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Fake AT&T Service Truck Was Delivering A Ton Of Marijuana

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on January 21, 2012 News

Texas Department of Safety (DPS)

You know you’re gonna wonder every time you see one of these now, for the rest of your life.

Your Weed. Delivered.®

Two men were jailed after law enforcement found more than a ton of marijuana aboard a fake AT&T service truck in Texas.

A Texas state trooper pulled over what looked like an AT&T work truck for going 72 miles per hour in a 60 zone, just west of the Hidalgo County community of McCook, reports Sergio Chapa at ValleyCentral.com.

The trooper knew something must be up when the driver took off running on foot. Aaron Arrellano-Salgado didn’t get far, though, before he was caught.

Ohio’s 2nd Medical Marijuana Ballot Issue Certified By AG

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on January 21, 2012 Legislation, Medical, News

OMCA 2012

Ohio’s second proposed medical marijuana ballot issue took a step forward Friday when it was certified by Attorney General Mike DeWine.

The Ohio Medical Cannabis Amendment to the Ohio Constitution contains a “fair and truthful” summary and has the necessary 1,000 signatures of Ohio registered voters, DeWine decided, reports alan Johnson of The Columbus Dispatch.

Next up for the ballot issue is the Ohio Ballot Board, which will determine whether it should appear on the November 6 general election ballot as a single issue or as multiple issues. Secretary of State Jan Husted set a board meeting for 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, January 25.

Woman Chews On Marijuana While Talking To Deputy

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on January 21, 2012 News

Why intelligent women read romance novels.

What’s that in your mouth?

A 46-year-old Panama City, Florida woman was busted January 4 after deputies discovered her trying to eat a bag of “suspected marijuana,” according to an arrest report from the Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office.

A deputy saw the woman walking on Marler Drive at 3:35 p.m. and struck up a conversation with her. While talking, he noticed she “was chewing on an unknown object,” reports the Northwest Florida Daily News.

Virginia To Study Benefits Of Selling Marijuana At Liquor Stores

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on January 20, 2012 Legislation, News

examiner.com

All those bottles, and not a single bag of weed. But that could change at Virginia liquor stores under a new plan suggested by Delegate David Englin

At least one local lawmaker believes Virginia should explore the idea of selling marijuana at state-run liquor stores.

Delegate David Englin, a Democrat, is calling for a study to look at the potential benefits, reports NBC Washington. Liquor sales generate millions of dollars of revenues for the commonwealth every year.

Part of the legislation reads, “As society changes, products that were deemed illegal at one time are made legal and even sold by stores that are operated by government agencies in the attempt to control the sale of the products,” reports Katie Pyzyk at ARL now.

Crooked St. Louis Cop Busted Stealing Packages, Selling Weed

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on January 20, 2012 News

Robert Cohen/St. Louis Post-Dispatch

St. Louis Police Sgt. Larry J. Davis is released from the federal courthouse on Thursday after being indicted on federal drug charges on Wednesday

A St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department sergeant and his brother have been indicted on federal marijuana charges after investigators said they diverted confiscated packages containing cannabis for distribution and sale.

Larry J. Davis, 46, is assigned as a supervisory sergeant for a division of the St. Louis Police Department that conducts investigations into illegal gang activities and illegal drug distribution, according to the indictment, reports KMOV.

The indictment alleges that from October 1, 2010 through January 10, 2012, Larry Davis seized packages containing suspected marijuana, and instead of taking them to the police department, unbeknownst to the package handling companies, investigators say Davis took the packages home with him to St. Louis City.

It was a pretty good scam — for awhile. You see, several years ago, St. Louis police stopped regularly checking packages for drugs at delivery services like UPS and FedEx, reports Robert Patrick at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. But Larry Davis didn’t say anything; he just kept making the rounds and collecting the packages.

Lawmakers Say Hemp Would Again Be A Boon To KY Agriculture

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on January 20, 2012 Growing, News

Spotlight on Sustainability

Kentucky farmers could soon once again lead the nation with a crop steeped in tradition: hemp.

With the support of Agriculture Commissioner James Comer, Kentucky lawmakers filed a bill on Thursday to put Comer at the head of the long-dormant Kentucky Industrial Hemp Commission and renew a drive to bring the crop back, reports Janet Patton at the Herald-Leader.

Twelve Kentucky House members — including a former speaker — signed on to support the bill to promote industrial hemp production in the state, reports Gregory A. Hall at the Courier-Journal.

Hemp — also known as cannabis sativa — is one of the world’s oldest cultivated plants, but it was consigned to outlaw status when marijuana prohibition was implemented in 1937, even though hemp strains of cannabis have almost no THC, the principal ingredient that gives users a high.

Polish MP Could Get A Year For Even Talking About Smoking A Joint In Parliament

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on January 20, 2012 Global, Legislation, News

AFP

MP Janusz Palikot, the leader of a new left-wing party in Poland, launched a drive on Friday to legalize marijuana in the Eastern European country

The leader of an up-and-coming new left-wing political party in Poland threatened to light up a joint in Parliament on Friday — but ended up just burning what he said was cannabis-scented incense after being reported to prosecutors.

The prosecutors have opened an investigation into whether MP Janusz Palikot broke a Polish law against “promoting or advertising” drugs with his threat to smoke cannabis in Parliament, according to news agency PAP. That’s a crime that could carry a prison sentence of up to a year, reports Vanessa Gera of the Associated Press.

Judge To Arizona Gov: Open The Marijuana Dispensaries Already

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on January 19, 2012 Dispensaries, Legislation, News

weGrow

Arizona officials must allow medical marijuana dispensaries under the 2010 voter-approved medicinal cannabis law, a Maricopa County Superior Court judge has ruled.

In his Wednesday ruling, Judge Richard Gama struck down some restrictions that state officials had planned to use to determine which applicants were eligible for dispensary licenses, report Yvonne Wingett Sanchez and Mary K. Reinhart of the Tucson Citizen.

Judge Gama noted that Arizona voters wanted the Medical Marijuana Act implemented 120 days after it passed and that “this has not been done,” reports Ray Stern at Phoenix New Times.

The reason it wasn’t done, Stern reports, is that Governor Jan Brewer — who spoke out against Proposition 203 before voters approved it in November 2010 — halted the dispensary portion of the new law at the same time she filed an unsuccessful federal lawsuit against it. Brewer decided on Friday that she wouldn’t refile that lawsuit and that the state should begin accepting applications once a lawsuit by Compassion First AZ was resolved.

Judge Gama’s ruling resolved that lawsuit, but it will still be months before the state’s 18,000-plus medical marijuana patients can walk into a dispensary and get their medicine, Phoenix New Times reports.

Cannabis Legalization Signatures Getting Line-By-Line Review

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on January 19, 2012 Legislation, News

The Weed Blog

Colorado Secretary of State Scott Gessler announced on Thursday that the proposed ballot measure concerning “Use and Regulation of Marijuana” will require a line-by-line review of all signatures.

Petitions for proposed Initiative 30, Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol, were submitted to the Secretary of State’s office on January 4. The office immediately began verifying a random sample of the signatures, as required by state law. Section 1-40-116(4), C.R.S., requires the verification of every signature filed if the random sample shows the number of valid signatures falls between 90 percent and 110 percent of the signatures needed.

Campaign To Legalize Marijuana Kicking Off In Michigan

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on January 19, 2012 Legislation, News

Cannabis Fantastic

A press conference will be held in Detroit Friday to officially kick off a campaign to amend the Michigan State Constitution to repeal marijuana prohibition for adults 21 and older.

Executive members of a grassroots committee working toward passage of the amendment — which renders every anti-marijuana statute unconstitutional — said it will not apply to or change workplace or driving issues regarding cannabis.

“Michigan led the way in ending the failed experiment known as alcohol prohibition, and we likewise intend to put an end to the wasted resources, skewed police priorities and very real collateral damage of marijuana prohibition,” said Matthew Abel, campaign director for the Committee for a Safer Michigan.

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