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Hopefully none of you needto know this, but if you’re getting arrested in Texas and you’ve got herb on you and give it to the cops outside of the police station then you’re getting a misdemeanor at most. If you wait until you are inside, it becomes a felony. For the exact same bag of ganja.
Unfortunately, 18-year-old Marty Segura didn’t get that helpful service announcement in time.

“I cannot tell a lie, there’s weed growing over there.”

Some kids and their very un-cool dad yesterday stumbled upon a plot of marijuana growing in a corn patch while the group was out hunting for cherries. Apparently they got all George Washington and couldn’t tell a lie.
According to MLive.com, which broke the story, police were called in to cut down and haul off about 50 marijuana plants from the back part of a cornfield. And apparently, this type of thing isn’t uncommon.

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Police in Glendale, Arizona sniffed out a pot grower who had a kindergarten-level excuse for his growing operation — the dog ate his medical-marijuana card.
According to court documents obtained by New Times, Charles Stephens III was growing outside of the limitations of the medical-marijuana program anyway. In an officer’s probable-cause statement, he describes literally sniffing out the growing operation inside a home, which he caught a whiff of from the nearby street corner. The Phoenix New Times has the local coverage.

A drop of hash oil from Wikipedia.

A Tustin, Calif. condominium apartment exploded over the Fourth of July weekend not due to firecrackers but, according to police, a residential cannabis oil extraction operation gone wrong. The blast caused considerable but non-life-threatening injuries to two men.The men were taken to UCI Medical Center for treatment after police responded to Friday’s explosion call just before noon, according to Tustin Police Lt. Paul Garaven.
The OC Weekly has the rest of this scary tale of hashmaking gone horribly wrong.

It’s stories like this one that give cannabis consumers, users and dealers a bad — and paranoid — face. But we’ll tell it anyway as a cautionary tale and to point out that not all pot smokers keep homemade explosives along side their bongs. An unspectacular bust of a low-level pot dealer in north Phoenix got pretty spectacular after police found a powerful bomb at the house.
Phoniex police were serving a warrant at the home of the alleged weed salesman, 21-year-old Todd Robertson, when officers found the device that bomb technicians said “would ‘level’ the entire residence,” according to court documents obtained by the Phoenix New Times. Read the rest of this WTF moment over at the New Times site.

Sgt. Gary Wiegert.

St. Louis Metropolitan Police Sergeant Gary Wiegert will finally be allowed to lobby for marijuana reforms, more than three months after his legal battle with the department first began.
Wiegert and his attorneys have alleged that his bosses refused to let him work on the side as a paid marijuana lobbyist because they did not want one of their employees associated with the cause. Wiegert — who claims the lobbying gig was initially approved, then revoked — accused the department of violating his First Amendment rights. Riverfront Times has the rest.

Mixed Martial Arts referee Josh Rosenthal was given 37 months in jail, three years of probation and a $100 fine for allegedly growing cannabis in Oakland in 2012.
The sentencing comes after Rosenthal’s attorneys reached a deal with the state. He was initially facing ten years to life in prison, five years probation and $10 million in fines. All for growing some pot.

Sounds like someone is plagued by a serious number of body thetans. Denise Gentile, the twin sister of David Miscavige, the top religious leader of the Church of Scientology, was arrested in Saint Petersburg on marijuana charges over the weekend.
Gentile is active in the church as well, and Scientology strictly forbids the use of any mind-altering substances. However, reports are starting to surface that Gentile has a long history with drugs. The Miami New Times has the rest of this story.

They call me the sloth…

A questionable U.K. study claiming that marijuana is linked to laziness is being passed around like it’s the gospel this week – even though the researchers in the study question whether “a syndrome exists” and admit that they only studied cannabis users who admitted to previously having “psychotic-like experiences”.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/02/marijuana-motivation-longtime-use-pot_n_3534031.html?ir=Healthy+Living
Not only that, but the study comes out of marijuana-paranoid U.K. These are the same people who think “skunk” is a new type of marijuana and that it can cause you to go insane and hurt people or yourself. Seriously, it’s like they read Nancy Reagan’s notes from the 1980s on WikiLeaks or something.

Ex-crackhead Rep. Darryl Rouson, who sponsored the bill that eventually became the “bong ban” law on Monday, is unhappy about how watered down it turned out to be, when all was said and done.
Rouson believes that The Pot is a gateway drug to things like The Crack. Therefore, he worked diligently for years on a bill he hoped would ban all bongs, glass bowls, roach clips, and other things that can be used as a marijuana smoking device. But the final bill basically says that head shops can sell the devices, as long as they’re for tobacco only, thus creating the raddest loophole ever, man. The Broward-Palm Beach New Times has the full story.

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