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Mom paid babysitters with marijuana
AZCentral ^ | March 22, 2002 08:15:00

Posted on 03/22/2002 1:42:24 PM PST by Texaggie79

Edited on 05/07/2004 5:20:51 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

MOORHEAD, Minn. - She paid her babysitters with green all right. But a jury in Minnesota says the payment was in pot - not cash.

Lois Graff has been convicted on all four counts in the pot-for-sitting case.

Prosecutors charged Graff gave two teenage girls marijuana for taking care of her kids and allowed the sitters to smoke the illegal weed in front of the children.


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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: pot

1 posted on 03/22/2002 1:42:25 PM PST by Texaggie79
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To: Realpatriot71
Babysitters R US
2 posted on 03/22/2002 1:43:00 PM PST by Texaggie79
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To: Texaggie79
Truly, a different form of "pottie" training.
3 posted on 03/22/2002 1:49:41 PM PST by Enterprise
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To: Texaggie79
allowed the sitters to smoke the illegal weed in front of the children.

Look, I have plenty of problems legalizing pot (and keeping it illegal, for that matter), but this sentence really struck me as funny.

4 posted on 03/22/2002 1:55:32 PM PST by KayEyeDoubleDee
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To: Texaggie79
Does she still need babysitting help?
5 posted on 03/22/2002 1:58:29 PM PST by Warren
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To: Warren
You know I live here in Minneapolis, and let me just say, that there are Morons up here like you would not believe. Something like this does not surprise me. What actually does surprise me is that this idiot actually got nailed.
6 posted on 03/22/2002 3:13:05 PM PST by MadRobotArtist
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To: Texaggie79
Sounds like a real Dope Head
7 posted on 03/22/2002 4:32:29 PM PST by johnfl61
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To: Texaggie79
Didn't you already post this, or did it get yanked?
8 posted on 03/22/2002 4:34:15 PM PST by Pistias
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To: Pistias
If it was, I didn't post it.
9 posted on 03/22/2002 4:38:41 PM PST by Texaggie79
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To: Texaggie79
Whoops, my mistake...thought I saw you there, but I seem to be mistaken.
10 posted on 03/22/2002 4:41:09 PM PST by Pistias
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