tokeofthetown.com — Three Pacific Grove, California residents were in jail on drug charges Thursday after the Santa Cruz Anti-Crime Team raided an Airport Boulevard warehouse, which was adjacent to a state Department of Justice crime lab in Watsonville, according to sheriff's deputies.
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StonnaFeb 6, 2012
Three people just lost their job..
And on a different note, I know the feds don't want the public smoking cannabis but why don't Americans encourge cannabis use to make toilet paper? Napkins and paper towels all the stuff we waste on a daily basis should be made out of cannabis.
iprintallFeb 6, 2012
Cannabis is not hemp. Like dandelions are not roses. However, I get your point.
tokeofthetownFeb 6, 2012
Actually, all hemp is cannabis (as in belonging to the species cannabis sativa), but all cannabis is not hemp.
Only the high-fiber, low-THC strains of cannabis are considered hemp.
iprintallFeb 6, 2012
OK, I get that. I do know what hemp is. BTW. Just got it a bit out of order. Thanks for the info.
doodlemasterFeb 7, 2012
Lol. You just got told off by an entire website.
iprintallFeb 7, 2012
And you sound like a 12 year old.
iboxFeb 6, 2012
There is an old ...old ... report somewhere on the net about why that all came about. had to do with competition with oil companies and some well greased palms.
laurahoustonFeb 7, 2012
lol, the headline if the police didn't wait months...
." police seize 200 seeds worth 20 cents in million dollar raid "
diggumsmack83Feb 6, 2012
best place to hide, right under their noses.
Too bad they got busted, in California no less. Gotta love wasteful spending by the government.
iprintallFeb 6, 2012
A two month investigation, wow. That's all? They couldn't have milked the taxpayer for say, a full year? Think of the overtime, the training for the newbs and hell, maybe even a few more hires. Why not? No one else is hiring might as well go into something you know isn't going away and if it even appears as though it will. . . oh, there it is EPIDEMIC! More fed money! Cha-ching!
rusty0101Feb 7, 2012
Wondering if the suspects suddenly realized that they were next door to the cops, and were getting ready to move their operations. Or perhaps it was just about time to harvest the first crop and the police were waiting on that to put the most financial hurt on the suspects. After all, they've paid up the rent, paid for the electricity, all that's left is harvesting, drying, and selling the crop.
My guess would be that they needed 2 months to go through the medical Marijuana growing applications to see if the suspects had their paperwork in order and found they hadn't filed.
In any case the police decided that this was a good time to do the arrest. Perhaps they've got some bigger crime to investigate.
iprintallFeb 7, 2012
Or everyone on that "task force" took turns using this as the excuse to get their extra 20 hours of overtime every week for two months.
But, you do bring up an interesting point. For two months the cops knew, so what the hell were they doing? Exactly how much proof does one need in a case like this?
And if you couldn't tell, I was being facetious in my earlier post.
beerhoundFeb 7, 2012
If these guys were independent growers, who knows why they waited. If they were just the hired help to run someone else's operation, I'd guess the cops were following them to see who they led to.
iprintallFeb 7, 2012
The story didn't say one way or another. My point of contention is that a bust that could at most be spread out over a week lasted two months. Seems a bit absurd to me. It's bad enough we pay the police to actually do this all the time, but at least try to save a buck or two.
Closed AccountFeb 7, 2012
damn.. i wanna ask the cops how the flock did ya miss that smell?
funny.
News_AddictFeb 7, 2012
This is either brilliant or moronic.
mrilyons007Feb 7, 2012
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