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Denver Narc Claims Marijuana Seizures Up 380 Percent

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Photo: The Record

​A Denver narc claims that illegal marijuana seizures are “up 380 percent from 2009,” and believes “surplus medical marijuana” is to blame.
Commander Jerry Peters of the North Metro Task Force, who has long maintained that “drug dealers” are “taking advantage” of the medical marijuana industry, isn’t sure that tightening Colorado’s medical marijuana law would even help.
“I don’t necessarily like the law the way it is anyway,” he said. “I think this effect will be there no matter what happens.”
For some good reading from our sister blog in the Village Voice Media empire, check out the rest of the story by Michael Roberts at Westword:

Police Chief Busted For Growing Marijuana; Suing Sheriff

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Graphic: Media Junkie

​A small-town Montana police chief was arrested Tuesday for allegedly growing marijuana in a barn near his residence.

Roosevelt County deputies arrested Poplar Police Chief Chad A. Hilde at his rural home north of Culbertson, Montana, reports Travis Coleman at the Great Falls Tribune. The chief is being charged with one felony count of “criminal production or manufacture of dangerous drugs,” and one misdemeanor count of “criminal possession of dangerous drugs.”
Chief Hilde, who faces up to 10 years in prison on the felony charge, has been placed on “administrative leave,” according to a dispatcher Monday at the Poplar Police Department. The police chief, who says the marijuana belonged to an authorized patient, said he planned to sue the Roosevelt County Sheriff.
A juvenile female runaway told Roosevelt County Sheriff’s Deputy Matt Wallace on July 30 that Chief Hilde had marijuana growing in his barn, and that Hilde told her it was for medical purposes, according to an affidavit filed by acting Roosevelt County Attorney Steven Howard.
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Missing Boy Found… Along With Dad’s 147 Marijuana Plants

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Photo: The Trentonian

​It was a classic good news/bad news scenario. Police in Maine said they found a three-year-old autistic boy who wandered away from his home — along with 147 marijuana plants being cultivated by his father.

The boy was reported missing by his father, 41-year-old Jonathan Lehr, at about 2:30 p.m. on Sunday, reports News 13.
The three-year-old, Benjamin Lehr, was found unhurt about two hours later when a pilot with the Maine Warden Service spotted him in some tall grass and woods not far from his home in Vienna, Maine. He was dehydrated and disoriented, but otherwise OK.
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Ultralight Flight To Check Two Pot Plants Lands Fla. Men In Jail

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Photo: Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission
Two men are accused of flying this small ultralight aircraft to an island to tend two marijuana plants.

​Two Brevard County, Florida men are in jail on marijuana cultivation charges after they made an ultralight flight, allegedly to tend their cannabis plants on a deserted island inside a conservation area, according to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.

An agency inspector working on the nearby Seminole Ranch Conservation Area about 9 a.m. on Friday said he saw an ultralight plane land near a palm island in the St. Johns River in Volusia County, agency spokeswoman Joy Hill said, reports Jeff Weiner of the Orlando Sentinel.
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Red-Faced Governor Claims Growing Pot Was Rutgers’ Idea

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Photo: NY Post
Gov. Chris Christie’s hare-brained equivocation and incompetence have resulted in New Jersey patients waiting another six months for the only medicine that works.

​Butt-hurt and embarrassed that they turned down his idea to grow medical marijuana, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie on Friday took Rutgers University to the woodshed.

The governor claimed that he was “surprised” Rutgers refused his offer to become the lone grower of the state’s medical marijuana supply — because the whole thing was the school’s idea.

“They absolutely came to us,” Christie claimed. “I wouldn’t have even thought about it.”
The governor added that he was “disappointed” when he heard university leaders say the plan was unworkable, reports Beth DeFalco at the Courier Post Online.
“Their handling of it, candidly, was disjointed,” Gov. Christie said. (Hehehe. The governor said “disjointed” while talking about marijuana).
“And it doesn’t give me great confidence in the way decisions are being made over there,” the governor said.
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DEA Returns $62 Cash Seized In Marijuana Grow Room Raid

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Photo: Jeff Schrier/The Saginaw News
Ed W. Boyke, 64, stands with some of the belongings that the Saginaw County Sheriff’s Department seized when they raided his home on April 15. Boyke legally grows medical marijuana and police raided his home because they claimed to believe he was violating the law. He had to pay $5,000 to get his own stuff back.

​Medical marijuana patient and provider Edwyn W. Boyke hoped he was going to get his guns and grow equipment back when, two days after the Saginaw County Sheriff’s Department returned his TV, he was asked to return to the Drug Enforcement Administration’s office in Saginaw, Michigan.

But when Boyke arrived at the DEA office on Friday afternoon, he said an agent told him the guns and other items, including grow equipment, “would be retained as possible evidence” in an ongoing federal investigation into whether Boyke violated drug laws by growing and possessing harvested marijuana and plants inside his home.
​The DEA agent handed Boyke $62 in cash that was taken from Boyke’s wallet during the raid and wished him a good day.
“They called me and said come pick up my stuff, said they had it, they were through with it,” Boyke said. “It sounded like he was going to give me everything,” he said, reports Gus Burns of The Saginaw News.
Boyke, a legal, registered patient who smokes marijuana to ease back pain caused by a pinched nerve, hoped to recover his four guns — three hunting rifles and an antique, inoperable Russian gun — which he said Saginaw deputies seized from his Saginaw Township home while a DEA-secured search warrant was being served on April 15.
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Gamer Teen Accidentally Leads Cops To Parents’ Pot Farm

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Photo: Lake County News-Sun
The Millers: They’re in the jailhouse now, all of ’em

​​Damn kids. Police traced an Illinois teen to his home after he allegedly stole credit cards and used them to play Internet games. When police entered the home, they stumbled upon his parents’ marijuana growing operation and arrested them as well.

Authorities had been investigating multiple fraudulent online orders and downloads resulting from a Lincolnshire, Ill., car burglary in July. In that case, the victim’s credit card was taken from his vehicle, reports Frank Abderholden at the Lake County News-Sun.
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Morocco: Cannabis Farmers Angry Over Police Bribes

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Photo: Laurent Laniel
Cannabis has for centuries been grown in northern Morocco’s Rif Mountains.

​For centuries, the remote town of Bab Berred has been the heart of Morocco’s cannabis-growing region, where farmers carried on the time-honored tradition of cultivating fine marijuana as their fathers and grandfathers did before them.

Growing marijuana is against the law in Morocco, but police looked the other way as farmers grew their pungent crops in the heart of the Rif Mountains. But now farmers are angry they are being forced to pay bribes to local police to continue growing the herb, reports Aida Alami at GlobalPost.
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First Marijuana School To Open In New England

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The New England School of Alternative Horticultural Studies says it will be the first marijuana training facility in the Northeast.

​California and Colorado, move over. Higher learning is coming to the American Northeast.

The New England School of Alternative Horticultural Studies, a Rhode Island-based medical marijuana training center, announced on Thursday the September launch of its basic medical marijuana training class in Warwick, R.I., which it said is the first professional medical marijuana training class in the northeastern United States.
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County Will Pay For Marijuana Plants Stolen From Patient

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Photo: Hats Radio
A Washington medical marijuana patient will be paid for his 15 cannabis plants after they were stolen, then recovered and taken into evidence by deputies.

​A Washington medical marijuana patient whose pot plants were stolen on Sunday will probably get money — but not his plants — back from the Kitsap County Sheriff’s Office.

The plants, which are now being held as evidence in the criminal case against a pair accused of stealing them, may be needed in court, and will likely spoil before they can be returned to their rightful owner, according to Kitsap County Sheriff’s spokesman Scott Wilson, reports Josh Farley at the Kitsap Sun.
“We don’t want to provide something back that could cause illness,” Wilson said.
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