Remember the itty-bitty pot raid that Santa Ana PD carried out on July 31st? September 2nd was the arraignment for some 123 total marijuana misdemeanor violations. And so far it seems only one out of this smorgasbord of arrestees plead guilty and swallowed the $500 fine. That’s right folks. A large number of them waived their right to a speedy trial and are opting to fight the charges.
Meanwhile the judge is none too happy with the local prosecutors.
Harvest season is upon us. We’re not talking about tomatoes, lettuce and carrots. We’re talking about that most green of crops, marijuana. Late summer marks the beginning of bud harvesting in the Emerald Triangle growing region of Northern California, perhaps the most productive cannabis region in the United States. And California’s historic drought is having its effect on what has described as California’s biggest cash crop.
Ed Rosenthal, an expert in marijuana cultivation known for his books on the topic, says that the drought is already showing its results when it comes to Golden State cannabis. “Crops will be 10 to 20 percent smaller,” he said.
More at the LA Weekly.
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Opposition to the legalization of medical marijuana has been circulating a cell-phone video showing United for Care benefactor John Morgan giving a profanity-laced speech to young voters about marijuana. The anti-medical marijuana group No On 2 cut down a six-minute video of Morgan at a post-debate party last week, showing him ranting about marijuana to a rowdy crowd.
This, No On 2 is trying to show, is proof that the quest for legalized medical marijuana is a front to getting marijuana legalized outright in Florida.
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The Wolves of Wall Street may have paved their way to success and ultimately, a federal penitentiary by snorting copious amounts of cocaine and gang banging high-end prostitutes while running penny stock scams on blue-collar America, but these cash carnivores are preparing to sink their teeth into a new kind of green these days – legal marijuana.
The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment isn’t known as the biggest booster of medical marijuana. Nonetheless, the CDPHE has been tasked by the state legislature with overseeing $10 million worth of grants intended to fund “objective scientific research regarding the efficacy of marijuana and its component parts as part of medical treatment.”
It’s been said that while marijuana doesn’t kill people, the war on marijuana does.
A 42-year-old man allegedly shot himself yesterday after a standoff with Ashville, Ohio police that stemmed from seven marijuana plants and a few jars of herb. News reports say that Timothy Sturgis stood with a gun to his head on the property of his 21-acre home in the woods of Ashville for about two hours before taking his own life as cops moved in. All of this thanks to about $25,000 in herb.
Another poll, another strong showing for medical marijuana.
With Floridians hitting the polls in a mere two months, it’s looking more and more like the majority favor legalizing marijuana. At least according to every poll that’s come out since the initiative was put on the ballot.
The recent polling comes from Gravis Marketing, which says an overwhelming 64 percent of Floridians will vote for Amendment 2 come November. It’s not the biggest margin we’ve seen, but it certainly keeps the narrative going that Floridians want to see medical weed legalized. More at the Broward-Palm Beach New Times.
The most monumental case in the history of Orange County — nay, MAN! — opened Thursday with bombshell details! You want instances, mild-mannered public? Check out these:
Drugs were planted in the car of a mom volunteering at an Irvine elementary school because an attorney couple misunderstood her meaning when she referred to their 5-year-old son as being “slow;” the husband allegedly spoke with an Indian accent when he called police on the volunteer and identified himself with the name of an Indian neighbor; and the same hubby royally pissed off his scheming (and since convicted) wife by coming home sick the night of Valentine’s Day, when she had planned a romantic night out with her firefighter lover–this revelation coming from the defense!
Follow the rest of this daytime soap strange saga over at OC Weekly.
U.S. Border Patrol agents from the San Clemente checkpoint are giving Orange County law enforcement at their various sobriety checkpoints a run for the money lately, only the feds are catching alleged drug smugglers instead of alleged booze hounds.
Two separate busts at and near the same San Clemente checkpoint on Tuesday. First, agents said they smelled marijuana in a 2006 Chevrolet Impala passing through and had the driver, a 22-year-old U.S. citizen, pull over to a secondary inspection area, according to a Border Patrol statement.
In May, we shared a Complete Colorado report featuring video evidence that Colorado drivers in Idaho were being pulled over for extremely minor infractions — at which point law enforcers would search their vehicles for marijuana.
Now, in a followup, Complete Colorado shares a new clip suggesting that vehicles with Washington license plates are also being pot-profiled as a pretext for weed rousts. Moreover, the state trooper in question says he pulled the driver over because his driving might have endangered a goat had it been walking along the highway — even though no goats were present. Details, images and the aforementioned video over at the Denver Westword.