Drugs: November 2007 Archives

... apparently the drug does make you mellow. It so relaxed Scott Snow that the Danbury, Conn., man had no qualms about walking into the local police department puffing on a blunt. Quoth Fox News:

Capt. Robert Myles says Scott Snow walked into the station early Saturday and blew smoke from his cigar into a small opening in the bullet-resistant glass separating desk officers from the public.

Myles says the 24-year-old man was told there's no smoking inside the building and he allegedly stubbed out the cigar on the counter.

Officers came out and smelled the distinctive odor of marijuana and arrested Snow.

Police say they found more alleged marijuana in Snow's pants. He has been released after posting bond.

I love the term, "alleged marijuana." Hey, maybe it's just medicine!

The San Francisco Chronicle has a wonderfully entertaining piece about two Berkeley 20-somethings who decided to open a "medical" marijuana business, which they named "Compassionate Collective of Alameda County."

Well, compassion has been good to these guys. Their business grossed $26.3 million in the first six months of this year alone. But dealing drugs is tricky business, as the Chronicle reports:

Two years ago, on Super Bowl Sunday, a team of armed hoods busted into the dispensary, tied everyone up and robbed the place of about $50,000.

Four months later, a masked gunman fired four shots into a dispensary worker's car as he pulled into the parking lot. The worker hit the gas and plowed through a fence to make his getaway.

In July of this year, one of the club's customers was ambushed and killed at a nearby gas station and his pot taken.

And this past February, the brothers themselves were involved in a shootout at a Fremont hotel.

"These girls lured them to a party through MySpace," Rosenthal said. "Six guys showed up heavily armed and the bullets started flying."

Both brothers were wounded, and both have had to undergo repeated operations.

I'm all in favor of giving marijuana to sick people who can truly use it, but with dopers getting rich, bogus prescriptions gladly written, and crime following, could it be any more clear that the medical-marijuana experiment in California has failed?