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[Tom Hansen]

Two Florida retirees were charged with multiple felonies for cultivating two
- count them two - marijuana plants with an estimated street value of
eleventy trazillion dollars.

 

Courtesy of the Orlando Sentinel (Orlando, Florida) at:

 

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/crime/os-ultralight-plane-pot-bust-20100
730,0,2283526.story

 

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Men charged after landing ultralight plane near pot plants on island

By Jeff Weiner, Orlando Sentinel

 

An ultralight flight has landed two Brevard County men in jail on charges
that they cultivated marijuana in a conservation area in Volusia County, the
Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission said.

 

An agency inspector was working on the nearby Seminole Ranch Conservation
Area off State Road 46 about 9 a.m. Friday when he spotted an ultralight
plane land near a palm island in the St. Johns River, an agency spokeswoman
said in a release.

 

The inspector followed two men who left the plane and walked into the
island. Wildlife officers later discovered two marijuana plants they say the
men were tending on the island, spokeswoman Joy Hill said in the release.

 

Both men were booked into the Volusia County Jail later Friday.

 

The plane's owner, Ronald Thorstad, 53, was charged with cultivation of
cannabis and possession of a firearm while in commission of a felony, both
third-degree felonies, and use of paraphernalia, a misdemeanor. Passenger
James Nordby, 67, was charged with cultivation of cannabis and use of
paraphernalia.

 

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Two Brevard County men are accused of flying this small ultralight aircraft
to a palm island on the St. Johns River to grow two pot plants. A Florida
Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission investigator saw the plane land
and watched the men tend to their plants. Ronald Paul Thorstad, owner of the
ultralight, and James L. Nordby face several charges.

 

Ultralight_Plane.jpg

 

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And just how much do you think that this is going to cost the Florida tax
payers to charge, try, and incarcerate these "felons"?

 

Now, imagine how much state tax revenue would be realized by the state of
Florida if marijuana were legalized and regulated like . . . say . . .
alcohol.

 

Seeya round town, Moscow.

 

Tom Hansen

Moscow, Idaho

 

"The Pessimist complains about the wind, the Optimist expects it to change
and the Realist adjusts his sails." 

 

- Unknown 

 

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