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Got Bud?
Category: Tokers | Posted on Mon, October, 22nd 2012 by THCFinder

 

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Accidentally Rent Your House Out To A Marijuana Grow Lab? Get Ready To Pay Big Time
Category: News | Posted on Mon, October, 22nd 2012 by THCFinder
In early May, Inverness residents John and Pat Wade got a call from their son Darryl with distressing news. Miami-Dade Police had just found a full-scale marijuana grow lab with 49 plants in the detached garage of their three-bedroom Redland ranch.
 
The couple's 59-year-old tenant, Andres Landin, told the cops the ganja was his. It was a shock for the Wades. But with Landin taking responsibility for the crime and police hauling him off to jail, they figured they'd soon get on with their lives.
 
Six months later, they're still dealing with the fallout of their tenant's crime. Their ordeal exposes the frustrating bureaucratic red tape homeowners have to slice through after accidentally renting to one of the tens of thousands of pot-growing criminals who have made Dade a capital of mary jane cultivation.
 
"I feel like I've been victimized by the tenant and the county," Pat Wade says. "They don't do anything to help you."
 
First, the residence -- which had been the Wades' home for four decades until they migrated north three years ago -- was condemned by the county's Permitting, Environment, and Regulatory Affairs Department, even though the grow operation was only in the garage. That's because the permitting department automatically declares any home where police find a grow house as an "unsafe structure" because growers usually rip out walls, install water pipes, and illegally reroute electricity.
 
The county has condemned 605 properties that were used as grow houses since last year, says Miriam Rossi, a department spokeswoman.
 
To reverse that declaration, property owners must pass four inspections for plumbing, electrical, mold and structural engineering. However, Darryl says the county does a terrible job of explaining what the Wades actually need to fix to get their house back in order. For instance, the county made them go through all the permitting departments, including planning and zoning, not just the four inspections on the instruction sheet.
 
Darryl says he was also told he could get a power of attorney from his mother so he could go directly to the permitting agencies without his parents. But after he got the legal document, he was told that it only works if his parents were deceased.
 
"They need to have a step-by-step process," Darryl says. "Right now, you have to figure it out on your own."
 
Dealing with a condemned grow house can also be a costly endeavor. The Wades have already spent $5,000 on permit fees and contractors. Rossi says a typical case related to a grow house incurs about $1,875 in fees.
 
 
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Abominable Snowman Cannabis
Category: Nugs | Posted on Mon, October, 22nd 2012 by THCFinder

 

Abominable Snowman

 

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Tacoma dispensary busted for marijuana beer
Category: Dispensaries | Posted on Mon, October, 22nd 2012 by THCFinder

Talk about idiotic! These are the kinds of things that just hurt the forward progress of our industry. Be smart people, think before you do something stupid.

TACOMA — The state Liquor Control Board says a Tacoma medical marijuana outlet sold “cannabis enriched” beer to a minor.

The board says it organized a covert buy with the help of the Pierce County sheriff’s office, and an underage informant bought three bottles of “cannabis enriched honey beer” from the Hashford Compassion club.
 
The News Tribune reports the club does not have a license to sell alcohol. Officials are pursuing the case as a liquor sales violation.
 
Cases of the beer were seized Friday as evidence.
 
 
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Monday Tokes
Category: Culture | Posted on Mon, October, 22nd 2012 by THCFinder

Medicate up, we know it's monday so lets help the day go by faster!

 

 

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Marijuana Initiative 502 a tough sell in Eastern Washington
Category: Medical Marijuana | Posted on Mon, October, 22nd 2012 by THCFinder
On a rainy Sunday in downtown Spokane, Rick Steves jumped on stage to evangelize for marijuana legalization.
 
The audience, at the Bing Crosby Theater, was not filled with the usual suspects for a pot rally. White-shoe attorneys sat near ministers. A grandmother, wearing a button opposing gay marriage, quietly feared for the grandson she says might be lost to the stuff.
 
Steves, the travel author and TV host with folksy charm, said he once was afraid to advocate for marijuana legalization in public, and so appeared as "Jerry" on a Seattle radio show about pot. Not anymore. "I feel like we are on the side of truth here," Steves told the crowd.
 
Steves' appearance was part of a traveling roadshow through red-state Washington on behalf of Initiative 502, which seeks to legalize marijuana. Conceived with Seattle sensibilities, the campaign must also appeal to values on the other side of the Cascade curtain to win on Nov. 6.
 
The campaign message in the 509 area code weaves conservative and libertarian themes into a liberal idea: Spend less to enforce low-level drug crimes and respect private adult conduct.
 
"Remember, it's not pro-pot; it's anti-pot-prohibition," Steves told the audience.
 
It's a tough sell, in part because as some voters said last week, they assume use would rise, and are uncomfortable with the idea of a state awash in legal pot.
 
A new poll of registered voters by the University of Washington finds I-502 winning statewide, 51 percent to 41 percent, thanks largely to strong support around Puget Sound. But in Eastern Washington, the measure trails with just 41 percent favoring it and 53 percent saying no.
 
Business leaders in the region have been mostly silent, but police have not.
 
In Yakima County, a hub for marijuana trafficking from Mexico as well as outdoor growing, Sheriff Ken Irwin is offended by what he sees as "hollow" arguments for I-502, which he believes would encourage drug use, especially among kids.
 
Mostly, he scoffs at I-502's argument that a legalized market would kneecap gangs controlling the marijuana black market.
 
"To think that by legalizing marijuana, the cartels would be out of business is just naive and absurd," Irwin said. "Criminals are criminals. They would find a way to undercut the price."
 
 
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