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Los Angeles Pot Dispensary Crackdown Expected In May

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on March 24, 2010 Dispensaries, Legislation

It’s the beginning of the end for hundreds of Los Angeles medical marijuana dispensaries.

Most of the pot shops are about to be wiped out by L.A.’s new dispensary ordinance, which severely limits where they can be located, reports Dennis Romero at L.A. Weekly.

Councilman Ed Reyes is predicting that “noncompliant” shops — which means all of them, other than the 187 that were in business before the city imposed a moratorium — will start being shut down in May.

About 545 dispensaries are operating in Los Angeles, according to a comprehensive county by the L.A. Weekly (PDF). The City Council voted to winnow those down to 187 by declaring all the shops that opened after the moratorium — exploiting a boilerplate “hardship” exemption included in its language — noncompliant.

The number will eventually, through attrition, be reduced to 70 shops. Until that time, when any of the 187 permitted dispensaries go out of business, they won’t be replaced.

Five Teens Busted Smoking Pot In Sheriff’s Parking Lot

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on March 19, 2010 News

Graphic: mysouthwestga.com

Five teens on a spring break road trip to Corpus Christie were caught smoking pot in a sheriff’s department parking lot Friday night in Roswell, New Mexico.

The stoned teens stopped in what they thought was a museum parking lot at 6:30 p.m. and partied down in what was actually the Chaves County Sheriff’s Department parking lot, reports Kris Lantz at KRQE.

Sheriff Rob Coon said a dispatcher noticed the teens’ “peculiar” behavior.

“They all got our and started passing a couple of marijuana pipes around,” Sheriff Coon said. “Our dispatchers had a clear shot right to where they were at.”

Flying High Again: Ozzy Fan Arrested For Smoking Pot At Book Signing

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on February 27, 2010 Culture, News

Photo: Softpedia

A teenage fan was arrested at legendary rocker Ozzy Osbourne’s book signing after police officers saw him smoking marijuana in the book store.

Nathan Robert Mosier, 19, was arrested at the book signing at a Barnes & Noble book store in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla., where Osbourne was promoting his autobiography, reports Julius Whigham II at The Palm Beach Post.

Officers found “marijuana and fireworks” on the teenager, according to Palm Beach Gardens Police spokeswoman Ellen Lovejoy.

When officers saw Moser smoking pot in the store around 8 p.m. Friday, they approached and the suspect took off running, Lovejoy said.

The officers ran down Moser and found what appeared to be homemade fireworks during a search of his backpack. A bomb squad was called to the book store, and the fireworks were taken away to be disposed of, according to Lovejoy.

Rapper Juvenile Arrested In Louisiana On Pot Charge

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on February 27, 2010 Culture, News

Photo: St. Bernard Parish Sheriff’s Office

Rapper Juvenile is led out of an Arabi, Louisiana house after his arrest Thursday. At right is Cpl. Leander Morgan of the St. Bernard Parish Street Crimes Unit.

The rapper Juvenile was arrested Thursday in Louisiana and charged with misdemeanor marijuana possession, according to police.

The New Orleans-based artist was arrested in a house in Arabi, Louisiana. The St. Bernard Parish Sheriff’s Office said Juvenile, 34, doesn’t live in the house, but that it is owned by a friend who allows him to record music there, reports Bob Warren at The Times-Picayune.

Police investigators claimed there was no recording equipment in the house.

A spokesman for the sheriff’s department said someone called the office’s drug line to report “smelling marijuana smoke” at the house. A deputy with the Special Investigations Division went to the house, and also smelled marijuana when the door was opened, police claimed.

The man who answered the door, Leroy Edwards, 42, of New Orleans, was arrested after the deputy found marijuana on him, according to the sheriff’s department. Edwards identified himself as Juvenile’s producer.

Holy Sh*t! 30 Pounds Of Weed Found Inside Pictures Of Jesus

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on February 10, 2010 Global, News

Photo: Customs and Border Protection

“Lo, thou must hide thy stash much better next time.”

U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers on Wednesday found 30 pounds of marijuana stuffed into framed pictures of Jesus Christ at the border with Mexico, reports CNN.

“This is not the first time we have seen smugglers attempt to use religious figures and articles of faith to further their criminal enterprise,” said William Molaski, port director of the agency’s office in El Paso, Texas.

Willie Nelson’s Bandmates Cited For Moonshine And Marijuana

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on January 29, 2010 Culture, News

Photo: www.hollywire.com

Where there’s Willie, there’s weed. Let’s just all come to terms with it.

Willie Nelson was supposed to play a gig in Kenansville, North Carolina Thursday night, but he had to cancel the show because of an illness.

But you know how it is on the road. The show got canceled, and the probably bored and stir-crazy members of his band managed to get themselves into some trouble there in little old Duplin County.

Agents with the North Carolina Alcohol Law Enforcement Division issued citations to three members of Nelson’s band for having moonshine whiskey and small amounts of marijuana, reports Laura Phelps at WNCT.com.

Grandpa, 67, Holds Off Three Marijuana Robbers

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on January 28, 2010 News

Photo: CBS13.com

If you plan on stealing James Tillman’s marijuana, you’re going to need more than three guys.

They’re not going to get James Tillman’s weed.

Tillman, 67, on Sunday shot and wounded one of three burglars who broke into his Sacramento, California home to steal his medical marijuana, reports Elyce Kirchner of CBS13.com.

The other two fled and haven’t been seen since.

Mr. Tillman was definitely having none of their nonsense. After all, his grandkids were at home.

Tillman was in his bedroom when the intruders tried to go all gangster on him, but he wasn’t trippin.’

“We went back and forth and I shot him,” Tillman said. “They just didn’t give a damn. They knew we were in here, with the lights on, and with kids.”

Dope Of The Day: Police Chief Calls Marijuana Legalization ‘Nonsense’

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on December 17, 2009 Culture, Legislation

Photo: www.freedomsphoenix.com

Calm down, Chief. It’s just pot.

Port Orchard, Wash., Police Chief Al Townsend is against legalizing pot, and he’s called a new bill to legalize marijuana in the state “ludicrous.”

“If the goal of the bill is to legalize marijuana for the purpose of generating tax revenue, that’s ridiculous,” Townsend wrote in an email to Kitsap Sun crime reporter Josh Farley.

Chief Townsend calls into question the judgment of his fellow Kitsap Countian, Rep. Sherry Appleton (D-Poulsbo), one of the co-sponsors of HB 2401, which would legalize marijuana for persons 21 and older.

Marijuana Grower Used Government Loan To Set Up Pot Farm

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on December 10, 2009 Culture, Global, Growing

Photo: DEA

Spend those government checks wisely.

A jailed marijuana grower in the United Kingdom was given a government “crisis” loan after his release from jail — which he then used to set up another pot farm.

Stephen Duxbury was jailed for six months for running an earlier cannabis grow operation. He completed his time in October 2008. But on March 31 this year, police raided the house he was renting (the reason for the search is unclear).

A search revealed 123 marijuana plants in various locations around the home. The plants were being grown using a hydroponic system and illegally diverted electricity, according to the Telegraph.

It’s Not Nice To Pinch Spice: Tennessee Men Stole Oregano Thinking It Was Pot

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on December 5, 2009 Culture, News

Photo: Henna

Careful flashing that oregano around just anywhere.

A Clarksville, Tenn., man faces charges after being indicted on allegations he robbed a girl at gunpoint for what turned out to be what must have been some very nice-looking oregano.

Victor L. Little was arrested Dec. 3 from circuit court on an aggravated assault charge. His bond was set at $15,000, reports Tavia D. Green of the Clarksville Leaf-Chronicle. (No, I’m not making that newspaper name up.)

According to the indictment, Little, 18, along with Keith A. Jackson, 18, and Timothy E. Ogburn, 19, are charged with aggravated robbery and assault.

On Sept. 10, the men and a juvenile allegedly robbed two females at gunpoint, thinking they had a bag of marijuana in their possession.

It turned out to be oregano used as a prop in a school project.

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