Some marijuana consumers around the U.S may experience shortages or price increases after a sharp increase in the frequency of one ton or more marijuana busts along highways. Avocados, bananas, batteries and toilet paper are just a few of the things police have found more than 29,000 pounds of marijuana hidden inside while conducting searches of tractor trailers already during the month of February. (more…)

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. (more…)

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…)

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…)