'Granny' Busted For Pot Sales

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[Texaggie79]

A 72-year-old woman is one of three members of a Green Cove Springs family now in jail, accused of selling marijuana.

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The Clay County Sheriff's Office arrested Elnora "Granny" Layfield, along with Michael and Linda Layfield, last Friday in their Stauffer Street home. Officer seized approximately 30 bags of marijuana valued at $1,200 from the house.

Police said that undercover officers bought marijuana at the home on four separate occasions prior to issuing a search warrant. When officers entered the home, the elder Layfield was found sitting in a living room with several bags of marijuana.

"It's unusual to find someone her age selling pot, but she's not the first and probably won't be the last," said Lt. Larry Thompson, who heads up the Clay County Drug Task Force, which co-ordinates the efforts of the sheriff's office, the Green Cove Springs and Orange Park police departments.

All three suspects were charged with possession, sale and delivery of marijuana over 20 grams, a felony with penalties of up to five years in jail upon conviction.

Elnora Layfield has two prior drug-related charges.

"Maybe a little jail time will send a stronger message to her -- because probation isn't working," Thompson said.

[scottiewottie]

Strike that last sentence. No Codie, not high! I attribute it to the "Dane paradigm".

To err is human, to really mess things up you have the federal government. When you need to make sense of it, there is Dane.

[Codie]

Still think I'd rather have a mechanic who just had a b*** ***, as opposed to one who had just smoked a "fat" one, working on my plane. Your life,your call.

[Joe Hadenuf]

All three suspects were charged with possession, sale and delivery of marijuana over 20 grams, a felony with penalties of up to five years in jail upon conviction.

The GD people that attempt to enforce this BS should be given 10 years.

[Wolfie]

Its way to early to tell, but maybe "Granny" will make next year's roundup:

2001: A Year In The Life Of Marijuana Prohibition

[Dakmar]

Dane, was it you that made the assertion a few weeks ago that there was only a small group of anti WOD FReepers, anywhere from four to ten comes to mind, who were the only ones against the WOD versus the vast majority of FReepers? Do you still think so, if that was, in fact, you that made that claim?

[scottiewottie]

Nice post! More fun tommorrow. evening ya'll!(Dane, that means I am gone now, you can defend busting grannies to teach them a lesson and win because I am not here.)

[scottiewottie]

Nice post! More fun tommorrow. evening ya'll!(Dane, that means I am gone now, you can defend busting grannies to teach them a lesson and win because I am not here.)

[riley1992]

If that includes my mother-in-law, I will start calling around for airfare now.

[exodus]

To: exodus
Dangerous to others you mean?
Because it is quite harmful to the user's lungs if smoked often.
But as for a threat to society, you are right, quite harmless.
# 157 by Texaggie79
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Not according to my reading.
I've never heard of anyone hospitalized
for health problems caused by marijuana.

Have you?

[exodus]

To: exodus
I think marijuana is terribly harmful.
But laws against private possession and private use are worse.
To err is human, you really mess things up there is our federal government.
# 159 by scottiewottie
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All the evidence I've seen shows marijuana to be benign.
It's not addictive, and causes no health problems for the user.

[Tailback]

The argument that since "pot is more potent these days so it's even more bad" doesn't really fly. More potent pot means that you smoke less to get high. It's physiologically impossible to OD on pot because once you reach a certain level, you fall asleep. Compare this to alcohol. When I was stationed in Germany, a young soldier died from alcohol poisoning from drinking BEER! It was German beer which has about twice as much (or more) alcohol as everyday American beer. While I am still against legalizing cocaine and heroin (maybe de-criminalizing small amounts) I just can't support pot being illegal.

[Texaggie79]

The amount of tar in smoking straight pot is far worse than tobacco. The problem is, I doubt you will find many people that smoke pot who do not smoke tobacco.

Also the THC remains in your fat cells and afflicts your brain function (Although it has not been determined exactly how) for several weeks even after you stop smoking it. I know when I smoked often, even when I was sober I would feel to be in somewhat of a dreamstate. I could function well, such as with driving and such, but my thinking was somewhat off.

[Codie]

It is just POT! The worst thing she has attributed to is obesity. Jeez son,make up your mind.Is a good thing or a bad thing?You don't own a gun do you?

[Dakmar]

I'll try to find some documentation on it later, but there was one very fraudulent study done that showed marijuana causing death of brain cells. They tested the effects of jest ten (or 80, or 8 million) marijuana cigarettes a day on laboratory mice. The reason I say it doesn't matter if it is 10 or 80,000,000 is because 10 joints to a mouse would be like a giant grocery bag full to a human. No one would ever consume that much. The mice had brain damage, too, but it was from carbon monoxide poisoning, same as they would get of forced to inhale the smoke from burning cauliflower or even tobacco. With rules of science like this, I could prove Iceberg Lettuce is deadly - if 300 lbs of it were instantaneously air-cannoned into the victim, er, ah, subject in question. I guess I've rambled on long enough,

Dakmar

[FITZ]

They should just put pot in the same category as alcohol or tobacco. It may or may not be completely safe but lots of things aren't. Over the counter medications aren't safe but they let people buy them.

[Dakmar]

There is actually a receptor in the brain that THC molucles attach themselves to. I'm not real up on my brain biochemistry lately, but if you are interested a simple google search for "thc receptor" will at least give you a good starting point to check it out.

[Codie]

How do you feel about the legalization of pot?

[Texaggie79]

Right, but it is still undetermined what exactly it does to the brain function.

[Nate505]

The amount of tar in smoking straight pot is far worse than tobacco.

That claim isn't a known fact, and I've heard many different numbers for it. Even if it is, the difference tends to be that the amount of tobacco smoked (average smokers smokes like a pack a day, or 15.x grams) is far less than the average pot smoker (I'd consider over 3.5 grams a day very heavy use, while the average is probably 1 gram).

The problem is, I doubt you will find many people that smoke pot who do not smoke tobacco.

My friends might be an anomaly, but more of my pot smoking friends don't smoke tobacco than do. Like me, for instance.

Also the THC remains in your fat cells and afflicts your brain function (Although it has not been determined exactly how) for several weeks even after you stop smoking it. I know when I smoked often, even when I was sober I would feel to be in somewhat of a dreamstate. I could function well, such as with driving and such, but my thinking was somewhat off.

The claim that it has after effects for several weeks is very debatable, and is only supported by personal ancedotes, which do not apply to everyone.