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I’m not lovin’ it. Staff at a Crestview, Florida McDonalds called police on December 14 after the drive-through window attendant noticed a customer was “rolling a blunt” at the window, according to the arrest report.
The customer, a 21-year-old Pensacola woman, showed police the notebook on which she rolled the blunt, according to the Crestview Police Department, reports Wendy Victora at the Northwest Florida Daily News.
Officers found marijuana residue on the notebook, and when the suspect got out of her car, they saw more cannabis on the seat and center console, according to the arrest report.
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| Delegate Harvey Morgan: “Making simple possession a civil rather than a criminal offense makes sense” |
Virginia lawmakers will have a chance to end criminal penalties for simple marijuana possession when the Assembly convenes in January — and the fight to decriminalize pot is being led by an 80-year-old Republican.
GOP Delegate Harvey Morgan, an assistant clinical professor of pharmacy at Virginia Commonwealth University, is sponsoring House Bill 1443, which would replace the criminal fine for pot possession with a civil penalty and eliminate the 30-day jail sentence and criminal record following conviction.
HB 1443 would not change penalties for the “manufacture” or distribution of marijuana, reports Eric W. Dolan at The Raw Story. It would also continue to require drug screening and education for minors convicted of pot possession.
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| Star running back Adam Robinson of the Iowa Hawkeyes — shown here in an unguarded moment from July — was arrested and charged with marijuana possession Monday night |
Iowa running back Adam Robinson has been charged with possession of marijuana, endangering his career with the Hawkeyes.
Robinson was arrested at 10:45 p.m. on Monday night, said the Iowa State Patrol, reports KCCI in Des Moines. He was a passenger in a car that was stopped by troopers, according to spokeswoman Courtney Greene, who said Robinson was cited and released.
A trooper stopped the vehicle in Des Moines because it didn’t have a front license plate, according to officials. As he approached the vehicle, the trooper reported noticing “a strong odor of marijuana” coming from the vehicle, which constituted probable cause to search, officials said.
The driver, Ermin Zornic, 20, was charged with possession with intent to deliver marijuana and OWI, pending toxicology tests. He was driven to Polk County Jail.
Robinson, a running back and the team’s leading rusher for the past two seasons, had already been suspended from the Hawkeyes due to failure to follow team policies. He did not travel with the team to Arizona to play in the Insight Bowl. He is originally from Des Moines.
Earlier this month, head coach Kirk Ferentz commented on Robinson’s suspension, saying, “While Adam has been cleared medically, he will not be participating in the upcoming Insight Bowl game as a result of failing to comply with team expectations and policies. Adam will have the option to rejoin the team when classes resume in January.”
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| Merle Haggard: “I think it’s silly to put someone in jail for marijuana possession” |
“We don’t smoke marijuana in Muskogee,” Merle Haggard sang back in 1969. But Merle’s changed his tune these days. The plain-spoken 73-year-old is still making music, winning awards and taking a stand for what he believes — including the legalization of cannabis.
“There are some people in this world that have no idea what the real deal is,” Haggard told Jennifer Self of the Bakersfield Californian when asked about his friend Willie Nelson’s recent pot bust. “I think it’s silly to put someone in jail for [marijuana possession]. I think it’s a threat to the pharmaceutical industry that you can go to the garden to grow something that might keep you from having to use Lipitor.”
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A Wisconsin man is facing marijuana charges in Lincoln County after he asked a deputy to help him get his keys, which he’d accidentally locked inside his vehicle.
A deputy went to South Gate Drive in Tomahawk about 1 a.m. Friday to assist the 28-year-old man, who was from Madison, Wisconsin, reports WSAW.
As the deputy worked to open the vehicle, he saw marijuana sitting on the front passenger seat.
The man admitted it was his pot, and additional marijuana was found in the trunk, along with a cannabis grinder.
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| The Enjoy Jar’s four separate compartments can be highly useful to the cannabis patient on the go. That’s the Nugtainer, also included with each Enjoy Jars purchase, on the upper right. You’ll have to provide your own lighter, herb and papers, man. |
Enjoy Jars are new cannabis containers designed to help medical marijuana patients organize up to five different strains of medicine. Made in Orange County, California out of a lightweight, high-performance polycarbonate, Enjoy Jars have four individual sections, all sealed, which trap that familiar skunky smell.
“Label each section with a Sharpie marker and let dry for a few seconds,” Enjoy Jars advises. “When it’s time for a new strain, simply wipe off with rubbing alcohol and write in a new name.”
The innovative lid individually seals each section to ensure that the contents remain isolated and maintain their unique smell and flavor. The contents of each of the four sections will not mix with each other.
The small Nugtainer, which comes with each Enjoy Jar, is perfect for those times when you have a nug in your pocket but don’t want it collecting any lint — and it doubles as a container for a fifth strain, should you be that lucky.
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Should companies be able to fire employees for using medical marijuana — at home, with no effects on job performance — even in states where the medicinal use of cannabis is legal?
Washington judges and lawmakers will be wrestling with that question next month as the state Supreme Court hears the case of a woman fired for legally using pot medicinally, and the Legislature looks at a bill to expand patient protections in the state’s 12-year-old medical marijuana law, reports Vanessa Ho of the Seattle P.I.
The case before the high court involves a woman suing her former employer after she failed a drug test and was fired from a customer-service job in Bremerton. The woman, using “Jane Roe” as a pseudonym in court records, was using marijuana authorized by her doctor for debilitating migraines.
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Federal agents want the state of Michigan to turn over records in a medical marijuana investigation of seven people in the Lansing area.
The U.S. Attorney’s office is asking a judge to order Michigan to comply with a subpoena.
In a court filing last week, prosecutors said the state is resisting because of privacy provisions in Michigan law, reports the Associated Press.
Federal drug agents want to see the records of medical marijuana patients and caregivers for seven people.
The seven are are not identified in court documents.
There are no details about the investigation, according to AP.
In a court document, Assistant U.S. Attorney John Bruha said possession and distribution of marijuana are illegal under federal law.
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$80 a gram, anyone?
A Chicago man has been charged with receiving shipments containing five 5-gallon buckets of “high-grade” marijuana that the Cook County Sheriff’s Office claimed is worth $2.7 million.
Based on the $2.7 million total price the sheriff’s office claimed for the marijuana, the street value of the pot is estimated at around $80 a gram, $2,250 an ounce, or $36,000 a pound.
But the sheriff’s office surely wouldn’t tell a lie, now would they?
Leroy Scott, 42, is being held on $150,000 bail. Investigators said he made “multiple trips” to the Southwest in the days before each package was shipped to him from the same area, reports David Elsner at the Chicago Tribune.
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| Police said these marijuana plants were discovered in an Ellicott City, Maryland home after a fatal accident in which a car crashed into the home. |
Police in Maryland found an indoor marijuana farm while investigating a car crash in which a young driver plowed is vehicle into a man’s home.
Richard Marriott, 44, of Ellicott City, Maryland, was arrested Wednesday morning after cops found a cannabis growing operation in his home, report Yeganeh June Torbati and Larry Carson at The Baltimore Sun. Nearly 20 large pot plants, a hydroponic system, grow lights and other smaller plants were found, police claimed.
Cops and firefighters were investigating the scene after a 20-year-old driver, Bryan Bolster, crashed his BMW into Marriott’s home about 11 p.m. on December 10, causing part of the house to burst into flames. Witnesses told police that the car was being driven at a high rate of speed.