Friend Of Cannabis Update

3 June 2010 - Kirsten Dunst has denied smoking pot in a New York court. The actress was testifying in case of a man allegedly accused of stealing her and her assistant´s purse from her suite at the SoHo Grand Hotel in Manhattan in 2007. A small amount of cannabis was found in her assistant´s bag.

That same year she was quoted saying that "If everyone smoked weed, the world would be a better place" and admitted she likes to smoke weed

1 June 2010 - Travis Roesler, 27, a former football player for the University of Pennsylvania, a mixed martial artist and Wharton School grad, was arrested Wednesday night after police raided his University City apartment - which doubled as his martial-arts studio - and allegedly found $1.2 million worth of high-grade marijuana.

Narcotics South Capt. James Kelly said Roesler is part of a growing number of college-educated youth and collegians who have been caught growing pot. He said Roesler's case was the sixth such one that his squad has handled this year. Kelly said Roesler's operation was "extensive and intricate" and included 131 plants and nine pounds of cultivated and packaged pot.

"Young, educated kids are taking their intelligence and education and putting it to use," Kelly said. "No dummy could have set this up. It was a smart person using his intelligence for the wrong ends."

After receiving information and investigating, police served a search warrant on Roesler's apartment, on Spruce Street near 42nd, about 7 p.m.

Kelly said they found the main growing operation in an 8-by-10-foot room of the second-floor apartment. A smaller growing area was in a walk-in closet, he said. Roesler employed "state-of-the-art" generators, heat lamps and air-filtration systems to grow his hydroponic or "designer" marijuana, police said. The air-filtration system prevented the smell of the pot from traveling to the first level, which Roesler had converted into Babylon Studios, his mixed-martial- arts training center, Kelly said.

Roesler, who, according to his Facebook page, graduated from Penn in 2006 with degrees in management and nutrition, was once prominent in the local mixed-martial-arts (MMA) scene. In a 2006 posting on Full Contact Fighter Blog, Roesler was described as a "one badass dude" and "the master of devastating body blows."

Kelly said that after being arrested, Roesler told police that he was due to be on an episode of MTV's "Bully Beatdown," on which bullies take on mixed martial artists for a chance to win $10,000.

"He's supposed to be pretty accomplished in that field," Kelly said. "He was open about his status in that field, but not about anything else."

Roesler did not resist arrest when cops showed up to his apartment, Kelly said. Court records showed that as of yesterday he was being held on $300,000 bail. Police said that Roesler may have been selling to college students and that his operation was so established, it could have been going on for a couple of years.

Roesler also had hallucinogenic mushrooms and cash in his apartment, police said.

He was charged with manufacturing, possessing and delivering marijuana, and risking a catastrophe and recklessly endangering another person for the health and safety dangers the operation caused, Kelly said.

Source: www.philly.com

27 May 2010 - Zach Randolph, star player for the Memphis Grizzlies, is involved with a man accused of dealing marijuana. The NBA star reportedly provided cars and a house used for trafficking drugs.

Lt. Jeff Duhamell of the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department said the Memphis Grizzilies forward has not been charged but Arthur Boyd, who was driving a Cadillac Escalade registered to Randolph, was arrested on suspicion of dealing.

Four of Randolph's cars were seized by the police.

One detective described Randolph, born in Marion, Indiana, as financing known drug dealers in Indianapolis.