There has to be a better was to do this, guys. Border patrol agents are reporting another huge bust at the Lynden border crossing into Canada. Agents followed footprints they found on the Canadian side of the border into some bushes, where they found three individuals and two duffel bags filled with 115 pounds of marijuana. Despite the stoner stereotype of smoke-induced dimwittedness, these type of stories and the frequency which they are reported astonishes us. If you are dealing with hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of marijuana, surely you can come up with a better idea of getting it across the border than by foot, and hiding in some bushes. Or not, obviously. Since October of last year border agents in Blaine, Wash. have seized over 2100 pounds of marijuana in busts. more ›

Despite Seattle's herb-friendly reputation, there sure have been a lot of highly publicized marijuana arrests lately. Every time we refresh the local news sites it seems there is a new headline about an even larger scale bust. KIRO 7 has even started calling them "marijuana raids"--which is so Prohibition Era of them. more ›