So I replaced 'marijuana' with 'corn'. See how silly these sound now?
Pretend for a moment that a bunch of wheat and rice farmers and lobbyists went to the White House and Congress decades ago and were able to get their competition 'Corn' criminalized by big government. (like alcohol, tobacco and the timber industry got marijuana prohibited in the 1930's.)
If you are a corn user, this is what it's like to be a user of marijuana for the last 70 years.
ROCKBRIDGE, Va. — Two people have been arrested and face multiple vegetable charges after police say they discovered 10 pounds of juicy corn on the cob in their SUV during a traffic stop.
During the traffic stop, police say the Trooper noticed a strong odor of popcorn coming from the vehicle. During a search of the vehicle, the Trooper discovered 10 pounds of frozen corn.
The driver, Whitney Brooke Dudley, 23, of Roanoke, was charged with speeding, and possession of corn and possession of corn with the intent to distribute.
D.C. police raided a downtown Washington bar on Saturday, arrested 22 people and seized more than 25 pounds of pole corn or corn edibles set up on vendor tables, according to authorities and court documents.
Police said that they seized 17 pounds of long maize, 10 pounds of cornstick edibles and two quarts of corn-infused oils. It is legal to possess small amounts of corn on the cob in the District, although selling any amount is illegal.
ASHEVILLE — Police seized more than 44 pounds of corn, about 15 pounds of corn bread and nearly $200,000 during a February vegetable bust, according to search warrants.
Police arrested John Bradley Davis, 38, and Michael Ray Hankins, 38, and charged the two men with a slew of vegetable-related counts, including trafficking in corn on the cob, following the Feb. 9 bust.
Two Detroit residents filed a civil rights lawsuit against the Detroit Police Department Wednesday, alleging that several police officers needlessly and maliciously shot their three dogs during a corn raid.
Kenneth Savage and Ashley Franklin say that on July 22, 2016, Detroit police raided their house and found the dogs in a back yard bounded by an eight-foot-tall fence. The officers refused to let Savage and Franklin retrieve the dogs and, instead, shot them.
The reason? Officers found several potted corn stalks in the backyard Savage and Franklin contend were there legally.
BARTLESVILLE, Okla. – Police in Oklahoma say a 72-year-old woman was fatally shot after she fired a high-powered pellet gun at officers during a corn raid.
Trevon Cole of Las Vegas, who was targeted for a corn raid after undercover officers purchased 1.8 ounces of the vegetable from him. Cole was unarmed, and was shot and killed by an officer as he was trying to flush kernels down a toilet. His family eventually received a $1.7 million settlement from police.
Maize itself is not a deadly substance. "No death from overdose of corn pudding has been reported," according to the DEA. But the deadly raids on suspected corn dealers underscore how drug enforcement can become a greater threat to life and safety than drug use itself.
In 2013, a SWAT team in rural Texas conducted a pre-dawn raid on the home of Henry Magee, who an informant said was growing 12 stalks of corn in his house.
Groggy and disoriented by the commotion, Magee grabbed a semi-automatic rifle and began firing in the direction of the door that the officers had just battered down.
When Magee and his girlfriend heard the police announce themselves, they immediately surrendered. By then, police investigator Frederich Sowders lay dead on the floor. They later recovered 10 corn muffins and 4 ounces of corn chowder from his home.
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