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Police Say Toilet Plunger Used As Pot Pipe

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on February 6, 2012 News

Police claim this seized pot pipe was made from a toilet plunger. Babe-a-licious reporter Joleen Chaney of KFOR-TV holds the plunger pipe above.

Police in Kingfisher County, Oklahoma, made an unusual marijuana bust after pulling over a truck with a broken taillight. They claim the driver was making a pot run that started in California but only made it as far as Kingfisher, and was carrying — along with a bunch of weed — a pipe made from a toilet plunger.

“I got enough that he’s going to go away for a long time,” a deputy said with unsavory glee, reports Joleen Chaney of KFOR-TV.

There was supposedly enough marijuana and associated paraphernalia “to fill an evidence room,” including jars of cannabis police claim they seized after making the traffic stop.

“He was just acting a little bit funny, and my partner said he smelled burnt marijuana in the vehicle, and I told him I smelled green marijuana coming from the vehicle,” said Kingfisher County Deputy Eric Richardson. “He said that he did have marijuana in the floorboard.”

Anti-Marijuana L.A. City Attorney Falsely Claims Endorsements

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on February 6, 2012 Medical, News

Los Angeles Dragnet

Among all the tinhorn dictators who rail against California’s liberal medical marijuana laws, Los Angeles City Attorney Carmen Trutanich — notorious for his rabid anti-cannabis stance — stands out for his constant hotdogging and grandstanding on the issue.

Officials with three law enforcement organizations said they have yet to formally decide whom to back — if anyone — in this year’s race for Los Angeles district attorney, reports Jack Leonard at the Los Angeles Times. Trutanich, the obvious frontrunner, is now in political hot water after falsely claiming several key supporters, including the Los Angeles Airport Peace Officers Association, the Los Angeles School Police Association, and the National Association of Prosecuting Attorneys.

Why Obama Refuses To Answer Marijuana Questions

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on February 6, 2012 Culture, Legislation

Free Republic

By Jack Rikess

Toke of the Town

Northern California Correspondent

These are strange and actually wonderful times. For many the pipe is still half full and for others, the pipe is losing its fire. While everyone may be talking about medical marijuana, the few that count refuse to acknowledge the subject and do something about it.

In California, this past week, two bills that would have lessened the heat and made the competition for Medical Marijuana Bowl favor our side a little, came up short. Even with that defeat, activists still have hope and are searching for dollars and signatures.

What I find most hopeful, leading me to believe that the pipe is going to smoke no matter what, is that the straights are coming out for medical marijuana.

Pro-Marijuana Legislator In Montana Targeted By DEA

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on February 6, 2012 Legislation, News

Missoula Public Library

Rep. Diane Sands (D-Missoula) stood up for medical marijuana patients — and was investigated by the DEA

Montana legislator Diane Sands has come under investigation by the federal Drug Enforcement Administration, and she’s not sure why. But Sands said she suspects the investigation is because she advocates liberalizing the marijuana laws.

Sands told the Colorado Independent‘s Scot Kersgaard that she has no involvement in medical marijuana other than her work in the Montana Legislature. But the Missoula Democrat has been outspoken in advocating for reducing penalties for marijuana, and also advocating for the federal delisting of cannabis so that the issue can be decided by individual states.

“Because of the federal supremacy clause, federal law always trumps state law,” Sands said. “We fought a civil war over this. There is nothing a state can do to make marijuana legal, or even to make medical marijuana legal, but there is a process to change that at the federal level. Now that so many states have made medical marijuana legal, the federal government should remove marijuana from Schedule I of the Controllled Substances Act, and let the states regulate marijuana as they see fit.”

Warehouse Full Of Growing Marijuana Found Next To Crime Lab

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on February 6, 2012 Growing, News

KION 46

The three suspects are accused of operating a 480-plant marijuana grow operation next to a crime lab

Three Pacific Grove, California residents were in jail on drug charges Thursday after the Santa Cruz Anti-Crime Team raided an Airport Boulevard warehouse, which was adjacent to a state Department of Justice crime lab in Watsonville, according to sheriff’s deputies.

Law enforcement also searched a home in Pacific Grove after finding an illegal marijuana operation growing 480 plants inside the warehouse, reports Cathy Kelly at the Santa Cruz Sentinel.

Legalization Measure Short By 2,400 Signatures; Has 15 More Days

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on February 4, 2012 Legislation, News

The Weed Blog

In a near-miss, the Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol Act has fallen 2,409 signatures short of winning approval for the ballot from the Colorado Secretary of State’s Office. But the good news is, supporters still have 15 more days to reach the number of valid signatures needed.

RMLA submitted 163,632 signatures, reports Michael Roberts at Westword, almost twice as manyas the 86,105 required to make the ballot. But a shocking 79,936 of the signatures were deemed invalid by Secretary of State Scott Gessler’s office, leaving only 83,696 that were considered acceptable.

“Today’s news is unexpected, but it is really just a very small bump in the road on our journey to end the irrational policy of marijuana prohibition in the state,” RMLA backer Mason Tvert told Westword. “Fortunately, we started this signature drive in 2011, so that we would have the opportunity to cure any shortfall in our count.

Prank By Inmates Adds Pigs On Police Car Decals

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on February 3, 2012 Culture

Mike Donoghue/Burlington Free Press

The Vermont State Police seal, created by a print shop run by inmates at the state prison in St. Albans, altered the state seal to include the likeness of a pig, seen in yellow, on the cow’s shoulder. Decals of the seal are on most state police cruisers

In the feel-good story of the day, an image of a pig — the infamous 1960s-era epithet used by protesters and hippies for police officers — has wound up on a decal used on as many as 30 Vermont State Police cruisers.

Embarrassed state officials on Thursday blamed a failure of the quality assurance office within the Vermont Correctional Industries Print Shop in St. Albans, Vt., to detect a prisoner-artist’s addition made four years ago to the traditional state police logo, reports Mike Donoghue of the Burlington Free Press. In an ingenious bit of subtle social protest, a spot on the shoulder of the cow in the state emblem was modified into a pig.

A witch hunt, I mean an investigation has been launched into how the computer program was “improperly modified” to insert the image of the pig, according to Vermont Corrections Commissioner Andy Pallito.

Firm Introduces New Technology For Medical Cannabis Industry

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on February 3, 2012 Dispensaries, Medical, Products

QuantaCann

QuantaCann Says Its New System Delivers On-Site Safety & Potency Analysis

Steep Hill Lab says it became the nation’s first medical cannabis screening facility in collaboration with some of the industry’s stakeholders, when it opened for business in Oakland four years ago.

Now, by utilizing their industry experience and developing innovative software and scientific instrumentation, Steep Hill says it has significantly improved the ease by which cannabis can be tested for medical use on site.

Rhode Island Voters Support Reducing Marijuana Penalties: Poll

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on February 3, 2012 Legislation, News

A January 25-26 Public Policy Polling survey found strong support for marijuana policy reform, including more than two-to-one support for reducing the penalty for possession of marijuana to a $150 civil fine. Marijuana possession is now punishable in Rhode Island by a $500 fine and up to a year in jail.

Of those polled, an overwhelming 65 percent supported decreasing the penalties for simple possession of less than an ounce of marijuana by removing the possibility of jail time and making the offense a civil citation. Such a change received support from across the political spectrum, with 73 percent of Democrats, 64 percent of Republicans, and 60 percent of independents in favor of the measure.

Two bills, H 7092 and S 2253, have been introduced in the Rhode Island House and Senate to remove the threat of arrest and jail for personal possession of less than an ounce of marijuana.

Panel Votes To Ban Medical Marijuana On Arizona Campuses

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on February 2, 2012 Legislation, Medical

The Weed Blog

An Arizona House panel voted on Wednesday to ban medical marijuana use and possession on all college and university campuses, setting the stage for a lawsuit.

The unanimous vote by members of the House Committee on Higher Education came after Rep. Amanda Reeve (R-Phoenix) said the schools fear losing both direct federal aid and federally backed student loans if they allow faculty and students to possess medicinal cannabis, reports Howard Fischer at Capitol Media Services.

The move was backed by Kristen Boilini, who lobbies for several community colleges. She said the law will reinforce policies the schools already have in place.

Joe Yuhas, spokesman for the Arizona Medical Marijuana Association, did not attend the hearing. He told Capitol Media Services he believes his opposition would be meaningless.

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