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Hopefully none of you needto know this, but if you’re getting arrested in Texas and you’ve got herb on you and give it to the cops outside of the police station then you’re getting a misdemeanor at most. If you wait until you are inside, it becomes a felony. For the exact same bag of ganja.
Unfortunately, 18-year-old Marty Segura didn’t get that helpful service announcement in time.
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Some kids and their very un-cool dad yesterday stumbled upon a plot of marijuana growing in a corn patch while the group was out hunting for cherries. Apparently they got all George Washington and couldn’t tell a lie.
According to MLive.com, which broke the story, police were called in to cut down and haul off about 50 marijuana plants from the back part of a cornfield. And apparently, this type of thing isn’t uncommon.
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Police in Glendale, Arizona sniffed out a pot grower who had a kindergarten-level excuse for his growing operation — the dog ate his medical-marijuana card.
According to court documents obtained by New Times, Charles Stephens III was growing outside of the limitations of the medical-marijuana program anyway. In an officer’s probable-cause statement, he describes literally sniffing out the growing operation inside a home, which he caught a whiff of from the nearby street corner. The Phoenix New Times has the local coverage.
| Marc Emery in 2007. |
Finally some good news for Marc Emery. Emery’s wife, Jodie, tells the Canadian Press that her husband has been approved for deportation from the United States to Canada to finish out his five-year sentence for mailing cannabis seeds into the U.S.
The next step is for the Canadian government to give their approval, and Emery could be back on Canadian soil by Christmas.
Colorado democrat congressman Ed Perlmutter today introduced a bill that would allow banks to carry the accounts of medical marijuana and state-legal recreational marijuana businesses.
Because marijuana is illegal in all forms at the federal level, banks insured by the federal government have been reluctant to do business with marijuana dispensaries, even though the pot shops are legal at the state level. That has left hundreds of legal marijuana-related businesses across the country operating on a cash-only basis or hiding the true nature of their business from bankers.
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| An alcohol awareness poster in Sydney, Australia. |
Legalizing marijuana can protect Australia’s youth from the dangers of binge drinking.
That’s the message from Robin Broom, director of the Centre for Alcohol Policy Research, Australia’s primary, government-funded alcohol research group.
Room, a professor at Melbourne University, tells the (Melbourne-Victoria) Herald-Sunthat Australia needs to be progressive with this issue and work towards a legalized and controlled market for cannabis. He says that it should be sold through state stores, not unlike how some U.S. states handle alcohol sales.
Washington D.C. council member Tommy Wells wants to stop making criminals D.C. residents for possession of small amounts of cannabis, and will introduce legislation today to do just that.
Wells, a democratic candidate for mayor, announced his plans to make possession of less than an ounce a civil fine with a $100 fine as the maximum punishment. The goal, he says, is to end the criminalization of youth in his community.
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A suspect who allegedly robbed a Los Angeles-area marijuana dispensary opened fire on police, riddling an LAPD cruiser with bullets in Northridge, police said. Police last night said two suspects had been arrested and another was detained in connection with the robbery, pursuit and shootout. L.A. Weekly has the rest.
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A Tustin, Calif. condominium apartment exploded over the Fourth of July weekend not due to firecrackers but, according to police, a residential cannabis oil extraction operation gone wrong. The blast caused considerable but non-life-threatening injuries to two men.The men were taken to UCI Medical Center for treatment after police responded to Friday’s explosion call just before noon, according to Tustin Police Lt. Paul Garaven.
The OC Weekly has the rest of this scary tale of hashmaking gone horribly wrong.
| Trayvon Martin, from Wikipedia. |
Marijuana use has been needlessly dragged into one of the messiest murder trial battles in this country, with the defense in the Trayvon Martin/George Zimmerman murder trial pushing to introduce Martin’s trace amounts of THC in his system into evidence to show that the Florida neighborhood watch was justified in shooting the unarmed teenager.