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Photo: Dyersburg State Gazette
Members of the West Tennessee Drug Force in Lake County: “I haven’t found any pot plants. Have you found any pot plants? I hope we have jobs next year.”

​Pity the poor Lake County Sheriff’s Department and the Governor’s Task Force on Marijuana. They are facing difficult times this summer in Tennessee. Not only do they have the usual worries of trying to catch pot farmers, and wasting enough tax money so their budgets don’t get cut next year — now they can’t even seem to find any damn plants.

To hear the red-faced lawmen tell it, Mississippi River floodwaters are blocking access to the clandestine marijuana fields, reports the Dyersburg State Gazette.

Members of the task force used trucks, four-wheelers and even a helicopter to canvass the county, concentrating on areas where plants were “suspected.”


Photo: Duluth Police Department
These were some of the 150 plants seized by the fuzz in Duluth on Tuesday. Check out that phat Indica maiden on the left.

​A Duluth, Minnesota woman and her son were arrested Tuesday afternoon after a marijuana-growing operation that police called “sophisticated” was discovered in their home.

About 150 cannabis plants and a hydroponic growing operation were discovered, according to Duluth police information coordinator Brad Wick, reports Lisa Baumann at the Duluth News Tribune.
Officers from the Lake Superior Drug and Gang Task Force, Duluth Police Department and the U.S. Marshal’s Service served a search warrant at a house on Warren Avenue in the Kenwood neighborhood just after 2 p.m. 
A 65-year-old woman and her 35-year-old son were arrested at the home and taken to the St. Louis County Jail on suspicion of a first-degree “controlled substance” crime.
According to the News Tribune, a second search was conducted at another address in the Twin Cities area after additional investigation.


Graphic: Life Is A Joke

​A deputy was injured as he fell off a cliff Tuesday, pulling another deputy with him and injuring him as well, during a marijuana grow raid in California.

The Kern County Sheriff’s Office Major Violators Unit (damn, they sound important) and the Kern Narcotics Enforcement Team were trying to serve a search warrant for a cannabis grow operation in the remote area of Bald Mountain, in the Havilah, Calif., area, reports KERO 23.
During the hike into the grow area, one of the deputies lost his footing while crossing a large boulder and cliff, officers said.


Photo: WAFF
Willis Allen Shackelford asked drug agents if he could give these plants a last hug and a kiss goodbye.

​An Alabama man busted for growing marijuana had a hard time parting with his plants. He told Limestone County drug agents he loved them, reports WAFF.

Agents claimed they could smell pot coming from an air conditioning unit at Willis Allen Shakelford’s home on Quinn Road. When they went inside, they found 55 marijuana plants from six inches to four feet tall.
Shackelford told them he grew the plants from seed, and that he was “concerned” about the marijuana’s safety, agents claimed.
“He requested to know where his plants were; they were his babies,” said Deputy Johnny Morrell. “We advised him they were in the back of the truck.”

Photo: New Vision
Sisters Nanteza and Rita being led to the Masaka Police Station by District Police Commander Titus Byaruhanga and another office. The nuns were reportedly unhappy that police had entered convent grounds.

Holy smoke! ​​Police are investigating after a marijuana plantation was discovered in the garden of a convent in Uganda. 

Two nuns and two porters have been questioned, according to police.
Plants covering one acre were found and uprooted in the Masaka district, a regional police chief told BBC.
One of the nuns told local news media that the marijuana was being used to treat farm animals, particularly pigs.
Police Commanbder Muhuirwe dismissed reports in Uganda’s New Vision newspaper that the nuns were angry that police entered the convent without permission. The police commander pointed out that the garden was “separate from the convent building.”

Photo: Michael Montgomery
Garberville’s KMUD is a bastion of free speech

​Marijuana growers in Northern California’s Emerald Triangle have for decades received reports of pending police raids from a local radio station. Now the police, citing a boom in pot production and “armed illegal drug traffickers,” want the broadcasts to stop.

As pot growers in Humboldt and Mendocino counties launch another growing season, local, state and federal law enforcement agents are preparing for their part of the annual ritual — deploying helicopters, trucks and armed agents to seize marijuana plants, reports Michael Montgomery at NPR.
​”According to a citizen’s observation, at 8:45 a.m., three helicopters were seen heading from Laytonville to Bell Spring Road,” Garberville radio station KMUD recently broadcast.

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​Two members of the Oakland City Council are planning to propose legislation, possibly this month, that would allow and regulate the commercial cultivation of medical marijuana.

Council members Larry Reid and Rebecca Kaplan said they hope the rules will limit the public hazards sometimes associated with large-scale illegal marijuana growing operations, reports Kelly Rayburn of The Oakland Tribune.
Under their plan, Oakland, California would allow a small number of commercial marijuana cultivators, regulate them carefully, collect taxes on the revenue, and, Reid and Kaplan hope, keep neighborhoods safer.


Photo: International Cannagraphic
Feral hemp grows on an Indiana roadside. The Indiana State Police spent untold millions of federal dollars, and thousands of man-hours, pulling up 20 million stalks of this ditch weed last year. Trouble is, feral hemp contains no THC.

​Sgt. Lou Perras and a team of state troopers from the Indiana State Police launched a bizarre annual ritual in May: their patently impossible, insanely expensive, and laughably absurd effort to “eradicate marijuana” in the state.

Perras said part of the war on pot includes combating the public’s lighthearted attitude about the friendly weed.
“People have this attitude — ‘It’s just marijuana,'” Perras said. “That’s a sad misrepresentation of the drug,” the earnest lawman intoned soberly.
Perras seems to irrationally believe his team’s doomed efforts will somehow counteract the romanticism marijuana enjoys. The growing public acceptance of marijuana use — and its legality for medicinal usage in 14 states and counting — is making Perras’s job tougher this growing season, the drug warrior whined.


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​A California medical marijuana dispensary operator has presented his idea to start “patient-to-patient cannabis farmer’s markets” in Sacramento and surrounding counties.

Joseph Funes, president of North Country Comfort Club in North Highlands, said the farmer’s market model will help to keep money in the community by employing only local growers, reports Erin Tracy of the Woodland Daily Democrat.
An alliance with the county could result in hundreds of thousands of dollars in sales tax revenue, Funes told the Yolo County Board of Supervisors in the public comment portion of last Tuesday’s board meeting.

Photo: U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
I don’t feel like a terrorist. Do you?

​The U.S. Department of Homeland Security apparently doesn’t have enough real terrorists to chase. Now they’re going after medical marijuana growers.

A Colorado Springs police detective has enlisted the help of Homeland Security in a local medical marijuana investigation. Homeland Security sent a plane with thermal imaging equipment and two federal Border Patrol agents to Colorado to fly over a warehouse which was a suspected pot growing site, and the spy equipment revealed the warehouse was generating a lot of heat, reports Joel Millman of the Colorado Springs Gazette.

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