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Posted on 05/11/2007 12:28:29 PM PDT by bamahead
DEARBORN, Mich. -- A police officer who admitted taking marijuana from criminal suspects and baked it into brownies with his wife will avoid criminal charges.
The police department's decision not to pursue a case against former policeman Edward Sanchez left a bad taste in the mouth of at least one city official, who vowed to investigate.
"If you're a cop and you're arresting people and you're confiscating the marijuana and keeping it yourself, that's bad. That's real bad," said City Councilman Doug Thomas.
Sanchez, who resigned last year from the department in this Detroit suburb, declined comment Wednesday. Police Commander Jeff Geisinger did not return calls seeking comment.
The department's investigation began with an emergency call from Sanchez's home on April 21, 2006. On a 5-minute tape of the call, obtained by the Detroit Free Press, Sanchez told an emergency dispatcher he thought he and his wife were overdosing on marijuana.
"I think we're dying," he said. "We made brownies and I think we're dead, I really do."
Sanchez later told police investigators that his wife took the marijuana out of his police vehicle while he was sleeping. In a subsequent interview, he admitted he got the marijuana out of the car himself and put it in the brownie mix, police said.
His wife was also not charged.
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A little less oregano, Chief. Try snorting them next time.
He’s gonna skate after baking his wife into brownies?!?
Does any of this actually surprise people????? You or I would be sitting in court right now.
Cannibal??? Cannabis??? Connection???
LOL! Good catch!
Carolyn
Dude.....
I think I have a HUGH case of the munchies....
The Canadian Association of Neurosurgical Nurses can check it out first thing Monday.
hugh never gets old.
"...and his wife 'Chong'..."
That 911 call was on TV. Hilarious!
"Conservatives" who support the Insane, Racist War on (Some) Drugs are a part of the problem.
The guy just made lemonade out of lemons...want some to go with your brownies?
From what I’ve been told, it takes a while for the effects to kick in if you eat the stuff. I’m betting that he & the wife ate a couple of brownies, waited a few minutes, didn’t feel anything, ate some more, and kept repeating the process until all of a sudden....
There’s that South Seas stoner treat, “long Dorito.”
I remember long ago seeing the plant jokingly miscalled cannibal saliva.
Audio source at link.
It is impossible to overdose on marijuana.
Why, pray tell, do I think of Sgt. Stedenko (Stacy Keach) in the old Cheech and Chong movies?
I agree. "Quit bogarding those brownies, dude!"
I’ve overdosed on brownies before.
Sounds to me that the cop had a hugh stuned on his beeber after consuming chocolate coated cannibas.
Me too.....a whole pan of brownuies and a 1/2 gal of milk.
Keyword browniewatch added and deserved.
You'd not only be in court, but your home would have been searched, you'd be fined, and possibly jailed, probation etc.
The cooking of the marijuana really changes and increases the high you get from it for some reason. I ate a pot brownie once in college and it felt more like dropping acid or eating magic mushrooms than taking a few hits off a joint.
Complete with a commensurate increase in paranoia and anxiety as well, if you are prone to it (I am).
Didn’t really like it.
Back in the day, around 1975 or so, several of us we were sitting in our dorm room one night when all of a sudden our friend T** jumped to his feet.
"I'm too high!!" he yelled. "I'm too high!!"
And he took off like a bullet and ran across campus and started banging on the door of the infirmary screaming, "I'm too high!"
Well, Nursey let him in and put him to bed in the infirmary.
Next morning Dr. "Doggie" Dore was standing at the foot of his bed reading the chart.
"So, too high huh?"
"Oh, no. Not at all." and T** promptly split.
No kidding. They should have to pay for their dope like everybody else.
Too funny!
Listen to the link at post #11.
Yep, this should be a felony charge and the man’s rights should be restricted. Being a law enforcement officer is a responsibility that should not be taken lightly.
LOL! I’m sure he’ll be real embarrassed tomorrow.
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“I think we’re dying,” he said. “We made brownies and I think we’re dead, I really do.”
LOL!
While there is not a single attributable case of marijuana overdose, marijuana has been adulterated with other substances which can cause overdose, toxicity, or allergic reaction.
Hunter S. Thompson had something to say about not being able to dose correctly when eating marijuana. Considering the crap he put himself through eating weed seems like a big deal.
“We cooked it into them” = clueless
What a wuss! I walked into my home, sat down on the couch, and discussed the next morning's drive to Florida while watching my parents faces drip down and puddle on the floor, having dropped a two way hit of Purple Haze. I haven't done any of that stuff for 30 years, but the number one rule is "You are JUST TRIPPING No matter if you think the universe is splitting apart, you are dying, you are dead, your brain will never return to normal, or that time is stuck in this weirded out dimension, IT AIN'T REAL." and the number two rule is "THEY DO NOT KNOW YOU ARE TRIPPING UNLESS YOU TELL THEM."Rule number three is to SAY NOTHING YOU DON'T ABSOLUTELY HAVE TO SAY, and when you do have to speak, make it "yes" or "no" or "I am not thinking real clear right now cause my stomach is upset. I need to go to bed, ok?"
That kind of flipped out stuff on marijuana? He deserved to get busted just for being such an idiot.
Too funny. That can’t be for real.
I always was a lightweight myself, and these days I don’t do it at all for a lot of reasons. But one day about 6 or 7 years ago my wife made some butter without my knowledge, and used it in a batch of Zataran’s black beans & rice we were having with dinner.
I thought the stuff was pretty good and I had seconds, maybe more. A short while after we finished eating I got the buzz. It became quite intense and it lasted through all of the next day.
But I didn’t think I was dying or anything like that.
They should have gone in SWAT style - pulled down one of his walls, blown his front door off its hinges, shot his dog, impounded his car (the one with the GUN in it), fired tear gas into the house, and then tazered him and his wife before cuffing them and dragging them both out of the house by their hair. Following this, DEA personnel should have confiscated his computer, torn the house apart to look for evidence of other wrongdoing (like high volume toilets, improper lighting fixtures, conspicuous amounts of prescription medication, more than 80 mg of ephedrine, more than 2 lbs of baking soda, torn mattress tags, electrical and plumbing code violations, etc), and then condemned the home and auction it off for 50% of its market value, while keeping all funds indefinitely (knowing that it will cost the couple more in legal fees than the money they would get back). The authorities should be able to lock these evildoers away for 20 years if they can compound enough charges.
Then, after they get out, they can put both their names on a drug offenders list, making employment difficult and restricting them to living no less than 300 yards from a school.
And don't forget the mother-in-law - there has gotta be something, maybe a dead tail-light or obstructed license plate or unlabeled medication in her purse (in one of those conveniently innocuous weekday pillboxes) that she can be arrested for and interrogated to ascertain if a warrant can be obtained to destroy search her home as well. Where there is smoke there is usually fire afterall, plus if she is innocent she has nothing to hide.
“Sanchez told an emergency dispatcher he thought he and his wife were overdosing on marijuana.”
He should be fired, not because he’s a thief, but because he’s too f’in stupid to be roaming the streets.
I heard the tape on Fox News Friday and it was hilarious. He should be jailed as anyone else but the tape was funny.
I’ve heard that cooking pot makes it many times more powerful than burning it. If you eat a marijuana brownie, you will fail a pee test for many many months. But if you smoke a joint, you might be able to pass a pee test in a week.
This is what i heard from a chic that lost her job at a tv station for failing a pee test.
I will say that when I read this story and heard the 9/11 call, I busted out laughing from remembering an incident in high school from the mid-1980s:
I haven't heard a claim that a person could overdose on marijuana since they made us longhairs watch a grainy outdated film from the early 1960s in Social Studies class where a flat-topped NYPD police detective with a Brooklyn accent swore to God that he personally witnessed a 15 year old girl rip her own eyes out with her thumbs in a police holding cell after smoking one single puff of deadly and illegal 'marihuana'. The class I was in rocked with such laughter about what a load of bullshit the film was that even the teacher was trying to hold back from giggling.
When oh when will 'law-n-order' conservatives finally realize that the typical law enforcement officer these days is simply someone too chicken to be a real crook?
You know, the violence commited by this councilman on the English language comes close to a Felony.
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