This Week In Weed: Toke Me Elmo
Philadelphia recently announced plans to all but decriminalize the possession of small amounts of marijuana (up to 30 grams) for personal use, but that certainly didn’t help out a 33-year-old single parent who was busted by cops this week after stashing weed in his son’s Elmo backpack. Ronald Washington — who accidentally placed two bags holding 105 grams of dope in his six-year-old son’s bag and was met by police when he went to school to retrieve it — is being held after failing to post $100,000 bail on charges of possession of a controlled substance, possession with intent to deliver, and disorderly conduct. “It was something dumb,” said Washington, who realized the stoner switch-a-roo when he tried to roll up and smoke his son’s school lunch.