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Listen: Two men smuggling marijuana while stoned call 911 on themselves
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Two men trying to smuggle 20 pounds of marijuana into Idaho got a little paranoid after dipping into their stash.

The pulled over and called 911 on themselves.

According to a recording obtained by the East Idaho News, Leland Ayala-Doliente and Holland Sward became convinced that just about every car sharing the road with them was a cop, so they called emergency dispatch and asked them to “just get on with this whole thing” — meaning their arrest.

You can hear the recording in this video:

“Hi, uh, we’re the two dumb asses that got caught trying to bring some stuff through your border and all your cops are just driving around us like a bunch of jack wagons and I’d just like for you guys to end it,” Ayala-Doliente says on the call. “If you could help me out with that, we would like to just get on with it.”

Police said nobody was following them at the time. Both men were sentenced last year to jail time for their offences.

Fast or slow on marijuana policy? Rona Ambrose's Vancouver radio interview leaves haze of confusion
OTTAWA — A confusing radio interview about whether the Liberal government should move slowly or quickly on legalizing and regulating the sale of marijuana may be smoking out the interim leader of the federal Conservatives.

Rona Ambrose is under fire for an interview with Vancouver station CKNW in which she said she wants to see the Trudeau government “take it slow” on legalization, but also concluded the government should move quickly to regulate Canada’s growing number of illegal pot dispensaries.

The former health minister said her concern has always been the public health impact of pot on developing young brains, and she pointed to a $7-million government anti-drug advertising campaign — launched while the Conservatives were still in power — as evidence.

“So again I say to the government, make sure that you take it slow, that you’ve got the right public health measures in place, the right restrictions to keep it away from kids,” said Ambrose.

“It’s a tough thing to do when you legalize something, because when you legalize it, you normalize it and it becomes more acceptable and more available.”

Three national medical organizations declined to endorse the 2014 taxpayer-funded anti-drug campaign, stating publicly that they could not “support or endorse any political messaging or political advertising on this issue.”

The government ads happened to dovetail with a sustained Conservative party ad campaign that accused Justin Trudeau of wanting to make pot more easily available to kids, including by selling it in corner stores near schools.

While the Conservatives were attacking Liberals over their legalization promise, illegal pot storefronts were popping up in Vancouver under the guise of medical marijuana dispensaries.

In the radio interview, Ambrose said: “The bottom line is there’s a huge faction of people in this country that want — that are mostly adults, to be frank — that want access to pot and they want it legalized and it’s for recreational purposes.”

She told CKNW the profusion of grey-market pot shops was the result of municipal decisions and she’s concerned those storefront operations are only growing in number across the country under the Liberals.

“We don’t have any sense of what the regulations will look like, but whatever they look like, Prime Minister Trudeau has said that he is going to keep pot out of the hands of children, so good, that’s what we need to do,” said Ambrose.

“So I hope the faster they move on this the better, because the proliferation of pot dispensaries is quite large, so it has moved now not just in Vancouver but across the country and they’re unregulated. So the sooner they can move on that, the better to protect kids.”

Ambrose was not available to clarify her position Thursday but a spokesman said she was clearly urging swift action on regulating dispensaries, not legalizing pot.

The Conservatives have not said how the government should regulate dispensaries selling an illegal product, but did propose decriminalizing pot possession during last fall’s election campaign.

The interview had Liberals howling about hypocrisy.

“Health minister who spent millions of your $ on misleading ads against pot wants us to legalize faster,” Gerald Butts, Trudeau’s principal secretary, wrote on Twitter in a post that included the hashtag “#chutzpah.”

So I guess her low intelligence is from too much alcohol consumption as a teen.

The Hippy said:

So I guess her low intelligence is from too much alcohol consumption as a teen.

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maybe being a politician lowers IQ...seems a lot of them couldn't find their asses with a mirror
they should test for that. give them an IQ test when they get in and then test every 5 years. also give them a test to see how "in touch" they are. i bet that score will decrease over the years

In Canada any body can get into politics. Not many Canadians want to bother with it that way. It's easy here to get into a party and then possibly be elected.
Really most of them have zero credentials for the job other than breathing in and out daily.
I've met several of these folks over the years and they seem versed in nothing at all. Other than not committing to anything and being a yes or no person when needed.
It's the only profession where absolutely ZERO education, experience or training of any sort is needed.
Personality is helpful and about all you need.