Arrested for chocolate

[MTPorcupine3]

http://www.naturalnews.com/024304.html

[Jared]

hooolyyyyy crap. this is insane! i don't even know what to say.

[David]

More victims of the police state.  Hope the cops reading this are proud.   

[lastlady]

It's official folks, the world has gone insane! 

[les nessman]

   I'm eating a homemade devils food cake right now.  *Tom Eckert voice* Avenge me!  Aveenge Meee!
Seriously though, wholesome foods and vitamins are under attack.  Look at Codex Alimentarius and
the plan to regulate US over the counter vitamins.  Its crazy.  I switched my diet from McDonalds junkfood
and corn syrup laden sodas to homemade bread with flour grown from local wheat, wild game such as
squirrel and deer, fish, garden vegetables, and last week an old couple provided me with all the fresh
heirloom seed apples I can eat.  When I started this change in diet, I was literally sick for a week because
our bodies grow accustomed to food loaded with preservatives and sweetened with corn syrup.

[Sam A. Robrin]

More victims of the police state.  Hope the cops reading this are proud.   

Of what?  They don't need reason, they don't need loyalty--all that they need is our fear, and they're doing a damned fine job of getting it.

[bouncer]

I'd like to say this is unbelievable but unfortunately it's all too easy to believe. How did we get to this point. I mean really how did the drug war and scares about terrorists eliminate common sense ? It used to be years ago cops were tough guys but if you weren't a real criminal you could go about your business and now everybody is harassed . This country has really gone this far it is sad really sad.

[grasshopper]

  This reminds me of that Cheech and Chong movie where they are at the Mexican border with a van made of Pot and the Gov thugs arrested the Nuns.
  The movie Airplain, the Nuns were arrested as the terrorists with RPGs and guns were waved through.  This is nasty stuff.
  This also remindsd me of the gyuy that buys plants and other plants in No. Mexico and pays cash, the feds confiscated his money caled him a drug dealer and the guy was out of luck, he didn't purchase his plants and his business tanked.
  Good job minions of Satan.

[KBCraig]

Those field test kits are really something. Here's a guy who just spent two months in jail charged with cocaine possession.

It was deodorant.

http://www.kare11.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=526242&catid=2

[lastlady]

I remembered this story, it's not just chocolate but soap too. Repeal ALL drug laws.

http://forum.newsarama.com/showthread.php?t=108334


Absurd GHB Drug Charges for Don Bolles, Drummer of the "The Germs", Stem From a Bottle of Dr. Bronner's Peppermint Soap Found in Van During Police Stop

ESCONDIDO, CA - The Bronner family, makers of the popular organic Dr. Bronner's Magic Soaps are shocked and disturbed by musician Don Bolles' April 4th arrest for felony drug possession after police alleged an 8oz bottle of peppermint Dr. Bronner's Magic Soap tested positive for the illicit drug GHB (Gamma Hydroxy Butyrate). The notion that anyone would put GHB in a rinse-off liquid soap product is beyond belief, and the police field test used must have been flawed or tampered with. GHB, which produces euphoria and is an alleged aphrodisiac when ingested, of course has absolutely no effect in a soap product that is rinsed off the hands and body.

Mr. Bolles, drummer of the legendary punk band The Germs, was arrested following a police traffic stop and spent three and half days in various jails in Orange County before being released early Easter morning. During a consented search of Mr. Bolles vintage 1968 A-108 van, Newport Beach police found a bottle of peppermint Dr. Bronner's soap which is made with organic coconut, olive, hemp, peppermint and jojoba oils. Felony drug possession could mean 20 years in prison if convicted. A pretrial hearing is scheduled for Friday, April 13, 2007 at the Harbor Justice Center, 4601 Jamboree Road Newport Beach, CA at 8:30am.

"I've used only Dr. Bronner's soap for 35 years," says Mr. Bolles. "I use it for everything - bathing, washing my hair, washing my clothes - it goes everywhere I go. I'm scheduled to go to Europe to tour with The Germs this summer, but these felony charges could keep me from traveling out of the country. This whole thing could be really devastating to a 50 year old guy just trying to make a living. I told the officer 'its soap, it smells like peppermint soap,' but he seemed intent on arresting me."

"It is totally outrageous that the police could be this malicious and idiotic," says Michael Bronner, Vice-President of Dr. Bronner's Magic Soaps. "This clearly is a case of profiling by the Newport Beach police of a person who doesn't look like the people who live in that town. We are paying the cost of Mr. Bolle's lawyer, and we demand the charges be dropped or proof from the police forensics lab of GHB contamination be immediately provided to us," said Bronner. Adds brother David Bronner, President: "We cannot imagine anyone putting GHB, or any other drug for that matter, into a rinse-off soap product that is lathered and rinsed off the body immediately. The Newport Beach police should see how much of a buzz putting beer in their shampoo gives them, and get a grip and apologize on their hands and knees to Mr. Bolles."

At the time of the arrest Mr. Bowles was driving his girlfriend, and fellow musician Cat Scandal to an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting in Newport Beach. "I had heard of GHB but the police had to tell me what it was," said Bolles. "I'm going to fight these charges."

To arrange an interview with Don Bolles, Michael Bronner or David Bronner please contact Adam Eidinger at 202-744-2671. Email: adam@drbronner.com