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Subscribe to RSSPolice in Seattle are investigating how a large package of marijuana wound up being delivered to the stock room of a local Kmart store.
Police said the package -- 10 pounds of marijuana wrapped in garbage bags and encircled by packing peanuts and pages from a Korean newspaper soaked with cleaning fluid -- arrived at the store shortly after noon Monday.
Delivery information on the package shows it was originally to be shipped by UPS from Los Angeles to Philadelphia, police said, but it never made it to the City of Brotherly Love.
Instead, the return address was to a longstanding Kmart in the north end of Seattle.
Store employees called police, and the marijuana was placed into evidence.
“Today’s Blue Light Special: 10 Pounds of Weed,” quipped the Seattle PD’s blog headline announcing the marijuana’s seizure in an obvious joke on the chain's venerable in-store sales gimmick. A call to the Seattle Kmart's manager was not answered.
Though owning pot is legal in Washington state, that big of a stash wouldn’t appear to pass the legal sniff test.
Voter-approved Initiative 502 makes it legal for anyone 21 or over to possess up to only an ounce of marijuana, 16 ounces of “solid marijuana-infused product” (pot brownies, cookies and such) or 72 ounces of “marijuana-infused liquid.”
Washington’s Liquor Control Board is working on rules to implement the state’s new recreational marijuana law and faces a Dec. 1 deadline.
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I used to deal pot about 10 lbs a week never smoked it but made a but load of extra money. today being an older and in my opion wiser person. if you want to smoke that is your business untill just like drinking you cause problems then, want to dance pay the fidler, just that you dont hurt some one or someones property
Huh? @!$%#! I'd hate to read comments from you had you been a pot smoker. I'm struggling with your comments as it is.
Poor Doug! Do you realize that you make no sense? Do you realize that you cannot spell? Don't tell us you didn't smoke pot! Older and wiser? What do you do for a living now? Walk dogs?
I'm sorry, but you seem to have already ruined your life and probably many other people's lives.
as a matter of fact i drive truck and have been doing that for better then 30 years sorry about my misspelling but at least you were able to read what i had to say.
if you want to smoke then do it if you want to drink then do it. get busted pay for what you do. your choice
It's WASHINGTON! Some dumbass will try and claim it.
gimme
Attention K-mart shoppers there is a blue light special in aisle...um...um...sh!t...(what fcukin aisle was it?)Oh yeah aisle 13 where you will receive 25% off of...of...sh!t...dude I'm so fcukin hungry.
Aisle 420.
Meanwhile in New York... Oh you wanna be a wise guy huh?! I ordered 10 pound box of POT, not a 10 box of POTS! you friggin canoli!!!
:-)
This terrorist incident cannot be tolerated!
It was the Walmartians wut done it. Beam me up Scotty.
Well Seattle you asked for the stupid train regarding drugs and so the slope continues to slip..... The Democrats are building their pathetic and weak voter base from the folks that buy into the "its okay' crowd..... I wish your state well in the next decade or so..... Cant wait to hear about the first law suit.......
get a life
Looks like K-Mart has stumbled upon a solution to their tumbling sales! How innovative:)
Dumbass employees - why did they even tell the manager? They could have hooked the whole staff up with free stash. Now all of that good pot is going to be wasted.
Reading all of these posts gives me the munchies.
I wish Iowa would get off their (political) asses and simply legalize like Washington. Now, there's word there's a bill being introduced that would make it legal ONLY IF you were terminally ill. WTF? What about people suffering chronic pain? What about people who are ADULTS and totally capable of making their OWN DECISIONS - not having to put up with a fk'd up government who has taken over the racketeering responsibility of deciding for us and if we get caught - it's the PRISONS FOR PROFIT! And a destroyed life by the THUGS in our government. I mean Gawdam...our government is WORSE than the mafia ever was during prohibition!
Back to Iowa...we know where the loyalties lie. O'le Terry Braindead vows to veto ANYTHING pot related but he was immediately approving of butt-sex marriage. Wouldn't even put it to the people for a vote.
Our once great state has sold out.
What 'tard turned the pot in to the cops?
Obviously someone smarter than you!
You know it's odd that, that package arived at k-mart, wrapped in korean news paper whos to say korea wasn;t behind this. Who can say...? Instead of a package of weed it wont be something worse. Terorists are smart. They plan ahead. If they can import weed thay can import bombs.!
I was thinking that type of thing too! Why soaked in cleaning fluids? What's up with that? Definitely important to find out what the deal was here. All kinds of jokes and people all for pot, but this might be more serious than people are realizing. I'm glad the employees called the police. Used their common sense on that decision! Needs to be followed up!
Wrapped in Korian newspapers Huh..! Koria is behind this. They can,t hit us with nukes through the air. The mail system is weak. Who's to say instead of weed next time it won't be a big bomb. Terrorist aren't stupid,they plan ahead. If they can get weed in k-mart in the heart land. Who says the next k-mart wont be... Leveled.
They can't even sell weed grown in the USA. They have to import some Korean Ganja! :)
This was funny, or rather , fun to read till everyone got into politics and laws concerning this crap, we have enough problems with alcoholics, now the government is actually thinking about legalizing pot, soon they won't make enough tax money on that and they'll have to legalize cocaine , where in the hell does it stop, oh yeah, when all of america are brain dead zombies and no one can work anymore cause they're all home getting high! Now i know why this world is about to end.
If you paid any attention at all, you'd know that the insanely unresearched drugs being prescribed to children when no long-term affect research has been done if far more dangerous than any pot will ever be.
Why don't you look at what is legally being done before you look at some weed.
Alcohol is far worse than weed also.
Please do some research and educate yourself.
@Luvmypugs, isn't it time you take your prescription drugs now? Afterwards I'm sure you will take a very lovely ride to the pet store.
The ignorance , it just does not amaze me anymore.
probabably getting ready for there blue light specials or thier pharmacy for medical pot use, and you have to give them a hard time for getting on the ball already. and yes they could be sold for food additive for brownies or cupcakes, add some to your spagatti sauce. at least there getting prepared right bama,
the kicker is its not a drug till the suits said it was, pretty soon wewon't be able to eat any food they might use to add to drugs ,but they feed the kids chemical drinks at schools with additives they had an article on msn the other day about how they have sttrawberries on the boxes but use chemical inhancers for the taste not a bit of the fruit in it, and we wonder why where getting sicker in this country and cancer is wide spread. our own country is toxifying us with crap, good old FDA
Points to ponder:
"Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced." Albert Einstein
"The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced." Frank Zappa
"If a law is injust, a man is not only right to disobey it, he is obligated to do so." Thomas Jefferson
"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." Albert Einstein
I had that on layaway. Can I get my deposit back?
well, since weed is banned already, that leaves kmart & wally world on the choppin block. ban'm danno.
we had a strange box delivered to our office in Phoenix after opening it for over 15 min to get to the bottom of all the duct tape and coffee liquid poured ll over it and plastic it was a box of pot, needless to say someone is pissed now
Best office party ever.
im thinking maybe the dealer forget where to send the bail