<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body dir="auto"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Courtesy of KHQ at:</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><a href="http://www.khq.com/story/26353949/idaho-police-seize-marijuana-arrest-oregon-man">http://www.khq.com/story/26353949/idaho-police-seize-marijuana-arrest-oregon-man</a></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">-------------------------------------</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><div id="WNStoryHeader" style="margin-bottom: 13px;"><h3 class="" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; clear: both;"><font size="3"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Idaho police seize marijuana, arrest Oregon man</span></font></h3></div><div id="WNStoryBody" class="" style="margin-bottom: 15px; display: inline; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><p style="margin: 12px 0px; padding: 0px;">MOUNTAIN HOME, Idaho (AP) - An Oregon man is facing a felony drug trafficking charge in southwest Idaho after police say they found 22.5 pounds of marijuana worth about $100,000 in his vehicle.</p><p style="margin: 12px 0px; padding: 0px;">The Elmore County Sheriff's Office says 53-year-old James Lewis Kelly of Oregon City became nervous during a traffic stop on Thursday.</p><p style="margin: 12px 0px; padding: 0px;">Kelly refused a request by police to search his vehicle, but a drug-sniffing dog outside the vehicle alerted to the presence of drugs.</p><p style="margin: 12px 0px; padding: 0px;">Police say a subsequent search found the marijuana in the vehicle.</p><p style="margin: 12px 0px; padding: 0px;">Kelly on Saturday was being held in the Elmore County Jail with a bail of $100,000.</p></div></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">-------------------------------------</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">In Colorado, the sales tax on $100,000 of cannabis amounts to $29,000.</div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><a href="http://taxfoundation.org/blog/colorado-begins-legal-marijuana-sales-collecting-marijuana-tax">http://taxfoundation.org/blog/colorado-begins-legal-marijuana-sales-collecting-marijuana-tax</a></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">I wonder how much the arrest, trial, and incarceration of this Oregon man is going to cost the Idaho tax-payer. Hmmm.</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Legalize it! Regulate it! Tax it!</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></span></div><div><img src="cid:A8697925-CD29-4D31-97CD-18D7CB3DFDEE" alt="image.jpeg" id="A8697925-CD29-4D31-97CD-18D7CB3DFDEE" width="224" height="230"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></span><br><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><a href="http://www.moscowcares.com/" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000">http://www.MoscowCares.com</font></a></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Tom Hansen</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Moscow, Idaho</span></div></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"There's room at the top they are telling you still.</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">But first you must learn how to smile as you kill,</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">If you want to be like the folks on the hill."</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">- John Lennon</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></div></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>