65 Pounds of Pot, Gift Wrapped With Bows, Seized

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A Portland, Oregon, woman must have had someone special in mind when she gift-wrapped two giant bundles of marijuana and decided to drive across the country with them.

The Daily Nonpareil newspaper of Council Bluffs said Robin Cheryl Klein, 51, was pulled over in a 2010 Dodge Charger around 2 p.m. on Monday during a routine traffic stop.

The Pottawattamie County Sheriff's Office told the paper that, after an initial interaction with Klein, a drug dog led deputies to the trunk of the car, where they eventually found the two large cardboard boxes full of marijuana, gift wrapped and covered with bows.

Deputies also found $5,598 in cash in the car.

Klein was charged with possession of marijuana with intent to deliver, and other related crimes.

She was released on bond on Monday, the Associated Press reports.

No attorney for Klein was listed in online court records and a telephone listing for Klein in Portland has been disconnected, the AP reports.

[TJphoto]

The Government doesn't want to legalize it as they have built an entire industry around it from interdiction to prosecution and incarceration. The Fools can't figure out they would make more money by legalizing and taxing it. Not to mention that politicians need to say "I'm tough on crime, VOTE FOR ME." Government mentality is always geared to the lowest common denominator.

[rwsmith29456]

You can buy pot on Florist shops as greenery to go with the flowers.

[enough-already]

Yeah, you wish. If you could, florists would be multi-millionaires.

[ludvig1-2009]

Marijuana needs to be legalized to stop the illegal searches being predicated by Bums with badges, Barney Fife Dick Tracy wannabes and Prejudiced Incompetent goons with an acronym to go with it. I know I was stopped twice in Missouri by the Highway Patrol for no reason other than I had Cal. license plates and my car searched and I was a Civil Servant Nuclear Engineer at the time for the Navy. When I heard the cop in Ark. got offed for stopping an out of state car, I didn't shed a tear. Instead I had a beer.

[not_fooled_by_Righties]

"It just doesn't make sense, why marijuana is the least harmful of all the drugs out there, that are killing people, yet pot is illegal."

The alcohol industry has/had better lobbyists back in the day. Also, don't you know reefer turns you into a murderer (or so it would seem if you watched "Reefer Madness"). And blacks use it. etc.

But beyond all of that, I agree it doesn't make sense.

Although there are a lot of people that make a lot of money putting people who mess with pot in jail. They are in fear of their jobs. Putting people in jail for little good reason.

[jackpenn]

I think it's time to legalize marijuana, now that they're making synthetic pot, because there is no laws against it, and young people are having lasting ill effects from it. Marijuana is all natural, grows wild in warm climates, and has not been proven to have any lasting harmful side effects. If it can be used medically, how bad can it be? People who can't get pot, will go to something more harmful, and if they regulate the sale of marijuana, it will bring in allot of revenue. Marijuana is allot less addicting then cigarettes, in fact pot is not addicting at all, and there has been no deaths attributed to smoking pot. Booze is one of the most addicting, and harmful intoxicants legal to drink as much as you want, and then there is the number of deaths caused from alcohol. It just doesn't make sense, why marijuana is the least harmful of all the drugs out there, that are killing people, yet pot is illegal.