An eighth grader at a Queens public school has been accused of selling pot brownies to her Junior High classmates. Officials say at least 20 students bought the marijuana-laced brownies from a female student, who sold them for $3 each, or two for $5. Some parents were so agitated and upset, they lapsed into talking like it was happy hour at a '20s speakeasy: “They slipped my son a mickey,” one such angry mom, who didn’t want her name used, told the Daily News. “How come nobody noticed these kids were high?”
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Junior High Times: Middle Schooler Sold Classmates Pot Brownies
NYC Still Marijuana Arrest Capital Of The World: Arrests Rose Again Last Year
The NYPD made more than 50,680 arrests for low-level marijuana offenses in 2011, once again making low-level pot possession the number one cause of arrest in NYC. 2011 was the second-highest period for marijuana arrests in New York City history, and this despite NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly specifically ordering officers to stop arresting people who bring small quantities of marijuana into open view during a stop-and-frisk. In a September memo, Kelly told officers, "A crime will not be charged to an individual who is requested or compelled to engage in the behavior that results in the public display of marijuana." Unfortunately, most hippies were too stoned to read all the way the bottom of the memo, where Kelly included a photo of himself winking slyly.
Bronx Pot Farm Had Street Value Of $7.5 Million
Yesterday, police raided a Bronx building which happened to house a five-story marijuana growing operation. Around 800 plants were seized, the equivalent of over 1500 pounds, including 75 pounds of dried marijuana. And the street value? Oh, around $7.5 million.
Buzz Kill: Cops Seize 800 Marijuana Plants From 5-Story Bronx Home
A five-story grow house in the Bronx was raided by police. Narcotics detectives, who were tipped off from someone in the community about the 610 Morris Park Avenue home, took 800 plants, some of them were 6 feet tall.
Snap, Crackle, Pot: Police Say EV Dealer Sold Pot Krispie Treats
A pot bust on Wednesday in Manhattan gave the Post the chance to crack wise today: "Pot vendor a 'cereal' dealer," the tabloid crows this morning. Why? Because the dealer in question wasn't just selling bud—he was also allegedly selling pot Rice Krispies Treats—get it? "I guess these guys wanted to take care of the high and the munchies all at once," a hilarious anonymous law enforcement source joked to the paper.
Pot Grow House Allegedly Sparks Three-Alarm Fire In Yonkers
Police say that three-alarm fire in a Yonkers apartment building yesterday morning was caused by a marijuana grow house. The Journal News reports, "Twenty-four people, 12 adults and 12 children, from 11 families, including the unidentified suspect, were left homeless following the three-alarm blaze at 81 Van Cortlandt Park Ave."
World's Coolest TSA Agent Lets Flier Keep Weed, But Leaves A Note
TSA agents write the darndest notes! Hot on the heels of the agent who left a note in a woman's bag next to her vibrator that said "GET YOUR FREAK ON GIRL" (and was later punished for it) comes this hilarious note that appeared in Freddie Gibbs's bag earlier this week. Is pot not a problem for some TSA agents?
Low-Level Pot Arrests Decrease Slightly After NYPD Order
In the wake of NYC being controversially labelled the low-level pot arrest capital of the world, NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly released a memo in September sternly reminding his officers to stop falsely charging people for possessing marijuana in public view if individuals removed it from their pocket under the order of a police officer. Since that memo was released, marijuana arrests have dropped 13 percent. But advocates say that isn't enough, and that the NYPD still hasn't come close to addressing the other systematic problems.
Father Of Baby Shot In Face Arrested With 66 Bags Of Crack & Cocaine
The father of the 21-month old girl who was shot in the face in the crossfire of a Staten Island shootout in September was caught yesterday with 66 baggies of crack and cocaine strapped to his genitals with a rubber band. Michael Bailey, 28, was stopped by police for erratic driving yesterday, and arrested for pot possession—but when police searched him, they found the other narcotics. “I do what I have to, to make money and survive,” Bailey allegedly told police, according to the Post.
SI Man Dies After Cop Catches Him Smoking Pot In Bathroom
Corey Holmes, the 39-year-old man who died after a strange scuffle with an NYPD officer on the College of Staten Island campus yesterday, had been working at the CUNY school's cafeteria for ten years. The city medical examiner will be performing an autopsy on Holmes today, which will hopefully help answer how a possibly-pot related dispute led to the death of a man.
It's Totally Cool For Your Dog And Cat To Smoke Pot, Brah (Says Vet, PETA)
You know how that d-bag you briefly dated while under the influence of Natural Light and JELL-O shots would totally get his dog high by exhaling his schwag weed into its face? That guy was such a jerk, why did you ever even date him? Anyway, today we came across this article that he probably wrote, saying it's totally chill for dogs to get high. According to one local vet sourced in the piece, "it’s perfectly ok for your dog to smoke marijuana. He can even take bong hits. He just can’t eat it.”
Study: Legalizing Medical Marijuana Would NOT Turn Teens Into Potheads!
According to a new study out of Brown University, legalizing medical marijuana would most likely not turn all of America's teenagers into potheads. The study compared rates of marijuana use in Massachusetts to those in Rhode Island—where medical marijuana was legalized in 2006—and found that it had no influence on teens’ drug habits. We guess this means alarmists will have to start blaming teen pot use on the return of Beavis and Butthead.
Tenant May Sue Landlord For Narcing Him Out Of Apartment
A Murray Hill resident facing eviction is threatening to file a class-action lawsuit against his landlord, who continues to complain about the "odor of marijuana" emanating from his apartment. Sebastian Rosario claims that he'll sue the owner of 340 E. 34th Street for harassment and threatening to kick him out. In court papers obtained by the Post, the landlord alleges that neighbors complain of "strong smoke odors, including the odor of marijuana" around Rosario's aparment. Wait, people smoke marijuana INSIDE their apartments?
New Jersey's Medical Marijuana Program Stuck In A Rut, No Thanks To Feds
New Jersey's once-lauded medical marijuana initiative, which passed in 2010, is now indefinitely ensnared in bureaucracy. Initially supposed to begin this summer, governor Chris Christie put off launching the non-profit dispensaries for three months for the health department to investigate, and now it's uncertain when they'll open. The Star-Ledger seemingly crippled the opening of one clinic thanks to its ties to a Ponzi-schemer, and now they report that the Foundation Harmony dispensary cites bogus diplomas from dubious universities and has a medical advisor who once faced fraud allegations in New York.
Pot-Shaped Candy: Harmless Reefer Homage Or Addictive Gateway Treat?
Kids these days. If they're not sucking down the Four Lokos, they're rotting their teeth on pot-shaped candy instead. Say goodbye to candy cigarettes and hello to pot-shaped suckers.
Dummy Turnstile Jumper Caught With Loaded Gun, Weed
Pro Tip: if you're going to haul your pot stash AND a loaded gun around with you while you're traversing the city, you should probably go ahead and invest in a Metrocard. Turnstile freeloader Tyrell Thomas was nabbed in a Brooklyn subway station yesterday evening with those two items on him. Could the turnstile have had some "unexplainable" affect that blocked the oxygen to his brain?
Video: Brooklyn Rapper Waxes Poetic About Welfare Abuse
Conservatives have been up in arms all week over a rapper who seemingly glorifies the decadent lifestyle of food stamps and welfare. Stanley Lafleur, aka rapper Mr EBT (H-Man), watched as the video for his single "My EBT," which joyously depicts him using his government-issued Electronic Benefit Transfer card to pay for junk food, went viral this week after Drudge Report and other conservative bloggers held it up as The Reason This Country Is Going To Hell (not the champagne toasts). But Lafleur tells the News that conservatives just don't get his message: "I couldn't believe people are hating on me like I'm rubbing the benefit card in the face of taxpayers. They don't get it. My video is a parody."
Atlantic City Marijuana Bust Reveals Pet ALLIGATORS
Atlantic City police thought they were dealing with a normal marijuana bust when they raided an alleged drug dealer’s home Friday. They seized a pound of weed, a gun, hollow point bullets, and money which they believe is profit from the suspect's pot-dealing business. Oh, and they also found two pet alligators.
Joe "Danger" Jonas Smokes MARIJUANA At Soho Club
Back in June, triple threat Joe Jonas (musician/thespian/HOTTIEPANTS) was given a chilly reception sharing a bill with, uh, Swiss Beatz, as Williamsburg's finest pelted the Disney star with Nerf balls. But if only those evil hipsters kept their minds as open as their nostrils in the Woods' bathrooms, they'd see that Joe Jonas is totally on the level: he smokes dope!
Weed Enthusiast Can't Change Name To "NJWeedman.com"
NJ-born Robert Edward Forchion is a staunch and dedicated marijuana activist who has participated in just about every weed-related activity there is: he's a practicing Rastafarian who has opened up his own temple, he's been a "marijuana smuggler," he's operated a medical marijuana dispensary, and he's run for political office several times unsuccessfully with pot platforms. More recently, he's been fighting to legally change his name to NJWeedman.com. But The Man won't let him!
How To Fight Obesity? Maybe Try Smoking Marijuana
The rapture is still right around the corner, but even if we somehow get past that cataclysmic event, America has other problems—like the fact that half the population will be obese by 2030. But there may be a solution: start smoking marijuana!
Caught Smoking Pot? You Could Lose Your Kids (Unless You're White)
Every year, hundreds of NYC parents busted for pot possession—the vast majority of them recreational smokers—get caught in bitter legal battles with the city to keep their children. Parents with no criminal records routinely lose custody of their children after a small level marijuana bust, even in cases where the police didn't press charges. In an excellent article in today's Times, one Penelope Harris talks about how her son and niece were taken away after police searched her home and found a quantity of marijuana so small they couldn't even charge her with a misdemeanor.
City Council Members Call For End Of Racially Biased "Marijuana Arrest Crusade"
For the past year, community leaders and concerned citizens have demonstrated and spoken out against Mayor Bloomberg's aggressive marijuana arrest policies, which has led to NYC becoming the low-level marijuana arrest capital of the world. Now, a group of City Council and Assembly members assembled outside of City Hall this morning to introduce a new resolution to try to curtail what they call the "racially biased, costly marijuana arrest crusade in NYC."
Mobsters Allegedly Branching Out Into Pot Growing Business
The financial crisis has hit us all in unique and unforeseen ways—even robbers have had to downgrade to using branches for their stickups. And it seems that it's no different for the mafia: three Gambino associates were arrested and charged with running three marijuana grow houses and a cocaine distribution ring on Staten Island.
Soho Fire Reveals 10 Pounds Of Pot Belonging To Music Celeb Photographer
Yesterday morning, a dramatic 3-alarm fire broke out in a seven story building on Thompson Street in Soho. It took 150 firefighters more than two and a half hours to get the blaze under control. And afterwards, one person was taken away in handcuffs...but not for anything having to do with the fire.
Video: Jimmy McMillan Loves Pot, Eminem, And Deep Throat
Hours after we spoke to Jimmy McMillan about his current rent woes, a new clip has been put online showing our favorite former gubernatorial candidate waxing rhapsodic about some of his favorite things. The makers of Damn!, the documentary on McMillan made during his rise-to-internet-fame last fall, released a deleted scene from the film today. In it, McMillan talks about his favorite rapper (Eminem), his favorite movie (Deep Throat—"I'd like for every girl to practice that skill. If you've got a man, treat him right!") and his unabashed appreciation for pot: "Oh hell yeah. I was a pot-smoking motherf--er. You can tell everybody that." Watch the clip below:
State Sen. Savino On Legalizing Medical Marijuana, Praising NJ, And Convincing Cuomo
Earlier this week, State Sen. Diane Savino, who is co-sponsoring a new bill to legalize medical marijuana, made a personal appeal to Governor Cuomo to reconsider the measure. Among other things in the letter, she invoked the memory of her parents, who both died of cancer. We spoke with the Staten Island Democrat, and she told us a little more about why she was motivated to write so personally, how she never thought she'd be praising NJ, and why she thinks Cuomo might be more open to the bill now.
NY Politicians Make Personal Plea For Medical Marijuana
A group of NY State politicians has banded together to sponsor a bill to legalize medical marijuana, through a "registered dispensing facility" with doctor approval. And State Sen. Diane Savino made a personal appeal to Governor Cuomo yesterday in a letter in which she invokes the memory of her parents, who both died of cancer, and calls out NY for falling behind NJ. "As someone who has lost both parents to cancer, I know first-hand what it is like to see a loved one in pain and not be able to do anything about it," she wrote.
Woman Wins $125K From City After NYPD Refused Her Insulin
A diabetic woman who was caught smoking pot in the Lower East Side has won a $125K settlement from the city because police refused to let her administer insulin after her blood sugar rose to dangerous levels in lockup. Cops at the Seventh Precinct confiscated 30 year-old Jaime Rutkowski's glucose meter and her insulin, and only called EMTs after her blood sugar rose higher than three times the normal level. "Any endocrinologist will confirm that this is enough for a Type-1 diabetic to go into shock, slip into a coma, and die," her attorney tells the Post. Rutkowski was treated at Bellevue for the October incident, and discharged from police custody.
Marijuana Grow House Smoked Out In Yonkers Fire
Yonkers firefighters responding to an early morning blaze at a single-family home early Sunday morning found the house unoccupied except for four bedrooms packed with growing marijuana plants, some six feet tall. Nobody was inside the house, which Assistant Fire Chief George Kielb says "looked like a normal home from the outside. But all the windows were covered with plywood and the top floors were just filled with pot." Firefighters worked for three hours before the well-packed blaze was finally cashed, and by that time the two top floors were gutted and the roof was partially destroyed.
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