Some ganja farmers in Florida are learning what happens when you tell too many people about your cultivation operation today as police continue to clean up a grow house in a Miami suburb.
At least, we assume it was loose-lips because it wasn’t someone ratting out the grower that caused this. It was burglars trying to rob the grow that caused neighbors to call the police and set the whole thing in motion.
Kids meal toy prizes from fast food restaurants sure have gotten cooler since I was a Happy Meal-eating child.
Police in Dundee, Michigan earlier this week arrested a 23-year-old Burger King employee after a family found a packed ganja pipe in their grandson’s kid’s meal. The family from Detroit immediately called the police instead of pulling back through the drive through and demanding they fix their mistake like everyone else does when a restaurant fucks up their take out order.
| Cleanup at an illegal grow in Shasta Trinity National Forest. |
A California congressman representing the northern, pot-growing part of the state has introduced legislation further penalizing outdoor growers who plant their crops illegally on private and public land.
Rep. Jared Huffman yesterday introduced the Protecting Lands Against Narcotics Trafficking Act, also known as the PLANT Act as a way of battling illegal marijuana cultivation in his district.
While people tend to point to Colorado as a beacon of how regulated cannabis can work, it seems that hasn’t really been the case in the Centennial State. For those that are keeping score, this is the third negative audit on Colorado government handling of the state medical marijuana program. But this time, it’s not at the state level. It seems the city of Denver can’t manage the task of regulating medical marijuana dispensaries very well at all (but they do just fine with liquor).
The city auditor’s office released a report yesterday morning to Denver’s Independent Audit Committee outlining numerous problems with the city’s handling of the medical marijuana industry. “The audit found that the Department of Excise and Licenses does not have a basic control framework in place for effective governance of the City’s medical marijuana program,” says the first paragraph of the report’s highlights. Ouch. Denver Westword has the rest.
| Unidentified suspected dispensary robber. |
Two men were shot and killed in an apparent medical marijuana dispensary robbery in Bakersfield, California yesterday while the two alleged robbers remain at large.
Police say that 23-year-old Devin Scott Daniels and 55-year-old Tony Conrad Sherman. Though police didn’t identify whether the two who were killed worked at the center, other news sources have identified them as security guards who worked for the dispensary.
Lots of things grow well in the Florida sunshine: oranges, the Everglades and cannabis all come to mind. Unfortunately, a proposed medical marijuana ballot measure currently collecting signatures doesn’t allow home growing whatsoever.
Instead, medicine would be produced and sold solely through state-licensed retail stores.
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Despite Phoenix New Times‘ discovery last month that Phoenix police are routinely using Craigslist to bust people offering to sell “medical marijuana” for the price of a “donation,” the busts continue. Even though some people post lengthy disclaimers in their ads, claiming that there’s no pot sale going on, it’s just a transfer of medical-marijuana between patients — with a donation involved — it’s not preventing the busts.
The Phoenix New Times has the update on the story and apparently things haven’t changed.
If your phone has a keylock feature, use it. Not only will it prevent people from stealing your information if you happen to have your phone behind (or absentmindedly leave it somewhere), but it will keep you from pocket-dialing the cops while you talk about ganja with your friends.
Of course, merely talking about marijuana isn’t illegal – but as Florham park, New Jersey police proved last week: that won’t stop them from busting you.
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Would-be New Hampshire medical marijuana patients have to wait and suffer while their legislators take their sweet time getting the state’s newly-created and recently-approved medical marijuana bills signed into law.
The bill, which creates a state-regulated marijuana dispensary program and allows registered patients to purchase and posses up to two ounces of cannabis, was approved June 26, but has been sitting on the desk of House Speaker Terie Norelli since then – unsigned. Once it makes it to the governor, the new laws go into place.
In March, Colorado state auditors gave the Medical Marijuana Enforcement Division a bad review for its ineffective tracking systems and delayed application processes. But that was only part one of a two-part report. The other half was released yesterday.
The second part of the audit had the same dismal view of medical marijuana enforcement, but this time focused on the shortcomings of the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment and Department of Revenue and their handling of the medical marijuana patient database.