Deputies Bust Pot 'compassion Clubs'

[bobandtorey]

Deputies arrested 39 suspected drug dealers, seized an ATM, half a ton of marijuana, guns and cash in one week during a broad operation that started out targeting

 

street-level drug dealers and led Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio's detectives to three medical marijuana "compassion clubs," according to the Sheriff's Office.

 

Sheriff's deputies started the operation in early March as part of Sheriff Joe Arpaio's previously announced efforts to drug dealers who sell in skate parks,

 

neighborhoods with high levels of crime and known drug trafficking areas, according to a release.

During the operation, investigators began to target a series of unlicensed medical-marijuana dispensaries known as "compassion clubs." The clubs emerged in

 

Arizona when medical-marijuana card-holders did not have a dispensary where they could legally buy pot, but as state-sanctioned facilities opened the clubs have

 

become obsolete and illegal.

Many of the compassion clubs were located in shopping centers, he said. Deputies seized marijuana that was baked into brownies and cookies, including Vanilla

 

Critters, he said.

"A lot of competition for the supermarket, it looks like," Arpaio joked.

 

Sheriff's deputies seized 1,000 lbs of marijuana with a street value of about $700,000, 30 lbs of high grade marijuana worth roughly $185,000 and $230,000 in

 

cash during the operation, Arpaio said.

 

 

"This is high grade marijuana," Arpaio said. "It's not the stuff from Mexico."

Deputies also seized automatic weapons, eight cars, a house and an ATM that contained marijuana, he said. The 39 people arrested were charged in connection

 

with felony violations and some were booked on charges of money laundering.

 

The operation continued after Arpaio's news conference when deputies raided what they described as a large grow operation at a home in Laveen. Investigators

also expected to search two more homes in connection with the operation, Arpaio said.

Arpaio emphasized that he was against marijuana legalization and said deputies will continue to target people who work around the medical-marijuana law in order

 

to make money selling pot.

"We'll do the best we can to keep arresting people, put them in jail, seize their assets," he said.

 

 

 

Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio said deputies made dozens of arrests targeting the following unlicensed medical marijuana dispensaries in Phoenix:

• The Care Station, 2444 East Thomas Road

• The Kind Collective, 15820 North 35th Avenue

• The Underground, 4215 North 16th Street

 

http://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/phoenix/2014/03/13/phoenix-arpaio-deputies-bust-pot-compassion-clubs/6391771/

[trichcycler]

poor Mexican growers, everybody bum kicks their product. you'd think they'd step up their game after supplying much of hemisphere for so long.

[beourbud]

poor Mexican growers, everybody bum kicks their product. you'd think they'd step up their game after supplying much of hemisphere for so long.

It is their fast dry/ cure and horrific storage and transportation practices.

Profit and Quantity before Quality

[cristinew]

Some Mexican pot  test close to what we have , Also they use the high yielding genetics  from the same score we do,. Its the packaging and hot desert storage that does most of the damage to the Mexican pot

 

Old Joe  knows nothing, 

Edited March 15, 2014 by cristinew

[pic book]

alas, 'The Underground" found itself not quite down deep enuf.

 

and i think the proper term for mex is Mexican Brickweed, aka regs.  regs began life as  potent, vibrant, dank 'wet' weed.  But then, it lies in piles, molding underneath, drying on top under july intensity sun-lazers and hot winds, is crammed and formed into a block; and is tightly compressed in a 10 or 100-ton press.  Amazingly, some of the weed mistreated in this way was grown under Georges Cervantes or THC Academy tutelage--both of whom have schooled Mexican 'pheasant' growers on the finer aspects of weed cultivation. And the seeds come from name seedbanks, by the pounds.  Imagine farm workers gathered in a lunchroom classsroom numbering 800 workers.   and in-the-field instruction in 110 f. , and again, a booming mic relaying the teacher's words.  The geographic conditions (heat) just don't make other drying possible, or it would be done by the tightly organized cartels who hire the instructors to teach best outdoor pot farming practices.

Edited March 15, 2014 by pic book

[bobandtorey]

Mexican Brick-weed bring it home put under a steamer and it's like a sponge grows and grows and the seeds come rolling out

[beourbud]

The truth is we here in the colder climates can thank the freezing temps for offering many dry / cure as well as storage options.....Naturally

Edited March 15, 2014 by beourbud

[garyfisher]

 

 30 lbs of high grade marijuana worth roughly $185,000 and $230,000 in

$7600/lb.  wow.

[Kingdiamond]

Some Mexican pot  test close to what we have , Also they use the high yielding genetics  from the same score we do,. Its the packaging and hot desert storage that does most of the damage to the Mexican pot

 

Old Joe  knows nothing,

True Mexican back in the 70s was some good smoke until they started using presses and making it brick weed full of mold and bugs.