Pot Dealer Busted After Advertising Business On Craigslist

QUINCY, Mass. — A man has been arrested after he allegedly placed an advertisement on Craigslist selling marijuana. Police said undercover detectives responded to the advertisement and bought a small bag of pot from 30-year-old Christopher Gray for $45.

According to police, Christopher Gray posted the advertisement on the online classified site with the words "420 help is here." The item read "Give me a ring if you need some help," and listed a phone number, which a detective called Friday and arranged for a meeting with Gray in Quincy.

The term "420" is believed to stem from the time of day that smokers at a California high school in 1971 would meet to smoke pot.

A telephone listing for Gray was disconnected and it was unclear if he had an attorney.

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Information from: The Patriot Ledger, http://www.patriotledger.com

Comments

[SoCooLBob]

What I would like to see is a take-off on this highly successful promotion ...

http://www.areallygoodejob

And then receive a rational answer on why whino's are preferred over
pot heads?

Who knows what happens when one drinks wine? Whine ...

[steve52]

The guy probably thought the police have better things to do than sit around surfing Craigslist.

Seriously, when will we stop spending huge sums of money and ruining people's lives in the name of a futile effort to stop something that most people believe is no big deal? You can legally drink yourself to death or use tobacco, which kills nearly half of it's users--just think about THAT for a minute--but smoke a joint or grow a plant that has never killed even one person, and you're a criminal.

Ridiculous.

[JessWonderin]

Great use of Police resources and municipal funding . . .

2006 Crime comparison:
Forceful RAPES PER 100,00 people
Quincy - 25.33
San Francisco- 20.64

Guess you're safer smoking a joint in San Francisco than being a WOMAN in Quincy . . . .

It cost $80,000 a year to house ONE prisoner PLUS the cost of trials . . . for $45 worth of weed???

[katocat]

First we pay for the detectives salary and benefits to do this, then we will have to pay for treatment and drug testing, then we will have to pay for this gentlemen's welfare (if not prison time) for the rest of his life because now he is going to have a very hard time getting a job with a drug offense on his record.

Another life ruined by a ridiculous policy.

[katocat]

O boy. Big bust. They must be so proud.

Our tax dollars at work.

[oceanofconsciousness]

yeah, let's go after the big fish like this dude. great use of taxpayer money. can't wait till it's legalized and we don't have such silliness.

[NewGenerationNewIdeas]

Phew, thanks goodness they've got this guy off the streets. Problem solved!!

[Trosface]

Legalize it.....Don't criticize it

[dogisgreat]

Advertise it.

[Benton]

Do they have any unsolved violent crimes in their district?

[JessWonderin]

Too busy ignoring the 644 burglaries (City data.com 2007) . . . . .

[tekjensen]

He probably thought of this idea while he was stoned. It probably sounded like a good idea at the time.

[Marklar]

Hah!

[iplaw]

Pot smokers aren't the sharpest knives in the drawer, though they think they are geniuses.

[HorseChowda]

There are many non-smokers who have done dumber things than this.

[snoopjohnny]

Unlike those who drink. Now there's a savvy crowd with their feet on the ground and a clear-eyed approach to, well, just about everything­.....inclu­ding legislation. I don't know what it is, exactly, but I can spot someone who drinks from, well.....all the way across the bar.

[katocat]

Some are geniuses.

[aigeanta]

Carl Sagan and Richard Feynman for example.

[Ryoki]

And yet ...I still don't feel safe.

[fumes]

a man ahead of his time!

(hopefully not too much ahead.. )

[Rinehart]

Someone broke in a neighbor's apartment and the police said, they don't have time/resources to respond to break ins, burglary or vandalism and wouldn't be coming out.