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Marijuana left at Goodwill drop box

By Shaun Hittle

July 16, 2011

There was a little extra buzz Saturday morning at the Lawrence Goodwill, 2200 W. 31st St.

A store employee found a container with a small amount of marijuana in a donation drop box at the store about 8 a.m.

The substance was mixed in with a variety of other donations, said Lawrence Police Sgt. Ted Bordman.

Bordman said he believed the marijuana was probably donated by accident.

"I don't think they did it on purpose," he said.

The marijuana was confiscated by police, and will be destroyed, he said.

A Goodwill store manager declined comment on the incident.

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PopcoRN 1 year, 11 months ago

Isn't the Goodwill store on 31st St? I thought it was a Salvation Army store on 23rd.

shaunepec 1 year, 11 months ago

Thanks for the catch. It's been fixed...

Boston_Corbett 1 year, 11 months ago

Liberty275 1 year, 11 months ago

+420!

hawkman8950 1 year, 11 months ago

unintentional or not, very generous to say the least

beatnik 1 year, 11 months ago

do they have a number to call to claim it?

ksjayhawk74 1 year, 11 months ago

Yes, but it's the same number as the Douglas County Police department.

I would not suggest calling.

RoeDapple 1 year, 11 months ago

Umm . . honey? Have you done something with the bag of clothes I had by the back door?

rockchalker52 1 year, 11 months ago

Now that's some really good will right there.

Liberty275 1 year, 11 months ago

They should have sold it and fed hungry people with the money. O wait, never mind, better to see kids starving than an adult doing what he wants with his body. It's the American way. Now go drink your liver away.

none2 1 year, 11 months ago

Yea, right. We want adults doing all sorts of things to their minds while driving on the road, running equipment, operating on us, fixing cavities on us, building bridges, dams, skyscrapers, and thousands of other things that we rely on others do their jobs to the best of their abilities. After all there is always a foreigner who can do it for us while we recreate our society to mediocrity. Plus we wouldn't want an American child to go without more food so that they can fit into those wonderful plus size clothes that are donated at the thrift stores.

yoornotmee 1 year, 11 months ago

Or how about we make it legal for adults to do things with their bodies and minds but keep it illegal to drive, operate machinery, etc, while under the influence. That seems pretty common sense to me.

Liberty275 1 year, 11 months ago

Red Herring. Fallacy -> /dev/null

Nobody wants people working or driving under the influence of any substance. Try sticking with the subject. DUI is and should remain against the law.

none2 1 year, 11 months ago

Oh yea right. If it doesn't conform to your warped ideas it is void.

Drug use will be limited to 5:00 pm until 8:00 am the next day and the lunch hour of course. We all know all effects of chemical usage goes away instantaneously. And we all know that the best medical professionals are drug users who are experts on being their own medical advisers.

We all know too that a person's behavior never affects anything around them because everybody really is an island unto them self.

But lets ignore all that. The important thing to your premise is that we so we need drug revenue to feed starving American children. American children are drying right and left from starvation.

Liberty275 1 year, 11 months ago

"Oh yea right. If it doesn't conform to your warped ideas it is void. "

No college boy. Introducing irrelevant arguments makes you post void.

Do you equate having a glass of wine at dinner with DWI? Are they the same thing? No? Then they would marijuana or cocaine use be the same as a DWI?

"We all know all effects of chemical usage goes away instantaneously."

The only effect that matters is intoxication and the amount of time a chemical continues to intoxicate is well studied.

"everybody really is an island unto them self."

The only bit of reality you could find, eh?

"American children are drying right and left from starvation."

Children are going hungry. Few are dying from hunger, but thousands have died for no reason other that the stupid war on drugs which is just another form of prohibition that is a classic overstepping of federal authority and a violation of state's rights.

You come up with a good reason for marijuana being illegal with a premise that isn't hypocritical or already punishable by law and you will have a good point. You haven't made one yet.

none2 1 year, 11 months ago

You have yet to come up with a good reason to legalize it either -- except that you want to.

To say that because people will do it anyway, it should be legal, is a silly premise. With that kind of logic why have most of the laws on the books? For instance, some people are going to speed on the highway. Why have any law against it? If there is a crime, it should simply be reckless driving -- not speeding in-and-of-itself.

If you cannot cope with life without chemically playing with yourself, then please stay off public roads and avoid occupations where society depends on you to be at your best.

Then if and/or when you get sick and tired of wallowing through life, check out AA or NA. You don't have to be a follower of a particular religion to benefit from 12-step. You just have to be willing to admit you have a problem and need help. It takes a big person to make that step, but you can do it if you try.

TheOriginalCA 1 year, 11 months ago

Yet again, more green sh*t in Lawrence this week...

raerae 1 year, 11 months ago

+1 FTW!

trailertrash 1 year, 11 months ago

What would it take to get the job to "destroy" the confiscated marijuana? I could think of more than one way to do it. Would never become a boring job. Is that why the cops hang out at the donut shops?

Jstanobservation 1 year, 11 months ago

It's ok,I am sure they will burn it.

eotw33 1 year, 11 months ago

Passing a drug test.

BruceWayne 1 year, 11 months ago

maybe someone just couldn't wait to shove money into the Core-less money meters coming soon to a downtown corner near you.

wissmo 1 year, 11 months ago

Good Grief, what if it landed in the wrong hands. I know what this drug can do, I saw reefer madness in the 60s. Golly, what if women ripped open shirts and well, you know. Showed private parts even stuff under the bra. The horror. Women running around without shirts and bras. Oh my! Enough enough, make the stuff illegal.

I bet there were pipes and other paranormal things around the area.

none2 1 year, 11 months ago

You are not keeping up with the times. The 60's was eons ago. We all know now that it is the first real replacement for Jesus:

It heals the sick, takes away pain, makes breasts more voluptuous, balances world budgets, freshens breath, flosses teeth, eliminates gas, stops the destruction of the world's forests, is green, builds houses, helps drivers concentrate on K-10, lengthen's life spans, helps improve lung functions, improves artistry, and to top it off long term users not only walk on water but excrete golden eggs.

sunflowerkid35 1 year, 11 months ago

The real miracle is that it also gets you stoned.

Liberty275 1 year, 11 months ago

Fear monger... unless the girls are like, in a sorority, ya know.

Scruggsy 1 year, 11 months ago

Wow- far out, man!

deec 1 year, 11 months ago

I knew some guys in the '70's who were from a family with 9 kids. A couple of the brothers got caught by the parents with a half lb.or so. The parents burned it in the fireplace slowly, lecturing the entire time. Most of the rest of the siblings were on the roof the whole time. And the ones who got caught knew it.