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A small, unmanned, boat washed ashore onto Ft. Lauderdale beach early Monday morning. And while boats washing ashore is nothing new to South Florida, this particular boat had several bales of pot on board.
Come to think of it, boats washing ashore with bales of pot in them is nothing new in South Florida, either. Either way… POT BOAT. Broward-Palm Beach New Times has the full story.

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Add this to the list of Things that Make You an Asshole: Stashing marijuana in the Minnie Mouse backpack of your friend’s 3-year-old daughter, then letting the girl get busted at preschool with said stash all in a state where marijuana is still illegal. Added? Good.
According to New York police, 24-year-old Kelly Mena is an asshole.

U.S. Border Patrol agents intercepted a Mexican national who was attempting to swim to California with a big sack of cartel weed. The capture occurred late on Thursday, Sept. 19, but wasn’t made public until Sept. 24, when authorities issued a press release on the incident.
Agents were apparently conducting boat operations at 11 p.m. when they spotted a man floating on something about 1 mile north of the U.S.-Mexico border and approximately 600 yards offshore. OC Weekly has the full story.

For the past four decades, the University of Michigan and the National Institute on Drug Abuse have been conducting a study named Monitoring the Future, which collects and reviews annual changes in drug and alcohol use among American teenagers. Their latest study surveyed over 47,000 students in 8th, 10th & 12th grade, and the numbers regarding teen marijuana use have some people incredibly concerned.

These synthetic smokables do not resemble marijuana.

Stephane Colbert says her 19-year-old son died in 2011, allegedly after he smoked a synthetic, lab-made c compound called “Mr. Smiley” that many news outlets are calling “synthetic marijuana”..
Synthetic weed was banned federally in May of 2011 but Nicholas Colbert still was able to purchase some of the stuff in September of that year from a neighborhood Kwik Stop in the Springs.

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In the past two years, local cities in California have been more than happy to cooperate with the Obama Administration’s war on medical marijuana. But now the feds are signaling that they will back off and allow states like Washington and Colorado which have legalized and are setting up strict statewide regulations for marijuana. But don’t think for a moment that the Potpocalypse is over yet–it’s too profitable for both the feds and California cops.
The latest evidence: a request filed by the Santa Ana Police Department with the U.S. Department of Justice for 80 percent of the proceeds of the sale of a building in that city which used to house a marijuana dispensary. The Orange County Weekly has the rest on these greedy little piggies.

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One company so far has a monopoly on medical cannabis production in Canada after receiving the first two federal licenses to grow the herb this week.
Starting in April, medical marijuana patients in Canada are barred from growing their own medicine thanks to a law passed last year. All cannabis has to be produced from a licensed supplier.

“I’ll take a dime bag, officer.”

Newton County, Georgia is currently down one stoney police officer.
Deputy Darrell Mathis was arrested last week after allegedly repeatedly selling marijuana while on duty and bragging about being above the law because he technically wasthe law. We’d like to give him the benefit of the doubt and call it undermining the drug war from within.

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