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Idaho authorities bust a dozen head shops
Idaho has some of the toughest statutes in the nation regarding paraphernalia and simple pot smoking. Merely being in a place where people smoke pot is a misdemeanor worth 3 months in jail. If you are found to be stoned in public, you can get 6 months in jail. Being caught with a pot pipe (with no pot) can get you a year in prison. If you’re caught with some pot, there’s another year in prison. If you do any of this around a child, the crimes rise to a felony with 5 years in prison. Selling pipes, bongs, grinders, and kief boxes in Idaho is a felony worthy of nine years in prison and a $30,000 fine.
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Bong hit at red light earns Canadian man attention of police van idling next to him
The officer watched in amazement as the 20-year-old man grabbed his bong, loaded it with pot, then took a hoot “with the policeman right there, not more than five feet away, watching everything that was going on,” Kelowna RCMP spokesman Const. Steve Holmes told reporters this morning.
Bomb squad called to blow up bong
RICHMOND, CA (KGO) — After four tense hours in Richmond Sunday night, a police bomb squad safely disposed of what they thought was a pipe bomb found in front of a 19th Street home. The mysterious metal cylinder was capped at one end and had a pin attached to its side. Bomb experts from Walnut [...]
Minnesota Supreme Court rules bong water is a drug
(Minneapolis Star-Tribune) Bong water can count as a controlled substance, the Minnesota Supreme Court ruled Thursday in a decision that raises the threat of longer sentences for drug smokers who fail to dump the water out of their pipes. In a 4-3 decision Thursday, the state’s highest court said a person can be prosecuted for [...]
Bong Hits 4 Ashcroft
The winner of the most creative marijuana protest act of 2009 so far… Trevor Titman! Browsing through the University of Texas newspaper I saw that John Ashcroft was scheduled to speak at the University. I had the idea of taking the photo almost immediately. I wanted to protest the drug policy of the justice department [...]
Sheriff Leon Lott building case against Michael Phelps
As many as eight people have been arrested on drug charges in an effort to build a marijuana possession case against Olympic swimming champion Michael Phelps, an attorney for one of the defendants confirmed this morning. Longtime Columbia attorney Dick Harpootlian said Richland County Sheriff’s deputies arrested his client – whom he declined to identify [...]
South Carolina’s Sheriff Lott arrests eight in Michael Phelps bong photo case
COLUMBIA, SC (WIS) – New details have emerged about a party where Olympic champion Michael Phelps was spotted. [Sheriff Leon] Lott says the picture indicated a law was being broken in his jurisdiction. He said he couldn’t ignore the violation just because Phelps is rich and famous. We’ve now learned that since investigators began trying [...]
Stash for Mon, Feb 2, 2009
Download the NORML Daily Audio Stash for 2009-02-02 Well, wasn’t THAT one hell of a Super Bowl? I was pulling for the Cards and thought my 23-21 Steelers-miss-last-second-FG prediction was going to be pretty darn close. But what do you know, a stoner goes and catches the game winning last minute touchdown and is voted [...]
Phelps Apologizes for Marijuana Use
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Olympic great Michael Phelps has acknowledged ”regrettable” behavior and ”bad judgment” after a photo in a British newspaper showed him smoking marijuana. In a statement released to The Associated Press, the swimmer who won a record eight gold medals at the Beijing Games conceded the authenticity of the exclusive picture published [...]