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.

Over the past several years, we’ve told you about alleged marijuana profiling — drivers of cars with Colorado plates being pulled over by troopers in other states for what are often extremely minor infractions as an excuse to search for cannabis.
A lot of these stops come to nothing — but every once in a while, cops hit the jackpot, as it were. Take this week’s arrest of Aurora’s Santiago Adame-Melchor and Anahit Conejo-Galicoa, who were allegedly caught with 99-plus pounds of weed. Westword has the full story.

Never get high on your own supply. That classic piece of advice comes from Tony Montana in Scarface. But Pejman “Vincent” Mehdizadeh, a 36-year-old medical marijuana entrepreneur based out of Los Angeles, thinks the credo applies to dispensary workers just as much as cocaine kingpins. In fact, the way he sees it, business owners would be better off relying on a giant safe than a human being. That was the idea behind Medbox — the Redbox of medical weed.
But critics say the company is a sham and point to Mehdizadeh’s criminal and legal past as evidence that Floridians shoauld keep their money as far away from him as possible. Read the full story at the Broward-Palm Beach New Times.

Have you ever used pot or hash? According to the U.S. Census Bureau’s Statistical Abstract of the United States, 41 percent of people twelve years and older responded in 2008 that they have — at least once in their life. We’re guessing that number is going to rise in the next report, though, thanks to legalization in Colorado and Washington and changing attitudes elsewhere.
But here’s a more specific question. Have you used pot of hash in front of a U.S. Census Bureau employee? Anecdotal evidence would suggest that some of you have — and at least one census worker is fine with that.