Washington Coed Booked for Bong Smashing
November 10th, 2008 by Perry
Over the weekend, a Bellingham, WA resident who tried to help a friend that was getting arrested, intervened and got involved in all the wrong ways. Her friend was pulled over and arrested with more than 30 bags of weed packaged for sale, a scale and a couple bongs. Sensing imminent danger, like Wonder Woman, she sprung into action.
While officers were preparing to cite the driver with possession of marijuana with intent to deliver, the woman grabbed the bongs and started running.
Later after being detained, she told the officer she was trying to help her friend avoid a paraphernalia charge. It sounds to me like the classic “bong grab-n-dash” but the next time you smash someone’s bongs to try and help them, please don’t.
The friend, as it turns out, wasn’t getting charged with paraphernalia possesion. Even if he was, it wouldn’t have mattered that she smashed the bong to pieces. Additionally, if you’re over 18, which it turns out her friend was not, you can submit a request to get evidence back after a trial. Yet, since he was a minor, she just saved the officer some time by breaking the paraphernalia and got herself booked too.
Washington Lawmakers Say Leave Their Medicine Alone
October 6th, 2008 by Perry
Washington lawmakers are showing the kind of initiative rarely seen in state capitols, the kind we like to see here at tFS. Just would like to quickly say, my hat’s off to you, Washingtonians.
To clear up any confusion, and ostensibly to reduce prosecutions, state legislators have clarified what constitutes a “60-day supply,” the legal amount you can have in the state.
So what’s the limit?
24 ounces and 15 plants, mature or immature, is the rule.
One legal commentator said the limit was made so high because lawmakers wanted to make sure it was known prosecution of such cases were not a priority, adding:
We’re not going to prosecute you if you have 15 plants or 30. If somebody is legitimately ill, we’re not going to prosecute that case, period.
Relief to the ill, what a marvelous concept.
