having been involved in archiology, the most common finds are pipes. In questioning archiology professors, they will point out that our fore-fathers smoked marijuana. I have also found bills of sale for "hemp for personal consumption" from the early 1700's. Wake up America, our fore-fathers smoked pot and (due to lack of potable water) drank ALL THE TIME! Our constitution was written by men who were high on marijuana.

here here Old Scratch...Simply Said....OMG this isnt the house of commons... its a pot charge on a 70 something yr old woman... I think we have bigger and better fish to fry