MASON CITY – Police prevented a North Iowa man from taking home his marijuana Friday morning.
According to Cerro Gordo County Sheriff Kevin Pals, Friday morning at about 8:51 AM, a member of the North Central Iowa Narcotics Task Force and the Cerro Gordo County Sheriff’s Office responded to a report of a suspicious package at a local parcel shipping company.
After an investigation, Christopher Michael West, age 45, of Ventura, was taken into custody near the 2300 block of South Jefferson Avenue and charged with Possession of Marijuana with Intent to Deliver, Failure to Affix a Drug Tax Stamp and Possession of Drug Paraphernalia.
West was in possession of a large amount of marijuana that was shipped from another state that has legalized marijuana for medicinal or recreational purposes.
West transported to the Cerro Gordo County Jail booked and bonded out.
On January 1, 2014, marijuana sales for recreational use became legal in the state of Colorado.
SUBJECT IS INNOCENT UNTIL PROVEN GUILTY
How come the guy he was with wasn’t arrested?
They did more than ruin his day. They ruined his life.
We should organize bus charters to Colorado and call them buzz trips. Come on out and enjoy the fun! Screw law enforcement and rednecks! They can’t handle the truth.
Every parcel and every license plate is checked coming out of Colorado. The police are gonna love these easy pickings.
This is going to be the first of many stories like this. Let’s think positive for a moment. Maybe this guy was getting it for medical reasons, he just went about getting it illegally. The bigger problem here is some states legalizing marijuana while other states have not. Without having it having a black and white guideline to follow nationwide stories like this will keep happening.
This is a stupid man. He is one who gives the responsible cannabis users a bad name.
remember the good old days of bring back a case or 2 or 6 of Coors from CO.?
Would a change in the law be ex post facto? Probably not.
Birds of a feather…..
It makes me wonder what will happen to people who have been convicted of marijuana possession crimes post-prohibition. Will they apply for post-conviction relief? I would think.