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Idaho State police make largest pot bust in their history,
hauling in 7,000 pounds of . . . hemp?
DIR By: Ghosttruck
Date: January 30, 2019, 10:24 am
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> Idaho State Police officials say troopers made the biggest
marijuana bust in the agency's known history after a semi-truck
allegedly filled with nearly 7,000 pounds (3,175 kilograms) of
marijuana plants was stopped between Boise and Mountain Home.
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> ISP spokesman Tim Marsano said Tuesday the truck from
Portland, Oregon, was stopped on Jan. 24 as part of a routine,
random commercial vehicle safety inspection. The driver's bill
of lading — a document that details the cargo in the shipment —
said the trailer was carrying 31 bags of hemp.
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> Hemp and marijuana plants look and smell very similar to one
another, but hemp plants typically contain less than 0.3 percent
of THC — the psychoactive chemical in marijuana — while
marijuana plants generally contain anywhere from 15 to 40
percent THC. The plants also have different uses: Hemp can be
used to produce a variety of products including food, industrial
oil, paper, flour and clothing. Marijuana plants are often grown
for their THC content, and are legal in Oregon, Washington and
several other states but illegal in Idaho.
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> The trooper detected a strong odor of marijuana during the
inspection, and so opened one of the bags and performed a field
test, Marsano said. The field test showed the plant to be a
marijuana plant, and a subsequent team of K9 drug-detection dogs
that arrived also indicated that marijuana was present, he said.
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> Marsano could not say how low of a THC content will generate a
positive result by the field tests or whether the dogs were
trained to differentiate between marijuana or hemp, however.
Still, he said transporting anything containing THC is a
chargeable offense in Idaho.
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> "Between the field test and the K9 indication, Idaho State
Police feel strongly that the load was actually marijuana and
not hemp," Marsano said. "However, we have sent a sample of the
load to an independent laboratory for further analysis."
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> The driver, 36-year-old Dennis V. Palamarchuk of Portland,
Oregon, has been charged with felony drug trafficking, Marsano
said. It was not immediately known if he has obtained an
attorney.
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> "This is the largest seizure of marijuana by the Idaho State
Police in anyone's memory," Marsano said.
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> In total, the plants seized from the truck weighed 6,701
pounds (3,040 kilograms), he said. If the plants do test
positive as marijuana, the seizure will dwarf totals seized by
the ISP for each of the past five years. For instance, in 2014,
the state police seized roughly 319 pounds (145 kilograms) of
marijuana. Total seizures remained below 1,000 pounds (454
kilograms) for the next two years, reaching a total of 2,131
pounds (967 kilograms) in 2018, Marsano said.
>
> Marsano said he did not know when the independent lab would
complete testing on the plants.
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#Post#: 727--------------------------------------------------
Re: Idaho State police make largest pot bust in their history,
hauling in 7,000 pounds of . . . hemp
DIR By: Ghosttruck
Date: January 30, 2019, 10:24 am
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This is a huge waste os taxpayer $ and police time! WTF!
#Post#: 729--------------------------------------------------
Re: Idaho State police make largest pot bust in their history,
hauling in 7,000 pounds of . . . hemp
DIR By: Satanica
Date: January 30, 2019, 10:31 am
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Really? Another case of LE not getting the memo. Get used to it,
because the hemp industry is now being revived and there will be
many more trucks if we're lucky. Hemp is incredibly useful (as
is marijuana!).
#Post#: 766--------------------------------------------------
Re: Idaho State police make largest pot bust in their history,
hauling in 7,000 pounds of . . . hemp
DIR By: KatO9Tails
Date: January 30, 2019, 11:57 am
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hem and pot both need to be made legal federally and especially
hemp. Environmentally as well as all the uses hemp can be used
for DuPont deserves to be sued for the decades it has been made
illegal as they are responsible when they introduced their
cancer causing synthetic fibers for items along with and among
their other ven more serious atrocities
#Post#: 856--------------------------------------------------
Re: Idaho State police make largest pot bust in their history,
hauling in 7,000 pounds of . . . hemp
DIR By: Bones
Date: January 31, 2019, 3:16 am
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You're outta control, the rivers that roll
You fell into the water and down to Idaho
Get out of that state, get out of that state you're in
You better beware
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