Posted by  ms. lomax, bradenton , fla on 09/28  at  08:39 PM

It is surprised me that mommy let her son put grow pot in her home dang. Ashamed on his own mommy.

Posted by  chris post, tampa on 09/27  at  07:56 PM

What a cool but not so bright mom.

Posted by  Robert Fentz, Clearwater on 09/27  at  07:21 PM

$2500....bail what ludicrous amount of money. It’s frickin pot. La de frickin da. Everyone think hard, I mean real hard, how many people do you know that pot has directly killed. Now think of all, JUST AS MIND-ALTERING OF A DRUG, ALCOHOL HAS KILLED, and it’s legal, so throw that whole legal/ it’s the law crap out the window, let’s talk numbers of related injuries and deaths. Can I grow mind-altering mushrooms in my backyard, legally? Pot is just another part of nature. Waste of resources busting a woman growing pot, instead think of how you help your socially accepted legally alcoholic brother/ sister/ mother/ father/ friend/ they need your help. My NON-POT smoking thoughts.

Posted by  Melissa Hansen, Lakeland, FL on 09/27  at  06:12 PM

Gayle, I think the reason we’re pointing you out is because you posted:- “Last time I checked statistice “Pot heads” tend to turn into “crack heads” - pot is an entrance drug."-

This is what we’re disagreeing with.  You say that your point was only that pot is illegal, but that is far from what you stated.  Don’t take offense when we disagree with you (especially when it’s painfully obvious you’ve never smoked pot and don’t know what you’re talking about).

Posted by  Gayle Deshner, Tampa on 09/27  at  03:40 PM

Robert, not sure whom you feel has been mean or rude.  I have been as pointed and frank as everyone else on this FORUM. My comments are just as warranted as anyone elses.  My point continues to be that no matter how angry some are that police are spending time arresting people like the mother/son in this article it is because it’s their job.  Make pot legal - I don’t really care - but until then it’s still a crime. Period.

Posted by  MIke White, Land O'Lakes, FL on 09/27  at  02:59 PM

Prohibition was in the 20’s, but your point is a good one.  It failed.

I’ve read two points from the “pot stoppers” here - pot is an entrance drug, and it’s against the law.  Both are weak.  While nearly all hard drug users started with pot, most pot smokers don’t move on to hard drugs.  And yes, it’s against the law.  So are many (surprising) things.  We have many outdated laws on the books.

Bottom line for me - who gets hurt or “wronged”?  To me, it’s obvious.  Legalize or at least decriminalize (holy rollers be damned!).

Posted by  Robert Menendez, tampa on 09/27  at  02:41 PM

There are more people in the upper echilon of society that smoke pot than any of you people that put others down will ever imagine. People that own homes and business’ that you all frequent and people that you voted for.
It is the moral right and nothing else that makes things the way they are and it wont stop because they will keep forcing their ways on other people. It would probably amaze you how much pot does not make it to the evidence room. Take note that those non pot smokers are the ones being mean and rude on this forum. Maybe you should get a life and stay out of others

Posted by  Patrick A. Collet, Valrico on 09/27  at  02:22 PM

This kid is charged with a felony for doing something even his mother thinks is ok. The gang members busted recently kill people, rob, and steal. Now WHY IS THIS KID FACING A FELONY CHARGE WILE THE GANG MEMBERS WHO HAVE MASSIVE RAP SHEETS ARE LET GO ON MINOR CHARGES. Anyone who sais that weed is a entrance drug is just saying what they have been told or would like to think to justify obviously unjust laws.

Hurray Kim.

I say decriminalise and offer help not jailtime that makes cons out of kids. 

Posted by  Bob Goodfellow, Tampa on 09/27  at  02:19 PM

Some of the most successful,most wealthy people(for example the President & 1st lady)have or still smoke pot. The fact is pot doesn’t lead to cancer or liver disease. No one has ever died from a weed overdose. Alcohol and tabacco are big business and so is treating(not curing) the illnesses they cause. It should be legal,but many people,especially ones in law enforcement would lose their jobs if that were to happen… And nobody wants that.

Posted by  martin steve, Tampa on 09/27  at  01:55 PM

i wish she was my mom when i was growing up.

Posted by  Gayle Deshner, Tampa, FL on 09/27  at  01:53 PM

Jane, use it as you want to. It is what it is.  If you think it will help outlaw chocolate - that isn’t my point.  Point is...it’s still considered to be against the law.

Posted by  Kevin Hudson, Tampa on 09/27  at  01:53 PM

Yes, why doesn’t TPD spend more time on important things like spending 2 years and $6,400 on investigating lap dancers and cocktails?

Posted by  Lynda Taylor, Tampa Bay on 09/27  at  01:43 PM

I agree with Kim, even though I haven’t smoked in 20 years, I know several people who smoke daily and they have never tried meth or robbed someone to support their habit. Awhile back there was a guy who got life for growing pot, meanwhile we got perverts walking around raping and killing innocent kids. And people like Rhonda Storms that keep their blinders on to gang activity and crimes with real victims! We all have a computer use it to send some e-mail to Charlie Crist or Jim Davis...they will address the real issues if they want to get elected. (myflorida.com)

Posted by  Kara Waynewright, Tampa, FL on 09/27  at  01:42 PM

I like what Joe Davis Has to say and agree wholeheartedly. Take it up with your Congressional Representative. These days ... Too much talk - not enough action.

Posted by  Markham W. Vinette, Tampa on 09/27  at  01:40 PM

Barbara Rosson, excellent comment. Whether we agree with it or not growing and using pot is against the law. The police are there to enforce all laws. They cannot pick and choose which ones they will enforce.

If people think that pot should be legal, which by the way, I do than they should stop complaining about the police doing their job and start writing letters to their representitives to get the law changed.

Posted by  Alexander Hernandez, Tampa on 09/27  at  01:20 PM

I bet that if all the money of pot
being sold would go to the government
it would be legal, just like cigarretes
and liqour.

Posted by  Jane Krug, U.S.A. on 09/27  at  01:00 PM

Gayle, alcohol and cigarettes are USUALLY the first “drugs” people use.
Why not make them illegal, if we follow the lame excuse you just used.

Posted by  Duane Davis, Sarasota, Fl on 09/27  at  12:23 PM

Seems like the general consensus here is to legalize marijuana. If that is the way most people feel, why hasn’t it been done.
Probably because our gutless politicians are afriad of offending the religious right who also seem to have a big contingent of followers in the law enforcement community.
It’s also good business for the justice system/business to keep churning out new criminals. The justice system in this country for the most part is just a good clean service related industry run by the upper and upper middle class to keep the lower class in positions of servitude.

Posted by  Mike Watson, Tampa on 09/27  at  12:20 PM

Perfectly stated Kim White. Exactly.

Posted by  Gayle Deshner, Tampa on 09/27  at  12:03 PM

Ms. White, I don’t really care what you think you know.  Reality (without pot eating your brain cells) proves otherwise.  I too have friends, family and acquainances who use or used pot and at one time or another they tried something harder.  If you care to get passed the end of your nose - there are many articles on this website regarding other types of “crimes” and it seems to me the police are also investigating or making arrests on them as well - so this little pot story isn’t the only thing getting law enforcement attention. No matter how little or big you think the crime may be - it’s still (until otherwise stated) is a CRIME!!

Posted by  dan razner, Tampa on 09/27  at  11:58 AM

sounds like kim white uses the wacky weed.  anyone who uses pot for 30 years needs something better to do.  they don’t call it “dope” for nothing

Posted by  jessica rentas, Brandon, Fl on 09/27  at  11:44 AM

WELL SAID KIM!!!! 

Posted by  KIM WHITE, ZEPHYRHILLS on 09/27  at  11:20 AM

FIRST OF ALL POT DOES NOT LEAD TO HARDER DRUGS.  I KNOW PEOPLE THAT HAVE SMOKED POT FOR 30 YEARS AND NEVER TRIED CRACK OR METH SO GIVE ME A BREAK.  IF GOING AFTER THIS MOTHER AND SON ARE ON THE PRIOITY LIST OF TPD FOR GROWING A POT PLANT SOMETHING IS TERRIBLY WRONG.  THEY SHOULD BE FOCUSING ON THE HARD CORE CRIMINALS WALKING OUT STREETS KILLING, RAPING AND MOLESTING OUR KIDS.  ALCOHOL DOES MORE HARM TO PEOPLE THAN SMOKING A JOINT.  LOOK HOW MANY PEOPLE ARE KILLED EACH YEAR BECAUSE OF DRUNK DRIVING.  LEGALIZE POT, TAX IT FOR INCOME AND WORRY ABOUT THE OTHER CRIME THAT REALLY MATTERS!

Posted by  Bob Vogel, Tampa on 09/27  at  10:57 AM

Maybe the cops can give the lap dancers the pot and save cash on the tips for the lap dancers!

Posted by  Gayle Deshner, Tampa on 09/27  at  10:48 AM

Last time I checked statistice “Pot heads” tend to turn into “crack heads” - pot is an entrance drug. Last time I checked it was still against the law to grow, use or sell pot - cops enforce the laws and therefore they were doing their jobs by arresting this mother-son duo.  Case closed.  But then again the rest of you have a much better plan to rid the streets of crime...let’s get your names on the ballots and applications into the law enforcement agencies.  Hop to it!!