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 [...]
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Bob Marley’s Daughter Pleads Guilty to Growing Marijauna in Philiadelphia
Posted: 8th September 2010 by Sus Scrofa in Crime, LifestyleTags: bob marley, caln, daily local news, daughter, domestic dispute, grow house, growing marijauna, growing marijuana, marijuana, marijuana growers, marijuana plants, marijuana possession, Mekeda Marley, philadelphia area, Pot, probation, schindler, smoke weed, source article, trust fund, weed, west chester
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52 lbs of Marijuana Found in Tombstone
Posted: 24th August 2010 by Sus Scrofa in CrimeTags: anomalies, concealment, consignment, customs and border protection, dhl express, drug smugglers, enforcement operations, field operations, found, great lengths, interdiction, international parcels, kingston jamaica, marijuana, Pot, pounds, ray examination, source article, tombstone, u s customs and border protection, weed, X-ray
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?”
Florida Smoke Shops Sue State Over Law Restricting Pipe Sales
Posted: 9th August 2010 by Sus Scrofa in Lifestyle, PoliticsTags: addictions, boca raton, bong, darryl rouson, dismal failure, Florida, glass blower, head shop, joseph abruzzo, legislative session, margate, marijuana, misdemeanor, pipe, recovering drug addict, smoke, smoke shop, smoke shops, st. petersburg, state rep, state tax revenue, tobacco shops, weed, wellington
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 [...]
Man Tries To Trade Illegal Drugs For Burgers At McDonald’s
Posted: 27th July 2010 by Sus Scrofa in FifsTags: alprazolam, burger, burgers, cheesburger, clonazepam, county sheriff, deputies, drugs, hydrocodone, illegal drugs, lemke, marijuana, mcdonald, mcdonalds, midnight munchies, motor vehicle, neighbor, oxycodone, palm harbor, possession, prescription drugs, source article, st petersburg times, toyota solara, weed
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 [...]
Marijuana Use by Seniors Increases as Boomers Age
Posted: 22nd February 2010 by Sus Scrofa in LifestyleTags: baby boomers, marijuana, Pot, senior citizen, weed
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 CrimeTags: drugs, Jesus Christ, marijuana, Pot, weed
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 [...]
California Set to Pass Bill Legalizing Marijuana
Posted: 13th January 2010 by Veritas in Economy | Finance, Lifestyle, PoliticsTags: California, drug, marijuana, Pot, weed
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 EnoughTags: marijuana, police, Pot, south africa, weed
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.
Charity Workers Find a Pound of Marijuana in a Donated Jug
Posted: 3rd December 2009 by Sus Scrofa in Lifestyle, Oddly EnoughTags: charity, donation, marijuana, Ohio, Pot, weed
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 [...]