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. (more…)

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. (more…)

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. (more…)

Florida Police received a tip about a small marijuana grow in a vacant wooded lot in the Florida Keys. With nobody to tie to the grow, police investigators took the plants and half jokingly decided to leave a ransom note in a last ditch effort to make an arrest.

“Thanks for the grow! You want them back? Call for the price [phone number]. We’ll talk.” (more…)

Only 11 months ago, in the first week of February, Spark Report launched with a simple mission: Report on the marijuana industry. While there’s no shortage of marijuana related websites, Spark Report has had a successful 2009 by providing unique analysis of the marijuana industry that drew more than just marijuana enthusiasts to the site.

During Spark Report’s extended holiday vacation, I have compiled a list of the 10 most popular posts of 2009. This list represents Spark Report’s core content focus as well as what our readers like. Expect more great content in 2010, including the much anticipated public launch of SparkPrice.com. Happy New Year! (more…)