I got a lot of great entries in our latest Pass the Stash contest.  The contest was to see which listener got busted with the smallest amount of pot.  Many of you have been harassed or arrested for less than a gram or even “specks”:

Darral in Washington: I had less than one half gram of marijuana in a film container, when the motorcycle officer felt it in my pocket he asked, “what’s this”  I told him it was film and not to open it but he did, and took me to jail.

Darral, next time get an attorney.  If you refused to consent to a search of that container and he searched anyway, your charges could’ve been dismissed by the judge.

Adam in Tennesee: Imagine you had three nicely rolled joints in a baggy, you remove the j’s from the bag and you got an empty baggy with like 3 specks of shake that fell out of the joints.  The complaint affidavit states I had a “bag containing a residue amount of green leafy material was found”.

Gomyo in Japan: At the station they questioned me for another ten hours or so and showed me the supposed evidence they had found in my car. They had gotten it out of the ashtray. They actually went searching through the ash under a microscope, or whatever, finding a speck about the size of the tip of a pencil lead that they assured me had been tested and was indeed MARIJUANA.

Brandon didn’t enter the contest, but he did pass along this story:

This is a story from Dubai, United Arab Emirates (hell on earth for potheads) where a man traveling from Britain was sentenced to 4 years in Dubai prison after a speck of marijuana weighing less than a grain of sugar was found in the tread of his shoe. In all it was an amount of .003 grams.

But my winner today is Jimmy from Oregon.  Jimmy’s a registered grower and caregiver in the Oregon Medical Marijuana Program and yet still, he was charged and fined $300 for possession of a baggie with “sticky residue” on it.  Thanks to everyone who played Pass the Stash… and if you have any suggestions for our next contest, send them in to stash@norml.org.

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