You’re Evicted! Nope, You’re Busted!
An eviction leads to a drug bust in Chicago. When officers were called to evict a man, they ended up busting him for having a room full of marijuana plants.
The man, Arckey Washington, was charged with unlawful possession of cannabis plants, one count of marijuana possession, and unlawful use of a weapon. All the officers were trying to do was serve an eviction notice. Once the officers were inside, they could smell the marijuana within the apartment. Upon looking around, an unloaded .357 was found lying on the floor along with 2 containers of marijuana that had been prepared for sale.
Upon further investigation, the officers found a mighty extensive marijuana growing operation happening behind a black plastic barricade in a bedroom. Some of the marijuana plants had grown to three feet high. The marijuana that was found is estimated to be worth $60,000.
Washington, 35, previously served prison time for a narcotics conviction.
Tags: cannabis, chicago, Drug, drugs, tea
March 12, 2010 at 11:28 ammalcolmkyle
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Prohibition is a sickening horror and the massive corruption and ocean of human wreckage it has left in its wake is almost endless.
Based on the unalterable proviso that drug use is essentially an unstoppable and ongoing human behavior which has been with us since the dawn of time, any serious reading on the subject of past attempts at any form of drug prohibition would point most normal thinking people in the direction of sensible regulation. By its very nature prohibition cannot fail but create a vast increase in criminal activity, and rather than preventing society from descending into anarchy, it actually fosters an anarchic business model – the international Drug Trade. Any decisions concerning quality, quantity, distribution and availability are then left in the hands of unregulated, anonymous, ruthless drug dealers, who are interested only in the huge profits involved.
Prohibition ideology is based on lies and the ‘War on Drugs’ is a de facto ‘war on people’ (some might even successfully argue that it’s a de facto race war). Prohibition has decimated generations and criminalized millions for a behavior which is entwined in human existence, and for what other purpose than to uphold the defunct and corrupt thinking of a minority of misguided, self-righteous Neo-Puritans and degenerate demagogues who wish nothing but unadulterated destruction on the rest of us!