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Chronicle outdoors writer arrested in pot case
San Francisco Chronicle ^ | 4/2/10 | Kevin Fagin

Posted on 04/02/2010 12:36:53 PM PDT by SmithL

WEED, SISKIYOU COUNTY -- Chronicle outdoors writer Tom Stienstra and his wife were arrested at their Northern California home on suspicion of possession of marijuana for sale, and later released with no charges filed pending an investigation, officials said.

Siskiyou County sheriff's spokeswoman Susan Gravenkamp said deputies found "a sophisticated marijuana cultivation operation in the barn" at Stienstra's home in Weed, a small town 30 miles south of Yreka, when they searched it March 25.

(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; US: California
KEYWORDS: busted; marijuana; sfchronicle
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Weed?

What did they expect?

1 posted on 04/02/2010 12:36:53 PM PDT by SmithL
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To: abb

For your amusement.


2 posted on 04/02/2010 12:37:12 PM PDT by SmithL
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To: SmithL

They grow pot in Northern California?


3 posted on 04/02/2010 12:37:47 PM PDT by SIDENET ("If that's your best, your best won't do." -Dee Snider)
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To: SIDENET

Forgot my sarcasm tag.


4 posted on 04/02/2010 12:38:22 PM PDT by SIDENET ("If that's your best, your best won't do." -Dee Snider)
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To: SmithL

Pair grows pot in Weed?.....I thought you grew Weed in Pots?............


5 posted on 04/02/2010 12:39:12 PM PDT by Red Badger (Education makes people easy to lead, difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.)
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To: SIDENET

They grow Pot in Weed.............


6 posted on 04/02/2010 12:39:37 PM PDT by Red Badger (Education makes people easy to lead, difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.)
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To: SmithL

highly sophisticated?

and so busticated now..


7 posted on 04/02/2010 12:40:29 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed .. Monthly Donor Onboard .. Chuck DeVore - CA Senator. Believe.)
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To: SmithL

“Yreka”

Is that a bastardization of Greek?


8 posted on 04/02/2010 12:42:22 PM PDT by Rebelbase
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To: SmithL

UMMMHHH the guy lives in “Weed”? What do you expect with a name like that?


9 posted on 04/02/2010 12:42:33 PM PDT by chris_bdba
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To: SmithL
Photobucket
10 posted on 04/02/2010 12:47:02 PM PDT by Doomonyou (Let them eat Lead.)
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To: SmithL

11 posted on 04/02/2010 12:48:04 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed .. Monthly Donor Onboard .. Chuck DeVore - CA Senator. Believe.)
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To: SmithL

12 posted on 04/02/2010 12:48:49 PM PDT by abb ("What ISN'T in the news is often more important than what IS." Ed Biersmith, 1942 -)
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Tom Stienstra’s Top Catches
Seven-gill shark, (wire line) 178 pounds
Sailfish, (14-pound test line), 160 pounds
Sturgeon, (20-pound line) 148 pounds
Tarpon, (14-pound line) 125 pounds
Halibut, (30-pound line) 98 pounds
Dorado, (20-pound line) 60 pounds
Mackinaw trout, (8-pound line) 42 pounds
King salmon, (20-pound line) 32 pounds
Striped bass, (14-pound line) 26 pounds
Yellowtail, (20-pound line) 37 pounds
Steelhead, (6-pound line) 16 pounds
Atlantic bonito, (14-pound line) 15 pounds*
Silver salmon, (fly rod, 8-pound tippet) 12 pounds
Rainbow trout, (fly rod, 6-pound tippet) 11 pounds
Largemouth bass, (8-pound line) 8 pounds
Brown trout, (4-pound line) 6 pounds
Arctic grayling, (4-pound line) 3.5 pounds
Cutthroat trout, (6-pound line), 3.5 pounds

*Non-registered world record


13 posted on 04/02/2010 12:49:05 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed .. Monthly Donor Onboard .. Chuck DeVore - CA Senator. Believe.)
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To: NormsRevenge

Grizzly Adams meets Fast Times at Ridgemont High...


14 posted on 04/02/2010 12:50:20 PM PDT by ExpatGator (I hate Illinois Nazis!)
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To: SmithL

funny in a state where your child can be prescribed pot for failure to get up on time to go to school.

Are you telling me they couldn’t find a quack?


15 posted on 04/02/2010 12:50:53 PM PDT by GeronL (There is only a "Happily ever after" for you if you're the one writing your own script)
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To: SmithL

I assumed 95% of all the Chron “journalist” were pot heads.


16 posted on 04/02/2010 12:51:02 PM PDT by Drango (A liberal's compassion is limited only by the size of someone else's wallet.)
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To: NormsRevenge

From his photo, one would never guess that he likes to partake now and then.


17 posted on 04/02/2010 12:53:34 PM PDT by 1rudeboy
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To: GeronL

Apparently, that “sophisticated marijuana cultivation operation in the barn” was a just a little more than what the Doctor ordered.


18 posted on 04/02/2010 1:03:36 PM PDT by SmithL
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To: SmithL

Ever smoke a pine tree?

Many parts are smokable.

19 posted on 04/02/2010 1:17:24 PM PDT by GSWarrior
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To: SmithL

slightly. lol.


20 posted on 04/02/2010 1:18:10 PM PDT by GeronL (There is only a "Happily ever after" for you if you're the one writing your own script)
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