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In August, Spark Report featured a story about Riverside, California police making a huge bust which netted over 25,000 pounds of marijuana. It all went down after a deputy pulled over a 18-wheel truck near Temecula, California for an illegal lane change. Deputies opened the trailer and found pallets of marijuana stacked to the ceiling.
New Jersey recently became the 14th state to approve an effective medical marijuana law. There are actually 31 states plus the District of Columbia that have medical marijuana laws recognizing the medical benefits but most are not generally recognized because they rely on the national government to provide or authorize a legal supply of marijuana. Some advocacy groups recognize Maryland as a 15th state because they have what the Marijuana Policy Project calls a “working law” which lets patients obtain a recommendation from a doctor but only protects patients from jail time and not fines.
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Police in Columbia, South Carolina executed 3 search warrants on Thursday and found more than 2,800 pounds of marijuana and hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash.
A traffic stop on Wednesday led officers to conduct a search at the first house where swat team members found 1 suspect with a semi-automatic handgun and a house full of packaged marijuana (pictured). The marijuana was bundled into 20 pound packages and the final weight has yet to be calculated.
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As many polls are showing the majority of Americans desire to legalize marijuana, one Kansas republican is focusing his efforts to ban anything that looks like marijuana. Legal synthetic weed, sold under many different brands, is made from dry herbs that are advertised to give similar effects of real marijuana without the legal risk. Kansas state Rep. Robert Olsen introduced a bill this week to ban a specific brand of synthetic weed called K2, which he believes poses a risk to kids.
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Tracy Thurman, 42, was arrested in Murray, Utah after an assistant principal at Hillcrest Junior High School found a pipe in her son’s locker. The 14-year-old reportedly told the assistant principal that the pipe was his and his mother provides him with marijuana, which netted his mother a felony child endangerment charge, after she confessed.