Todd A. Clark, 51, was told by family members to stop smoking marijuana in the house, allegedly reacted by grabbing a samurai sword and attacking his brother-in-law in the face.

While the stick-in-their-asses drug warriors will blame this on marijuana, I know what the real culprit is. The sad condition that is being born and raised in Steelers Country.

Via Penn Live:

Who says marijuana isn’t dangerous? A Westmoreland County man who was told by family members to put out the pot he was smoking in his bedroom allegedly reacted by grabbing a decorative samurai sword and striking his brother-in-law in the face.

TribLive.com reports that Todd A. Clark, 51, who is missing his left arm, was arraigned on charges of attempted homicide, simple assault, possession of a prohibited offensive weapon and two counts of aggravated assault filed by Monessen city police in the Thursday morning incident.

Clark’s brother-in-law, identified as Bill Garey, was struck with the 3-foot sword across the bridge of the nose and was treated and released with stitches on his nose and above his right eyebrow… Read More…

Sad but true.

Stole this from Wirecutter.

Yes, you read that headline correctly.

Police officers raid the Sky High Collective pot dispensary in Santa Ana in May in this screenshot of a video taken by security cameras. A lawsuit, filed last week in Orange County Superior Court by three unidentified police officers and the Santa Ana Police Officers Association, seeks to prevent Santa Ana Police Department internal affairs investigators from using the video as they sort out what happened during the May 26 raid of Sky High Collective.

On May 26th the Santa Ana, California, Police Department conducted a raid of a medical marijuana dispensary. According to a lawsuit filed by Sky High Holistic, operators of the medical marijuana collective, the raid was captured by secret surveillance cameras set up in the shop. The lawsuit states that during the raid officers were “intentionally destructive and destroyed video surveillance equipment, safes, furniture, fixtures, doors and other property.” They claim damages in excess of $100,000.

In addition to showing officers allegedly making derogatory comments about a disabled women, the surveillance video also purports to show officers snacking on some pot-laced brownies.

Via The Orange County Register:

A lawsuit, filed last week in Orange County Superior Court by three unidentified police officers and the Santa Ana Police Officers Association, seeks to prevent Santa Ana Police Department internal affairs investigators from using the video as they sort out what happened during the May 26 raid of Sky High Collective.

Lawyers for police and the dispensary said the video – which has been widely seen on television and several online news sites, including ocregister.com – could play a key role in the ongoing investigation into the officers’ actions.

The lawyers disagree about the video’s accuracy and authenticity.

Matthew Pappas, a lawyer for Sky High, pointed to the irony of police seeking to shoot down the use of video as evidence in an investigation when they routinely use videos to investigate other crimes.

“It’s pretty pathetic for police to say if we don’t like something that it can’t be used as evidence,” Pappas said.

Corey W. Glave, a Hermosa Beach attorney representing the Santa Ana Police Officers Association and the three officers, said the video was taken without the officers’ knowledge and was handled by Pappas, among others, prior to being made public.

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After entering the building, police are seen dismantling video cameras inside the store.

After most of the cameras are taken down, a camera they didn’t detect shows the officers talking about a woman with an amputated left leg who at the time of the raid was in her wheelchair inside the dispensary.

“Did you punch that one-legged old Benita,” a male officer asks a female officer, apparently referring to the woman in the wheelchair.

“I was about to kick her in her (expletive) nub,” the female officer replies, according to subtitles with the video.

In another clip – which Pappas has titled “Officers eating edibles and playing darts” – a voice can be heard asking, “What flavor?” before an officer is seen unwrapping a small package and putting something in his mouth.

The lawsuit argues that the video doesn’t paint a fair version of events. The suit also claims the video shouldn’t be used as evidence because, among other things, the police didn’t know they were on camera.

“All police personnel present had a reasonable expectation that their conversations were no longer being recorded and the undercover officers, feeling that they were safe to do so, removed their masks,” says the suit. Read More…

So basically what they are saying is that they shouldn’t be charged with anything because they thought they destroyed all the evidence.

Lol. And these are the people that are supposed to uphold the law.

Subway trying to steal customers away from Taco Bell…

Sometime during November of 2013, a UPS Store employee in Richmond, California, turned over a package of marijuana, that had arrived to Police Officer Joe Avila.

Richmond police officer Joe Avila (right), won’t face charges after 5 lbs. of marijuana was uncovered in his home. Photo by Kristopher Skinner.

After accepting the package, Avila radioed dispatch to inform them that a formal report of the incident would follow.

That incident report was never filed and the package, which contained about 4-5 pounds of marijuana, never made its way to the police evidence locker.

Five pounds of the wacky tobacky, is almost eighty times greater then the minimum amount needed to face jail time for possession. This past September, the drugs were found in Officer Avila’s home, today the District Attorney’s office decided that no charges would be pressed against the 17-year veteran of the force.

Via The Costa Contra Times:

RICHMOND — A Richmond police officer found with marijuana in his home earlier this year likely won’t be charged with a crime, authorities said, but his future on the police force is undetermined.

Veteran K-9 officer Joe Avila has been on paid administrative leave since September, pending an internal investigation, officials in the Richmond Police Department said.

The Contra Costa County District Attorney’s Office has been investigating since the case came to its attention earlier this year but is not inclined to file charges, said Robin Lipetzky, the county’s chief public defender. According to Lipetzky, the decision likely stems from evidence not strong enough to produce a conviction. Read More…

Avila’s excuse, that his union backed him up on, was that he took the mary jane home to “train” his police dog. Just another case of those entrusted with enforcing the law, being allowed to break the law

So, now that the voters in Washington have legalized the recreational use of marijuana, it’s about time that someone who you would normally not expect to partake in such activities, gets filmed doing it.

Some dudes decided to take the grandmas, give them some weed and have them play Cards Against Humanity and then film it.

One of the funniest things I have seen in a long time. I almost lost it at “Pussy Farts: The Musical.”

I love ironic mugshots.

Via WGAU:

CAPE CORAL, Florida — In the world of ironic mugshot photos, this one takes the cake.

According to police reports, Micah David Dailey, 20, of Cape Coral, Florida was arrested on October 28 for marijuana and drug equipment possession.

It should come as no surprise since he was appropriately dressed for the occasion, wearing a green T-shirt with the Monopoly board game phrase ‘Go Directly to Jail.’ Read More…

46-year-old Victor Thompson first became internet famous back in 2008 just before the lead up to Super Bowl XLII where the New York Giants stunned the undefeated New England Patriots.

Victor Thompson, 46, arrested for possession of Spice, the synthetic marijuana.

Thompson, formerly of Laconia, New Hampshire, a huge Patriots fan got tattooed a replica (not very good quality) of a his favorite team’s helmet permanently etched into his skull a week before the Super Bowl loss.

His 15 minutes of fame weren’t up just yet, as in July of 2008 he was back in the news, having had launched a website where he planned to collect $200.00 and in return he would grant the purchaser one square inch on his body to have whatever they wanted tattooed on him.

“I’m getting paid to do what I like to do best,” said Victor Thompson, who is charging $200 per square inch of tattooed advertisement. “It’s a one-time fee and it’s a lifetime advertisement.”

Now 6 years later it seems that Thompson’s fifteen minutes of fame is still not over as he’s back in the news for a drug arrest.

Last September 10th, in St. Petersburg, Florida, where he recently moved to, police arrested Thompson for possession of Spice, the synthetic marijuana. Thompson told cops that he did not know that the synthetic ganja was illegal in Florida, claiming that it was “still legal in New Hampshire,” his home state.

Thompson was charged with felony drug possession and trespassing, a misdemeanor. He is being held in the Pinellas County jail in lieu of $1500 bond.

Talk about a fitting name.

Paul Scott Stoner, 42, of Unionville, VA arrested and charged with growing marijuana.

Via WISTV:

ORANGE, Va. (AP) – A Virginia man with the last name Stoner is facing drug charges after police found more than $10,000 worth of marijuana plants at his home.

The Orange County Sheriff’s Office says 42-year-old Paul Scott Stoner of Unionville is charged with growing marijuana and having a firearm while in possession of more than a pound of marijuana.

Media outlets report that the charges stem from an ongoing investigation related to the alleged sale of marijuana to children in Orange County. Further charges are pending. Read More…

This story proves that the best way to keep kids away from drugs, is to make them “uncool.”

Kurt Britz cleans jars that will hold recreational marijuana at 3D Cannabis Center in Denver, December 30 2013. (RJ Sangosti, The Denver Post)

Studies by the Colorado Department of Public Health & Environment have shown that teen ganja use has gone down slightly since the state legalized recreational pot-smoking in 2012.While the dropdown is only about 2 percentage points down from before weed smoking became legal, it is still a far cry from the claims of the drug warriors that legalization would destroy America’s youth.

Via The Washington Examiner:

“Even if it’s not statistically significant, Colorado is bucking the nationwide trend,” said Mason Tvert, communications director for the Marijuana Policy Project. “You couldn’t argue that marijuana use is somehow worse among teens in Colorado than other states or the nation as a whole.”

Another data point that should hearten Colorado’s concerned parents, via the Phoenix New Times: National teen marijuana consumption has gone up a few points in the previous years; so Colorado’s high schoolers don’t seem to have hiked up their pot consumption since it became legal. Thus, legal-weed opponents seeking data that indicates legalization hurts teens may have to look elsewhere.

While these results might surprise some, they haven’t really raised eyebrows in Colorado’s cannabis business community. Kayvan Khalatbari, a businessman who co-founded the state’s second-oldest marijuana dispensary, said people shouldn’t have expected teen weed consumption to go up after legalization.

“Cannabis, now that it’s legal, kind of is an old person’s drug,” he said. “It’s something that kids are seeing adults use all over the place. It just doesn’t seem as cool to kids anymore.” Read More…

Lady garden’s are not for hiding things. Being a man, I don’t have one of course, but somehow I don’t believe that kitty was meant to be used in that way. That didn’t stop Ericka Marie Danna, 25, of Oklahoma City, who was arrested last Saturday night for disturbing the peace, from using her hooha to hide her pipe.

25-year-old Ericka Marie Danna, really attached to her favorite weed pipe.

Police were called to a home in the 3500 block of NW 17th Street on Saturday to a disturbance outside the home. When they arrived, they arrested 25-year-old Ericka Marie Danna for disturbing the peace.

They took her to the Oklahoma County Jail where she was searched. That’s when officials say they found a pipe in the woman’s body cavity. Police say the pipe smelled of marijuana.

I just have two questions. 1) how deep of a body cavity search was it that they found something lodged up her love tunnel and 2) who in the heck sniffed it after it was pulled out?

Snoop Lion, the former Snoop Dogg, who went through a Rastafarian re-awakening early last year in which he re-imagined himself as a Reggae artist has an app available in both iTunes and Android versions. That is not a very odd thing as many entertainers also have mobile apps as a way to push their brand and make some extra cash. The Snoopify app is free to purchase but comes with a lot of paid in-app add ons.

One of these in app purchases, is a digital sticker of a marijuana joint — which being a Snoop Lion app should come as no surprise. That is until you get to the price tag.

According to the Wall Street Journal:

Snoopify, an app that stamps your photographs with stickers themed around Snoop Lion—the rapper also known as Snoop Dogg—is selling one sticker called “Golden Jay” for $99.99.

Yes, that is one penny shy of $100.

The jay—a word often associated with marijuana—emits a puff of colorful smoke and is adorned with sparkles. And it has been purchased at least 15 times, since its debut last week, the company says.

I am all for free-market capitalism and hey if that’s what people are willing to pay, that’s what they are willing to pay. But damn, you have to be really, really baked to spend a hundred bucks on a joint you can’t even smoke.

Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX)

I just read over at Reason, that according to the Marijuana Policy Project, Barney Frank and Ron Paul plan on teaming up tomorrow (not the kind of team up that Rep. Frank usually likes though) to introduce a piece of legislation that would end the Federal prohibition of marijuana.

WASHINGTON, DC – Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA) and Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) will introduce bi-partisan legislation tomorrow, June 23, ending the federal war on marijuana and letting states legalize, regulate, tax, and control marijuana without federal interference. Other co-sponsors include Rep. John Conyers (D-MI), Rep. Steve Cohen (D-TN), Rep. Jared Polis (D-CO), and Rep. Barbara Lee (D-CA). The legislation would limit the federal government’s role in marijuana enforcement to cross-border or inter-state smuggling, allowing people to legally grow, use or sell marijuana in states where it is legal.

The legislation is the first bill ever introduced in Congress to end federal marijuana prohibition.

Rep. Bawney Fwank (D-MA)

Leading critics of the war on marijuana will explain its significance for state and national marijuana policy at a national tele-press conference on Thursday.

Now 1) this “potential legislation” does not affect me in any way as I do not partake in the enjoyment of Mary Jane (though I used to,) 2) I would never vote for either of these two ass clowns and 3) this bill has about as much of a chance of passing as I have of making it with Christina Hendricks —- I fully support the idea of it and say that it is about damn time.

And any of my fellow “conservatives” on the right leaning side of the political spectrum who oppose this bill — you are idiots, and are not true Conservatives. I won’t even get into the argument about how the “war on drugs” is a forty year old joke that is nothing but a ridiculous waste of tax payer money and has done more to actually increase drug use in this country then to stop it.

It all comes down to federalism and states rights, which is something we on the right are supposed to be champions of. This proposed legislation  makes too much sense — which sadly is why it won’t pass.