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Weed wish you a merry Christmas: Pot-toting OAPs tell cops 30kg stash is for pressies
The friends and family of an elderly couple from Nebraska may have lost out on their share of almost 30kg of pot this festive season after cops spotted their stash. Police in the US state reportedly sniffed out the loot when they pulled over the pair's pickup truck for driving over the centre line and failing to indicate. …
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Friday 22nd December 2017 15:24 GMT kain preacher
Re: They won't see any jail time.
That much is federal time. Mandatory sentencing . Possession with intent to distribute . 1-20 at the state level drug trafficking 0-20 . At the federal level Drug trafficking can get you life . Possession with intent to distribute at the federal level is a minimum of 5 years.
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Tuesday 26th December 2017 19:01 GMT IceC0ld
Re: They won't see any jail time.
Have you ever been to Nebraska? Not only is any amount of weed illegal, the general population are some serious hillbillies. Let alone the cops.
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the only character I'm aware of from Nebraska is Penny, Penny, Penny ..............
as for their age, it doesn't mean they get to walk, they may do a basic term, but Nebraska doesn't sound like it's on the torist path TBF :o)
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Friday 22nd December 2017 14:16 GMT Bill M
Glaucoma & cannabis
The grandparents of someone I used to know grew cannabis to alleviate the glaucoma that affected their vision and hence their golf.
The grandfather once confided that he was not sure if it actually helped his vision, but after a few tokes he no longer worried about how rubbish his golf was and he certainly enjoyed it more, although now has to carry round a stash of sweeties and crisps dues to the munchies that usually started on the seventh fairway.
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Friday 22nd December 2017 14:18 GMT disgruntled yank
Mighty generous
The use of marijuana is now legal in the District of Columbia. At a paraphernalia store on Columbia Road NW, the electronic sign says says "NO FREE GRASS", followed by "PLEASE DON'T ASK". But ask any politician outside the Atlantic drainage, and some within it: people in the heartland are the salt of the earth, those along the east coast are soulless parasites.
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Friday 22nd December 2017 14:56 GMT DNTP
Alternatives to weed that would have been legal
-27 kg of traditional tobacco products that lobbyists insist are safe
-27 kg (~34 L) of pure ethanol (equivalent about 65L of drinkable whiskey) that is definitely less harmful, less addictive, and less impairing than weed
-27 kg (~2200 rounds) of Patriotic American Terrorist Killer MAGA Special Edition AR-15 rifle ammunition
-27 kg of paperwork (~6000 jobs) embracing glorious free market capitalism by sending jobs offshore
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Saturday 23rd December 2017 07:33 GMT Kevin McMurtrie
Re: Alternatives to weed that would have been legal
They were busted for transporting an absurd quantity of a taxable and controlled product. Alcohol, tobacco, or ammo would have been at least as bad.
A woman was caught in the same area today with over 209 kg of pot. Don't you hate it give everyone the same gift as another family member?
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Friday 22nd December 2017 15:29 GMT Anonymous Coward
It's Grandma Clampett's rheumatism medicine
They airbrushed out the spliff as this was conservative 1960's America, so granny Clampett is missing the other part of her medicine. Highly toxic lab solvents are OK though.
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Thursday 15th February 2018 11:53 GMT 's water music
That's what the Freak Brothers would've done
You are no doubt correct but shirley the PP was thinking of Cheech & Chong's Up in Smoke
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Sunday 24th December 2017 04:31 GMT MachDiamond
The smell
The report stated that the officers could smell the pot as they approached the car. Good grief, I wonder what other people thought as the truck was pulled up at a gas station. Somebody could have become interested and followed them to an area where it could have been taken off of them.
The incident just confirms that most people are incredibly stupid. While pot might be legal in a few states (not in California until 1/1), other states are still rather up tight about it. In Oklahoma they might have been looking at the death penalty for that much. Crossing state lines with taxed/regulated items poses other problems, but most people outside of trucking wouldn't realize that.
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Sunday 24th December 2017 14:50 GMT Fruit and Nutcase
Taxi!
Meanwhile over in Copenhagen, Drug dealer arrested after mistaking police car for taxi