Head Shop

Actually, reasonable assumption based on the facts helps here too.

when was this ever about who grows more pot in the United States?

Opening a head shop may take more organization than most smokers can pull off.

Well I certainly missed a lot while I was out. As for supporting the marihuana trade being victimless, what do you think the spate of shootings and Homicides all along Franklin ave is related to? A parcheesi game gone bad? The death toll related to the illegal drug trade is immeasurable. Whether it be due to its criminalization or not its irrelevant. However, Meredith I do find you quite amusing, are you at least a hot looking pothead or one of those hairy armpit, Patty Smith, pachouli oil wearing girls?

King without a crown wrote: However, Meredith I do find you quite amusing, are you at least a hot looking pothead or one of those hairy armpit, Patty Smith, pachouli oil wearing girls?

Definitely not the latter.

Thug who can't shoot straight is a repeat offender
BY Kerry Burke and Alison Gendar
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS

Thursday, September 3rd 2009, 4:00 AM

Roca/NewsThe family of Lesenia Figueroa hold her photo at shrine near the spot where she was hit by a stray bullet. Related NewsPolice identify suspected Seaport gunmanRobbers used Obama health plan in ruse3rd livery cab driver shot dead in 2 weeksCops arrest gunman in cabbie's slayTwo shot dead in Brooklyn park in suspected gang-related hitHe can't shoot straight - and the innocent pay for his rotten aim with their blood.

That's what authorities said Wednesday about Dan Evans, a reputed hired gun who has confessed to wounding two bystanders in June and accidentally killing a young woman three years ago.

Evans, a suspected enforcer for a Manhattan drug pusher, was allegedly aiming at a rival dealer's muscle when a stray bullet cut down Lesenia Figueroa, 27, outside her East Harlem apartment in 2006.

"He came to shoot another person, but he was throwing bullets everywhere. Always it's an innocent person who pays," Figueroa's mother, Anabel Pina, 48, said Wednesday.

"My daughter was innocent."

Evans' aim wasn't any truer this June 15 when he allegedly opened fire at a basketball court on 102nd St. in East Harlem.

The target escaped, but 11-year-old William Smith was shot in the foot, and Pedro Morales, 77, was hit in the back.

"I hope they give him a long sentence," Morales, a Korean War veteran, told the Daily News. "He almost cost me my life."

Evans was arraigned Wednesday on attempted murder and assault charges in the June shooting - and he's expected to be charged later in Figueroa's murder, law enforcement sources said.

"No more collateral damage," a police source said. "He can't accidentally shoot any more women, old men and kids."

Prosecutors described Evans, 24, as a pot dealer who was settling a dispute with a customer at the basketball court.

He confessed to pulling the trigger - and also spilled his guts on tape about the 2006 shooting, saying he was shocked when he picked up the newspaper the next day and read how his wild gunfire had killed Figueroa, law enforcement sources said.

"He wasn't sorry, he was angry that he might get into trouble," a source said.

When Figueroa was killed, Evans was allegedly gunning for ex-con Louis Rodriguez, a Manhattan dealer's right-hand man.

His involvement came to light when Rodriguez was charged last month with killing a bouncer outside the East Village lounge Forbidden City and gave up Evans' name.

Cops grabbed Evans, who admitted his role in both unsolved cases, a prosecutor said.

The suspect - who has six prior arrests, including busts for drugs and assault - was ordered held without bail after arraignment in Manhattan Criminal Court.

His lawyer suggested the damning statements were coerced.

"Based on the way the defendant was treated by the police, I wouldn't have been surprised to hear him confess to the murder of Jimmy Hoffa," defense lawyer Barry Axelbaum said.

Evans' grandmother, who complained the arrest left her stuck caring for Evans' 14-month-old son, said the charges were "trumped up."

"They told him he was going to look at pictures like he was a witness," said Doris Evans, 68. "They tricked him. He's a good boy."

Figueroa's mother said the arrest eased her pain.

"I feel happy that they caught him," she said. "Now there will be justice for what happened to my daughter. I want an explanation for why he did this."

The slain woman's 7-year-old son, Jaime Diaz, who lives with his father in the Bronx, struggles with the reality that his mom is not coming back.

"He knows what happened, but is always asking for her," said Jaime's aunt, Jessica Hernandez, 28.

"He says, 'I need my mother.' When he is alone, you ask him who he is talking to, and he says, 'I'm talking to my mother.'"



Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ny_crime/2009/09/03/2009-09-03_thug_who_cant_shoot_straight_repeat_offender.html#ixzz0Q3RhnRFl

Um, what does thats tory have to do with anything? Yeah sure, he was a suspected enforcer for a Manhattan drug pusher and, yeah, sure he has six prior arrests, including busts for drugs and assault , but it doesn't say WHICH drug!!!!!!

Now this is a pretty sad tale:

EVANS, N.Y. -- A 62-year-old western New York woman faces misdemeanor charges of growing and possessing marijuana after police found a 7-foot-tall pot plant growing on her front porch.

Captain Charles Danzi of the town of Evans police says Barbara Ober was charged after the porch plant and six others growing around the house were seized by officers on Wednesday.

The woman told police she needs it to treat her arthritis and glaucoma.

Her husband, John Ober, told WKBW in Buffalo that she doesn't smoke a lot, but it does help ease her pain.

Thirteen states allow marijuana to be used for medicinal purposes, but not New York. There's currently a bill under consideration in Albany that would allow it.

John Ober says it's time New York legalized medical marijuana and reaped the benefits of taxing it.

King without a crown wrote: Maybe a date sometime? I'll bring the 40 oz. you bring the weed. No shwag Please!

(please. oh, pretty, pretty, please.)

The story said he was a pot dealer, dude.

Pot is different. It is not PHYSICALLY addictive (as is cocaine, heroin and alcohol).

People don't kill/rob to get marijuana, they do to get cocaine and heroin.

MeredithB wrote: People don't kill/rob to get marijuana, they do to get cocaine and heroin.

If it was as expensive at crack with a similar effectiveness (meaning $10 for a 10 minute high) I bet they would. Its the cost associated with the drug, not the drug itself. I know many, many people who have forfeited quality of life to afford pot (or lost jobs, or lived at home with their parents, or failed out of school...)

Violence associated with Marihuana is not necceasrily attributed to the user needing a fix, rather the drug trade itself. No one says Potheads like Meredith are going to Rob people to get their fix.But your local weed pusher might put a cap in the other drug dealers ass for trying to sell Shwag to Meredith. The outcome often leads to innocent people getting shot IE: the delivery guy at the Sushi spot on Franklin and Dean.

Well I'm glad you're not a pothead, but I would like to thank you for doing your part in supporting the illegal drug trade. Maybe one day you will encounter a nice Police Officer that will do his job when he catches you purchasing your Marihuana. I think a nice trip to Brooklyn's Central Booking will be a valuable experience for you.
P.S.I hope you enjoy your bologna sandwiches and milk

I knew a few past friends that were undeniably addicted to cocaine and a couple others that, yes, were hooked on pot. They had to have it all day all the time. It was an addiction. They even admitted to it. and some had withdrawal symptoms.


but that's just a personal side note. please continue, don't mind me ... just passing by....

Mougar wrote: Ice cream topped with bacon filled donut holes would be awesome

Now there's something I can see becoming addicted too!