The Department of Public Safety officers seized nearly $60,000 worth of an especially potent type of marijuana near Tonopah, Saturday afternoon, from a vehicle that they had initially pulled over on account of improper display of a license plate.
According to the officers, the occupants of the vehicle were behaving in a fishy manner and the inside of the vehicle also smelled a strong marijuana odor.
When a drug sniffing dog was bought to the site it led the officers to a trunk containing 14 pounds of hydroponically grown marijuana packed in air-tight plastic bags.
The arrested suspects include 49-year-old John Conniff, a respiratory therapist and his wife, 47-year-old Michelle Conniff, a sixth grade teacher, both living in Phoenix.
The Conniffs were also found to be carrying a list of the types of marijuana when they were arrested. They now face charges of possession of marijuana for sale, haulage of marijuana for sale and conspiracy to dole out and sell marijuana.
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Wow
The state could have earned $5,125 if there was an 8 percent tax on that marijuana, and could have also earned $11,200 if they charged $50.00 per ounce that was sold... That's $16,325.00 that could have been used on police salaries to fight violent crimes, road construction, debt management, etc.
It's a shame people still have to deal with this outrageous thing called 'prohibition' when "Americas Cash Crop" could be grown, sold, and used here in the United State by American growers, rather than the crop being brought in from Mexico, or Canada where Canadian, and Mexican growers and cartels reap the harvest of rewards.
So now the state is out upwards of $16,325.00 that they could have earned by taxing and regulating rather than costing Arizona tax payers money (Remember, Arizona residents get to pay $22,476 per inmate per year that is in their prisons)
Not to mention
7.52% of arrests taking place in Arizona in 2002 are Marijuana related.
Marijuana consumes 78.29% of ALL DRUG RELATED ARRESTS in Arizona.
Now, whether you have smoked marijuana or not doesn't matter at this point...
Do you see what this is costing your system? Lets take a look a factual statistics
In 2002 15,535 people were arrested for marijuana related offenses... If you take the average cost to imprison someone in Arizona, divide it by 365, take the result, multiply it by 15,535 and you get $947,635 (minimal costs considering paper work, employee pay time, etc.)
So I don't get it... Marijuana arrests needlessly cost money to the citizens of Arizona, and if you look at the statistics, marijuana arrests are the same as they were in 1998.
Why do we continue to pay for this sham of a policy? What are our police doing to earn their money? Certainly not much if 78% of their drug related arrests are for drugs that have been declared to have legitimate medicinal value in 13 other states.