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Medical marijuana patients should not be allowed to smoke cannabis, nor should they be allowed to share it with other patients. That’s the decree from New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who says a medical marijuana proposal currently locked in state Senate committees needs major overhauls before he would ever consider signing it.
Also, if you fake an ailment for a recommendation, it should be a felony.
Last Friday afternoon, a Palm Beach County sheriff stopped 18-year-old Evan Steward as he was cruising his silver Hyundai Sonata, without a driver’s-side headlight, through Boca Raton. A cop pulled Steward over and told him he had been stopped because of the headlight. Steward then consented to a search, saying he had “nothing in the car” and “nothing to hide.”
The deputy, however, found a black backpack in the trunk that contained two bags of weed (116.2 grams in all), 19 Xanax bars, a grinder, and a scale. Still, Steward had a pretty great explanation for all the drugs in his domain.
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Apparently there is such a thing as chilling too hard.
At odds with sedate pothead iconography – “This aggression will not stand, man.” – the TreeHouse Social Lounge, L.A.’s first members-only BYO-pot bar-of-sorts, closed its doors on Sunday after noise complaints filed by surrounding neighbors, according to employees and patrons.
One of the TreeHouse’s resident budtenders, “Cheese,” says that the landlord unexpectedly announced on June 1 that the pot bar would need to relocate by June 7 after reportedly receiving several complaints to the cops about loud late-night noise and excessive numbers of cars parked on nearby streets.
More over at the LA Weekly.
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The Hershey Co. recently sued a Colorado firm, TinctureBelle, for copyright infringement — and it’s filed a similar suit against a Washington business, Seattle Conscious Care Cooperative.
Should we expect more complaints like these? Well, most pot edibles we’ve seen for sale in Colorado are in no danger of inspiring one — but judging by images we found online, there are plenty of product designs out there capable of making lawyers salivate. Look above and below to see twenty pics of items that have been or could be targeted by suits.
Chivalry, you’ll be happy to learn, isn’t dead. Almost, maybe, but it still burns on in the heart of former Dallas police officer Michael Mosher.
Mosher was one of seven officers who responded to a report of three potentially suspicious young men walking through an alley in the 6600 block of La Cosa Drive in Far North Dallas after dark one evening in January 2011. Those suspicions seemed justified when two of the young men bolted at the sight of the first squad car and when the other, 21-year-old Aaron Curtis, admitted to having a glass marijuana pipe in his pocket.
Since Curtis wasn’t in possession of any actual marijuana, officers cited him for possession of drug paraphernalia and drove him to the apartment he and his girlfriend shared nearby.
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Ladies and gentlemen, allows us to introduce you to Ms. Crystal Metheney.
You didn’t read that wrong. Your mind isn’t screwing around with you. This woman from Polk County has the perfect Florida name. She was arrested back in early May. The charge: shooting a “missile” into a “occupied vehicle.” The 36-year-old bonded out for the charge the next day. Which is perfect. That means she’s free to meet Edward Cocaine on a blind date.
Florida, we have to get these two together. Want to help? Head over to the Broward-Palm Beach New Times for more.
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Sammy Flores Jr. was born in 1971 and given the name of his father, Samuel Flores Sr., who happened to be one of the largest marijuana trafficking kingpins in the 1970’s and 1980’s. Junior was quick to follow in his father’s shady footsteps.
After his father was riddled with bullets by Mexican police at a dusty roadside checkpoint in Guadalajara in the fall of 1985, Flores fell into a life of crime of his own. Just three months after his old man was gunned down, Flores was arrested at the Pittsburgh airport carrying $17,000 in cash and a silenced .22 caliber pistol after having just completed a 205 pound weed sale in the city.
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There’s no dispute that vicious, Southern California killer Stephenson Choi Kim managed to enjoy his maximum security inmate status with sex dates, porn, marijuana, a vibrator, cigarettes, restaurant food, razor blades, tools and an AT&T cell phone (plus earpiece and charging cord) inside the Orange County Jail system.
But at a just-launched trial there’s a tense debate about whether Kim owes his perks to a corrupt jail deputy–David Lloyd Cass, or merely gross incompetence inside the Orange County Sheriff’s Department (OCSD). OC Weekly has more.
When your father is a former Major General with the Kuwait army, you might think that growing a few dozen pot plants on your roof would go unnoticed.
You would be wrong, however. According to the Arab Times, a Kuwaiti man was arrested for marijuana cultivation after neighbors narc’d on the rooftop garden that had been fenced in with tall corrugated plastic sheeting.
Under normal circumstances, marijuana is a weed of pacifists and does not, in any way, lead to the shrieking threat of violence. However, in the lunatic clutches of two brothers with more red-eyed testosterone than anything resembling common sense, we suppose then, and only then, is this magnificent flower capable of being hazardous to someone’s health.
Just ask 33-year-old Florida resident Jackie Brown, who was savagely beaten over the weekend with several cannabis plants after he and his younger brother, 31-year-old Rodney Brown, allegedly got into a knuckle-headed argument over what appears to be the family business – an illegal marijuana grow operation.