Son leads police to father's marijuana operation - WHIO Local News on newstalkradiowhio.com

Son leads police to father's marijuana operation - WHIO Local News on newstalkradiowhio.com

Ouch, that hurts, ratted out by your own kid. Well he was dumb enough to grow pot with such a young kid in the home while the law is still so strict, I guess he had it coming.

And no I don't believe this guy really had it coming. I don't think people should be arrested for such things, but as long as it is illegal people have to be careful.

Brave But Stupid Student Smokes One For the Team

I am always glad to hear of a new Weed Warrior dedicated to the task of the Legalization of Marijuana, so when I read this story on the net part of me said "Alright dude, that's the way to show them", the other more rational side said, "Doh!". On one hand what this student did is great for the legalization of marijuana movement, more press = more sympathy, that being said he got himself arrested. As the local pig spokesman said "If people want that law changed, they need to go about it the right way."

Ok for those of you who don't want to read the article let me give you a quick recap. A 17 yr old boy, who's name cannot be released from Tacoma Washington gave a speech in school, his topic, Legalizaton of Marijuana, by all accounts his speech was eloquent and well argued. At the end of the speech, to prove his point, he took out a joint and smoked it. Even some who were opposed to the movement praised him for his actions, one such student stated "He took action in what he believes. ... I do not condone the action, but I commend the passion."

I too commend this boy's passion. If the movement had more people like him perhaps marijuana would already be legal. However, when all is said and done he is a seventeen year old boy with a record, a drug offence at that. I wish him luck and hopes he continues the good fight.


Wash. student caps class essay reading by lighting joint | News Bizarre | Chron.com - Houston Chronicle

Suspect to police: 'Smoking marijuana, duh!' | smoking, marijuana, county - News - Northwest Florida Daily News

Wow, this guy takes the cake. While being arrested for DUI a cop searches the car and finds a pipe. When asked the man responds "Smoking marijuana... duh!". This occurred in Florida where they have drug paraphanilia laws, so guess what happens. The guy gets busted for DUI and posession of drug paraphanilia.

You're busted... duh!

Suspect to police: 'Smoking marijuana, duh!' | smoking, marijuana, county - News - Northwest Florida Daily News

Man dropped marijuana bag in court - UPI.com

Oh my, can people really be dumb enough to bring their marijuana to court with them? Desmond Kelly, 28, showed up to a New York State court house for a traffic violation. When the judge asked to see the ticket he riffled through his pockets and ended up dropping a bag of ganga on a cops shoe.

The police officer saw the bag and immediately arrested Kelly. He was arraigned right there and then. Ok in my opinion no one should be arrested for simple possession, that being said, this guy deserved it. Marijuana is illegal, to bring it to court with you, for a traffic violation of all things, is just the epitome of stupidity.

Man dropped marijuana bag in court - UPI.com

The Canadian Press: Police in London, Ont., discover two alligators during search of home

Another one from my home town. Police raided a London home expecting to find marijuana, which they did. However what they didn't count on was the two alligators and other exotic animals. Apparently the animals were kept inadequately.... alls I can say is, gee really, the guy didn't have a proper tank to fit two full grown alligators in his home. They also found nunchucks... were these guys in Grade 8, because I would have loved to live in a place with alligators and nunchucks when I was in grade 8.

Two men were charged with drug possession and possession of a prohibited weapon, but no charges have been laid from the keeping of the animals as of yet.

The Canadian Press: Police in London, Ont., discover two alligators during search of home

Marijuana found on driver who dozed at red light -- chicagotribune.com

Steven B. Clarke, come on down, you are the latest contestant on who wants to be a bonehead. While stopped at a red light Clarke decided to take a little nap, not an advisable thing to do at the best of times, this was not the best of times. Clarke had a bag of weed on him, and according to police the car smelled of that sweet sweet smell of sticky icky that we all know and love, to make matters worse he was just in front of a police cruiser at the time.

Now I know marijuana can make you drowsy, and I know it impairs your judgment, but come on. Even when I am doing everything right I get ultra paranoid when I see a cop car behind me, how could you just doze off while you had a bag of mary jane on you?

To make matters worse Clarke admitted to police that he smokes a lot of marijuana. Come on, he must have known it is illegal. Just being from Jamaica doesn't make it legal mon, even in Indiana.

Marijuana found on driver who dozed at red light

Neb. deputies say man stuffed cat inside 'bong' - Los Angeles Times

Neb. deputies say man stuffed cat inside 'bong' - Los Angeles Times


Ok, sure the cat was probably fine, it probably made no real difference, but what the hell was this guy thinking. A kitten? Moron.

Assuming this incident actually happened this guy deserves the cruelty charge and then some. One one hand its an ingenious way to hot box, on the other, its a kitten asshole. People like this makes all pot smokers look like assholes.

Siding With The DEA for Once

Legalization of marijuana is an issue that I am passionate about, I believe that if marijuana were legal there would be a serious drop in crime, and under age marijuana users would decline drastically as well. However every now and then a marijuana abuser comes along and knocks the cause back on its heels. Angela Daily from Licking County Ohio is just such a person. Now she is only 16 so perhaps her stupidity can be forgiven and chalked up as a stupid teenager mistake, however the severity of what she allegedly did is so immense that I don’t think so.

This story hit the news because of a pawn transaction. A camcorder was brought into a pawn shop on loan with a tape in it, the pawn shop workers viewed the tape and saw Daily, with the help of an 18 year old unidentified male, forcing a two year old toddler to take marijuana and other unspecified drugs.

If there were ever a case for justifiable life sentence of a marijuana user this is it. First she was dumb enough to allow herself to be video taped doing this despicable act, then she was dumb enough not to make sure the tape was safe. Now on top of that the crime itself is so low that I don’t think anyone is likely to have much sympathy for this girl or her accomplice.

Forcing drugs on anyone is a horrendous act at the best of times, now add to that that this was a two year old child, and suddenly it is compounded a thousand times. Daily faces Child Endangerment and Corrupting a Youth charges, and I hope they throw the book at her. I am rarely on the side of the DEA and the US justice system on marijuana related crimes, but in this case fry her and her cohort.

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What Not To Do: Case #8

Apparently someone was trying to smuggle some porn and weed into a prison and accidentally sent the package to a library.

What Not To Do: Case #7

Taking out Classified Ads on a Public Website

Ok apparently today is the day for finding silly drug bust stories. This is also a case of a dealer using less then intelligent methods for finding clients for his marijuana sales business. Let me remind everyone marijuana is a banned substance, the penalties for selling marijuana are stiff, depending where you live. Advertising in any public way that you are breaking the law is a very dumb move. John Scott of Burlington County New Jersey learned this leason the hard way.

According to The Star Ledger, Scott took out a Craigslist ad advertising “420 shrubs for sale”. Note the clever use of the term 420 instead of marijuana or cannabis, surely no one but potheads would know what that means right? Wrong, of course cops know the terms we give in order to “disguise” pot use. 420 is a common term, very common.

In case you’ve lived under a rock and this is your first day surfing the tubes of the Interweb, well craigslist is a VERY well known classifieds ads site. People post free ads on the site and many people read those ads. Obviously the cops are on to this site and browse it from time to time too. In short caveat venditor, let the seller beware.

What Not To Do: Case #6

Barker Style Sales

So you’ve started university and want to subsidize your partying with a little drug trade on the side. Now you just need customers, where oh were do you find them?

According to the Boston Globe Michael Emery, a now ex student of Northeastern University in the United States, decided to advertise that he and his roommate Matthew Ferrante had marijuana for sale. He did this by yelling out his dorm window “If you're looking for weed, my roommate Ferrante has some for sale.” Now being as this is a university such things would probably go unnoticed, except for the fact that a plainclothes cop was within earshot. The police checked them out and these two students had alcohol and weed in plain sight, the two then allowed the cops to search the dorm and the cops found more weed.

The two are up on possession charges, and they have been turffed from the school. So remember class, when you are looking for customers to sell weed to don’t just go yelling out your window advertising that you have illegal substance available for sale, it’s likely to land you in a spot of trouble.

You Scratch my Back I’ll Scratch Your…

In what has to be the oddest defense I have ever heard of for pot use, a British man was shown leniency by the courts getting a six month deferral on this sentence to show good behaviour.

Gregor Spalding admitted to cultivating marijuana for consumption in his home. Spalding argued that he was growing the plant to ease chronic pain he has experienced over the past three years, that is not an uncommon defense, in fact it is probably the most common defense used by those caught with marijuana possession. Spalding’s doctor wrote a letter to the court confirming Spalding’s ailment, an itching condition known as pruritus, the doctor also told the courts that Spalding could very well have thought marijuana would ease his condition.

I know most of you are reading this saying “what’s so odd about that, it sounds like the typical defense”, and you’d be right. The difference in this case is his ailment, well more accurately where his pruritus, or extreme itchiness, was, Spalding suffered from extreme crotch itch. My sympathies lie with Mr. Spalding, who had the balls to stand up in court and say “I wouldn’t have grown pot if my crotch didn’t itch so damned much”.

What Not To Do: Case #5

Post Pictures of Your Grow-Op on MySpace

So you have a mini grow op in your closet and want to brag about it, you have a MySpace page so why not do it there right? Police often monitor such sites, so don't do it. That is what an 18-year-old Sheboygan kid found out. This kid posted pictures on MySpace of his plants growing and police searched his house and discovered three plants in his closet. Come on people the internet may be unregulated for the most part but cops in the real world keep an eye on things, if you want to brag go to a pot forum and post anonymously, much harder to trace then a MySpace page.

Now THAT'S a Happy Meal

On Tucker and Taz's morning show on FM96 this morning I heard one of the best news stories to date. In Illinois an eight year old girl received a very special treat of the week in her happy meal, a lighter, a pipe, and a bag of pot. It seems an employee accidentally brought his weed with him to work and thinking quick (but not intelligently) hid his stash in a happy meal box which was doled out to a customer accidentally. The parents quite upset (understandably) reported the incident and the employee was fired and is probably facing charges right now. Personally if I was the parent I would have taken the opportunity to discuss drugs and then hidden the stash away for some more appropriate time and "disposed" of it, but that's just me. I am sure a lawsuit will be quick to follow against McD's on this issue, I am sure that's why the issue received so much press already, no other reason for the parents to go running to the press to tell them all about it.

What Not To Do: Case #4

Case #4 Growing Marijuana on Cop's Land

Ok This kid was only 17, so maybe he can be forgiven his blunder. That being said, who in their right mind would consider land owned by the Deputy Chief of Police to be a logical place for an outdoor grow spot. Sure the land was only and investment opportunity and not the cop's residence, but he was bound to spot the plants at some point.

American's Take Marijuana Border Offenses Seriously

I'll never understand why it is some people risk everything to smuggle pot into the United States of America. Here in Canada we are fairly light on marijuana offenses, however the USA takes these things very seriously as one Toronto woman caught smuggling will find out. She was attempting the old pot in the spare tire trick, trust me folks you don't have a brilliant idea doing that, many have tried it, it is an obvious spot to hide stuff.

According to the Brandon Sun Amanda Copeland has been charged with intent to distribute after US Customs agents found 10kgs of ganga "hidden" in the spare tire of her vehicle as she attempted to cross the Peace Bridge. The Erie District Attorneys office will be prosecuting her case.

What Not To Do: Case #3

Case #3: Reported Theft

According to the New Zealand Herald a woman made a call to the police to report a robbery. Apparently some "low-lifes" broke in to this good woman's home and robbed her. The objects stolen were, as she reported to a grinning officer, her three marijuana plants that she was growing outside. Ok people, marijuana is illegal, and the growth of the plants is as well, if you get robbed of your mary jane, do not report the theft to the police.

What Not To Do: Cases #1 & #2

What not to do is going to be an ongoing feature in this blog demonstrating the stupidity of some potheads in order to show the rest of you out there how to avoid jail time for your habit.

Case #1 Check The Barn Door

A Wisconsin man who stashed his pipe and weed in his underwear when he got his car stuck in a ditch and cops came to assist. When the man stepped out of his car they saw his fly undone and asked if he had anything illegal in his pants, they searched him and arrested him for possession. To top it off this bone head was driving when his license was revoked.

Case #2 Avoid Hitting Pigs

A South Carolina man hit a parked police car on a highway in Orangeburg. When the police examined the car they found 43lbs of marijuana, some joints, and some cocaine. He was charged with Driving under the influence, cocaine possession, and marijuana trafficking.