Former mayoral candidate gets 18 months for selling pot to cops

(Maple Ridge News) - It was a trickle of tips that piqued the interest of police. The first, received anonymously on 20 April 2004, revealed a Maple Ridge sex shop was selling a lot more than "high-class" porn, flavoured rolling paper and bongs.


The tipster revealed a half kilogram of marijuana was hidden in a fridge at the back of Guilty Pleasures, a store that boasts the "finest in adult entertainment" on 207th Street.


It was information enough to begin an investigation, and so launched a three-month sting that lured the store's owner, William Perry, into selling police officers several grams of potent, but illegal Cannabis sativa – pot.


They detailed all the contents of the shelves in a report to their supervisor: drug pipes and "bongs," big and small; "The Volcano," a special marijuana smoking device; videos and books on how to grow marijuana; nutrients to reap a healthy pot crop; and a petition urging marijuana legalization.


Before the trio left, Perry told them he hated the police and the government. Police actually want crime, he said. More...


"Crime keeps the police employed."

Quarterback Quincy Carter arrested for nothing

(KSLA) - Bossier-Shreveport Battle Wings Quarterback Quincy Carter found himself in trouble with the law Friday.


Carter was arrested and charged with second offense possession of marijuana Friday morning, which is a felony. Carter was stopped around 1 am and the officer smelled alcohol on him. He then took him for a breathalyzer test.


Carter was found not to be driving drunk, but police say he did have about three grams of marijuana in his pants.


Revenue cops need to leave people alone. The man was not driving drunk. He was not infringing upon the liberties of anyone. It does not say why he was pulled over in the first place. Probably because he is black and was out late at night. Now he has a felony charge, yet he has essentially done nothing wrong. Possession of 3-grams worth of plant material. Big deal.

DEA Microgram Bulletin - "Ganja Butter" in San Bernardino, California

"Ganja Butter" in San Bernardino, California

The San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Scientific Investigations Division (California) recently received five mason jars, each containing a thick green liquid covering a layer of apparent minced plant material suspended in a brown liquid, alleged to be an intermediate preparation of “ganja butter” (marijuana extracted with butter; see Photo 1). The exhibits were seized from a refrigerator at a San Bernardino residence by agents from the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department Narcotics Unit, pursuant to a search warrant. Each mason jar contained approximately 400 milliliters of material (combined green liquid and brown liquid), for a net total of approximately 2 liters. Analysis of the green liquid by Duquenois-Levine color test and TLC confirmed the presence of cannabinoids (not quantitated, but primarily THC with small amounts of cannabinol and cannabidiol). The suspect indicated that he was making the “ganja butter” for medicinal use, and that he had been told that ingesting the “butter” was healthier than smoking the marijuana. This is the first such submission to the laboratory.

(http://www.dea.gov/programs/forensicsci/microgram/mg0807/mg0807.html)

Would the THC content from all of those jars even be enough to harm a person?