'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.

[tpaine]

Texaggie79:

"Personally, I have never been stoned, or drunk enough to drop a load on the sidewalk. - tex79

--------------------------------- Too bad you feel you have to unload on us. - Why is that?

73 posted by tpaine

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To: RedBloodedAmerican

I guess since he waited a few weeks before he started in on me he figures that I won't think he is still stalking me. - Tex79

Good grief, Tex! It has been weeks since you made such an inane & goofy remark !

You must be growing up, son! Good work. -- But please, -- don't lose ALL your boyish buffoonery. I'd have to find a new stalking horsey.

[wienerdog.com]

They bitch and moan about gubmint waste (and I do too), but they encourage more of the same by locking up people who have harmed no one!

That's how it starts. If they keep talking long enough without getting bitch-slapped like Dane just did, they inevitably start advocating having the gubmint shoot all the dopers.

[Zon]

LOL!!!

To: Dane

Well we could always send those people living in that state to your backyard and the state of incarceration will disappear.

We could take the drug offenders and teach them to be alcoholics instead.

That way, they wouldn't be criminals.

[exodus]

To: exodus
"I'll try to find some documentation on it later,
but there was one very fraudulent study
done that showed marijuana..."
# 174 by Dakmar
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That would be appreciated, Dakmar.
Thanks.

[exodus]

To: exodus
"...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.
# 172 by Texaggie79
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When you were sober,
was your thinking off to such a degree
that you felt that you were a danger
to those around you?

[wienerdog.com]

Bump for your input!

[exodus]

To: exodus
"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.
# 175 by FITZ
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Agreed, FITZ.

From everything I've read,
marijuana is completely safe.

You can overdose on aspirin.
You can't overdose on Marijuana.

[exodus]

You left out sinkspur!!

[Zon]

getting bitch-slapped like Dane just did

Did he whine and snivel afterwards?

[exodus]

Your thoughts on this issue, Sir?

[BluesDuke]

I'm so glad they got this destroyer of society off the streets..............

Yep. Between this woman and the elderly lady with the walker who got stopped and frisked (I think they frisked her) at the airport the other day, I sure feel safe as a baby in the (mandatory seat belted?) carriage now...

Tell me, from her sales, how many people have overdosed? How many people have gone on bad trips and cut the eyes out of their childs heads? It is just POT! The worst thing she has attributed to is obesity.

Haven't you heard? They've been trying to figure out ways to slap obesity taxes on us recently. (Wonder what they're going to call officially obese - and will they go by weight alone, or actually consider allowances for musculature as opposed to blubber?) At the rate we're going, contributing to someone's obesity is going to be a punishable offence. (Quick! Better ditch the Maui Waui. No! Don't forget the Hershey bars, either!)

[Texasforever]

Your thoughts on this issue, Sir?

I have no strong feelings either way about pot. If ya want to get stupid then do it. Just don’t blow that medical pot nonsense at me.

[exodus]

You got it.
No smoke in Texasforever's face.

[exodus]

As an aside,
my father suffered from intense chronic pain for decades.
A doctor he was seeing finally told him to try marijuana,
since nothing else seemed to work.

It helped.
The pain didn't go away,
but it was less severe.

[wienerdog.com]

If you read through this whole thread, you'll see that Brother Dane had a pretty rough day today. He ended up sniveling that he had won the argument, but the thread leading up to it was fun.

[Texaggie79]

When you were sober, was your thinking off to such a degree that you felt that you were a danger to those around you?

No. That's why I said I could still function. It was just a certain feeling in my mind. The only way I would be a danger is if their lives depanded on my ability to solve for Y.

[exodus]

When you were sober,
was your thinking off to such a degree
that you felt that you were a danger
to those around you?
# 206 by exodus
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To: exodus
"No.
That's why I said I could still function.
It was just a certain feeling in my mind.
The only way I would be a danger
is if their lives depanded
on my ability to solve for Y."
# 218 by Texaggie79
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You might surprise yourself, then.

No less an authority than Carl Sagan
said that he performed his best, most creative work
while smoking marijuana.

[jackliberty]

Haven't you seen "Reefer Madness?

I haven't seen it and can't find it. Does Blockbuster rent it out? Family Video doesn't.

I saw a critique of it a couple years ago that stated it was the best propaganda film ever produced to get people to smoke pot. From what I read, they showed only good looking, young, athletic whites acting goofy and enjoying themselves. I don't remember if sex was portrayed; But since the time of its production was more puritanical, they probably just intimated something about girls "ruining" themselves.

In the mid 90's, "USA Today" published a list every Wednesday detailing all the houses, cars, boats and cash seized under "administrative forfeiture" by the federal government. (It was sort of a legal notice giving "interested parties" the right to appeal) The average for the 3 weeks I checked was $16 million. $842 million may not sound like much federal budget-wise but remember Everett Dirksen's saying "A billion dollars here, a billion dollars there and pretty soon you're talking about real money." Of course state and local law enforcement had their own scams going, too.

Couple the government's effort to get people to smoke pot and the "administrative forfeiture laws" (where you don't need a conviction or even trial or even charges being made) and you have a great conspiracy theory; except for the time span between them.