Posts Tagged ‘marijuana’

The youngest child of reggae legend Bob Marley has admitted growing marijuana in her Philadelphia-area home.
The Daily Local News of West Chester reports 29-year-old Makeda Jahnesta Marley pleaded guilty Tuesday to having nearly a dozen large marijuana plants inside her home in Caln, about 30 miles west of Philadelphia.
Marley was arrested in 2008 after police [...]

It has been reported that social-networking site Facebook has blocked the use of ads which aim for marijuana legalization, despite originally approving the ads on the website last week.
Do you think they should be allowed or not?

Authorities found 52 pounds of marijuana hidden in a tombstone at CVG last week.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers working at the Cincinnati DHL express consignment operation say they seized the marijuana en route from Kingston, Jamaica to London, England.
Officers first asked when they came upon the tombstone, “Why would someone ship a tombstone?”

Smoke shops throughout state are hoping a new law, regulating what they can sell, will go up in smoke.
Thirty shops have sued to block enforcement of the rules, which took effect in July, and eventually to kill them.
The law, passed in the last legislative session, makes it a misdemeanor for a smoke shop to [...]

Anticipating California voters will back a November ballot measure to legalize casual marijuana use, officials in Oakland have approved two tax rates on pot sales in their city, already a hub of the state’s medicinal marijuana scene.
Oakland’s city council on Monday night approved the rates — a 5 percent gross receipts tax on licensed marijuana [...]

Alexander M. Lemke, of Palm Harbor, must have had a wild case of midnight munchies.
Lemke, 20, broke into a neighbor’s home and stole their 2005 Toyota Solara at about 1:25 a.m. Friday, then headed to a McDonald’s drive-through window, reports the St. Petersburg Times.
Deputies were summoned.
That’s because Lemke tried to trade marijuana and [...]

In  88 years, Florence Siegel has learned how to relax: A glass of red wine. A crisp copy of The New York Times, if she can wrest it from her husband. Some classical music, preferably Bach. And every night like clockwork, she lifts a pipe to her lips and smokes marijuana.
Long a fixture among young [...]

30 Pounds of Pot Found Inside Pictures of Jesus

Posted: 11th February 2010 by Sus Scrofa in Crime
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CNN – A marijuana bust along the U.S.-Mexico border revealed 30 pounds of the drug stuffed into framed pictures of Jesus Christ, the U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency said Wednesday.
“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 [...]

The first step to legalize marijuana in California is on a roll.
Lawmakers on Tuesday approved Assembly Bill 390 — legislation to tax and regulate marijuana. The Assembly’s Public Safety Committee voted 4-3 on bill at a hearing in Sacramento. The bill will now be passed to the full Assembly on Friday for consideration.

Police Steal Marijuana from Woman

Posted: 9th December 2009 by Veritas in Crime, Oddly Enough
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Three South African police officers were arrested after a woman complained that they had stolen her marijuana, SAPA news agency reported on Monday.
Police said the 37-year-old woman came to a police station in a Pretoria township to complain about the missing drugs.

Police said whoever donated a water jug to a charity in southeast Ohio probably didn’t mean to be so generous. The jug contained about $1,500 worth of marijuana. Police said workers at a local Goodwill Industries site recently found four bags of marijuana when they looked inside a water jug left outside by an anonymous [...]