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Man Comes To Police Station Smelling Like Weed; Gets Busted

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on January 4, 2011 News

Here’s Steven Hubbard, the genius who walked into an Indiana State Police post smelling to high heaven of weed. He was there to pick up his belongings, but got picked up himself.

An Indiana man was arrested on drug charges Monday while picking up his belongings at a State Police post, because “an odor of burned marijuana” was smelled on and around him, police said.

While it would seem pretty basic not to show up at a police station smelling to high heaven of weed, evidently that was too much to ask of Steven Hubbard, 22, of New Albany, Ind.

Just before 4 p.m. on Monday, Hubbard was picking up items he said belonged to him at the Indiana State Police Post in Sellersburg, reports Matthew Thomas at WLKY.

After Indiana State Police personnel noticed he smelled like weed, they sent “Kilo,” a K-9 drug-sniffing dog, to give Hubbard’s car a walk-around while he dealt with troopers and an evidence clerk inside, reports Matt Thacker at the Jeffersonville News and Tribune.

When Kilo alerted on the 2001 Chevrolet Monte Carlo that Hubbard had driven to the post, according to officers, they searched the car and found marijuana and $600 in cash.

Hubbard was arrested for possession of marijuana, under 30 grams, a misdemeanor, and possession of marijuana with a prior conviction, a felony.

‘Hardball’ Host Chris Matthews’ In-Law Busted For Smuggling Pot

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on January 4, 2011 News

Photo: Free Republic

Homeland Security and ICE agents found more than two tons of Jamaican pot aboard the sailboat.

An in-law of Hardball host Chris Matthews has been charged with running a major marijuana smuggling operation which brought pot to the U.S. from Jamaica.

Local police say that the trail from a pot bust — which they claim was worth $8.1 million — leads to Dartmouth, Massachusetts and James Ormonde Staveley-O’Carroll, a shipbuilder whose daughter, Sarah, is married to Michael Matthews, son of MSNBC’s Chris Matthews.

Six weeks ago when federal agents intercepted the 79-foot sailboat Sarah Moira coming from Jamaica, they seized the boat’s cargo of 4,497 pounds of marijuana, and arrested the captain and crew, reports Curt Brown at the Cape Cod Times.

Man Gets Shot; Calls 911; Gets Busted With 850 Pounds Of Pot

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on January 4, 2011 News

Photo: WTOL 11

850 pounds of marijuana was found in Angel Rivera’s home after he was shot and robbed, then called 911.

An Ohio man who remains at a local hospital after he was shot in the face during a home invasion/robbery now faces federal marijuana charges.

Angela Rivera, 21, of Fairfield Township, called 911 when two men busted down his front door, then robbed and shot him on December 30 at his home on Fayette Drive, reports WHIO TV.

The first officer on the scene said he “saw drugs” and issued a search warrant.

Investigators found 850 pounds of “high grade” marijuana while searching Rivera’s home.

“I’ve been doing this for 34 years, and I have never seen this much marijuana in one spot,” Butler County Sheriff Richard K. Jones said on Monday. “It’s almost getting to where this is what you see on the border (with Mexico), not here in Butler County.”

Hempfest May Move To Seattle Center This Year

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on January 3, 2011 Culture, News, Products

Photo: The Edge Apartments

Man, that fountain would be a great way to cool off at Seattle Hempfest this August.

Seattle Hempfest, the world’s largest pro-cannabis annual event, may be held underneath the Space Needle this year.

With the City of Seattle scheduling heavy construction this year in Myrtle Edwards Park, where Hempfest has been held for the past 15 years, the event’s promoters are currently in negotiation for a 20th Anniversary venue upgrade to Seattle Center, according to an internal email sent to supporters, members and VIPs.

“Such a move to the world renowned Seattle Center — home of the 1962 World’s Fair — would be a major step up for the visibility and legitimacy of our event (and movement, sponsors, etc.), and might attract media attention at the national level,” the Seattle Hempfest Membership Committee wrote in the email. (That “media attention at the national level” part just came true.)

Rockin’ City Manager Busted For Marijuana In North Carolina

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on January 3, 2011 News

Photo: Don Davis Jr./High Point Enterprise

In happier times: Thomasville City Manager Kelly Craver rocks out with his Street Party Band

A rock and roll-playing city manager was arrested for marijuana possession in North Carolina on Saturday.

Thomasville City Manager William Kelly Craver, 54, of Greensboro, was arrested in Davidson County late Saturday night, reports MyFox8. Craver was charged with one count of misdemeanor possession of up to a half-ounce of marijuana and one count of possession of “drug paraphernalia,” according to court records.

Craver was taken before a magistrate and given a $2,500 secured bond, although he was not in jail, the spokesperson said Sunday morning.

The city manager was charged after he was found with marijuana, a plastic bag containing traces of marijuana, and a pipe with marijuana residue, according to court documents from the Magistrate’s Office in Lexington.

Man Says Officer Seized $14,000 That Wasn’t Drug Money

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on January 3, 2011 News

Graphic: TowBoys

‘Drug Money’ Charges Dropped, But Troopers Won’t Give The Money Back

An Illinois man says the Oklahoma Department of Public Safety is improperly holding $14,000 in cash taken from his stepson as supposed “drug money” when it was actually money he had sent with the young man to buy rare coins.

“It’s literally highway robbery — that’s literally what it is,” said Oklahoma City-based attorney Chad Moody. “They pull you over, they take your money.”

After State Trooper Joe Kimmons said he smelled the odor of smoked marijuana coming from the car, he reported finding “marijuana residue” in the car and on the pants of a passenger in the car.

Alabama Media Calls Busted Marijuana Garden A ‘Lab’

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on January 3, 2011 Growing, News

Walker County Narcotics Enforcement Team/Daily Mountain Eagle

A large hydroponic marijuana grow room was found inside an Alabama barn by law enforcement. Clueless cop Adam Hadder then told the press that he’d busted a “marijuana lab,” which the gullible media outlets put right in their headlines and stories.

Alabama media outlets, including a TV station and a newspaper, last week reported the bust of a local marijuana grow operation by calling it a “marijuana lab.” While they probably think that sounds a lot more dangerous than “marijuana garden,” it also makes them look singularly foolish.

Dennis “Cowboy” James Davis, 47, of Oakman, Alabama is charged with trafficking marijuana and is currently being held in the Jefferson County Jail on outstanding warrants for attempted murder and shooting into an occupied dwelling, according to 42 News.

Davis now faces the possibility of 99 years in prison after police found the hydroponic grow operation in a barn behind his home, reports James Phillips of the Jasper Daily Mountain Eagle.

Now, this guy Davis could well be a violent, murderous douche bag, for all I know, but to report his 400-plant marijuana grow as a “lab” is just silly.

Pennsylvania Lawmaker Wants To Double Marijuana Penalties

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on December 31, 2010 Legislation, News

Photo: Lash & Associates Publishing

A Pennsylvania legislator intends to introduce a bill which would double penalties for first-time marijuana possession in the Keystone State.

Rep. Dick Hess, a Republican, wants to double penalties for first-time possession convictions for all Schedule I and Schedule II drugs, reports Derek Rosenzweig at Philly NORML. Marijuana is classed as a Schedule I drug, so the penalty for first-time pot possession would at one fell swoop go up from one year in jail and a $5,000 fine to two years and $10,000. For subsequent convictions it rises to three years and $25,000.

This backwards bill would also increase penalties for possession, distribution and manufacturing of “drug paraphernalia,” whatever the hell that is, to two years and $5,000 for the first offense. A second offense brings three years and $10,000 in fines.

Washington To Ban Synthetic Marijuana In January

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on December 30, 2010 Legislation, News

Photo: The Daily News Online

Black Mamba, a brand of synthetic marijuana, burns in a glass pipe. The vial the “incense” came in is in the foreground.

Washington’s state Board of Pharmacy announced on Thursday that it plans to place an “emergency ban” on synthetic marijuana products.

What is popularly known as “synthetic marijuana” is sold as “incense” under product names such as K2, Spice and Black Mamba. The chemicals sprayed on herbal blends are synthetic analogues of marijuana’s main active ingredient, THC.

Users typically smoke the “incense” in ways similar to using cannabis, the board said.

The blends offer, at best, a weak simulation of the marijuana high. Users report that no “munchies” accompany the trifling high, which only lasts about 30 minutes. Combining alcohol with “synthetic marijuana,” unlike real pot, can result in a splitting headache.

Police Aggressively Raid Medical Marijuana Delivery Services

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on December 30, 2010 Dispensaries, Medical, News

Graphic: KSBY

Grandmother and Children Handcuffed, Forced Facedown To The Ground; Children Taken From Parents

Aggressive raids against five collectively run medical marijuana delivery services were staged by a Narcotics Task Force of local and state law enforcement agencies on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday this week in San Luis Obispo County, California.

The raids resulted in at least 13 people being arrested on felony charges, with bails of up to $100,000. Several of those arrested were charged with child endangerment, after Child Protective Services (CPS) removed at least six children from the homes of three different families.

In one report of this week’s raids, the police kept people, including a grandmother and two children, handcuffed facedown on the ground. The children were later hauled off to CPS after their parents were thrown in jail.

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