Melvin Blevin is an 18-year-old pot dealer from small town Ohio. About a month ago D.E.A. agents raided the little bastard’s home and found 2000 lbs of marijuana hidden in his walls. They must not have confiscated it all though because he had apparently had just enough left over to torture a toddler with:
PATASKALA, Ohio — Police on Monday said they obtained video showing a teenager forcing a 2-year-old girl to smoke marijuana from a pipe.
According to police, a clerk at a Columbus pawnshop discovered the video after Melvin Blevins sold his camcorder for cash, 10TV’s Maureen Kocot reported.
“They were going through the hard drive on the camera and came across the video images,” said Pataskala Police Chief Chris Forshey.
Blevins, 18, was arrested last month when drug enforcement agents raided his home and found more than 2,000 pounds of marijuana, Kocot reported.
Agents also recovered $4 million in cash and dozens of firearms.
Police said the video showed Blevins holding a pipe filled with marijuana to the 2-year-old’s lips. A short time later, the child is shown seated on the lap of a 16-year-old girl.
The next 18 seconds showed the girl coughing and trying to speak, Kocot reported.
“Get your water,” a voice said.
Forshey said the video was one of the most disturbing clips that he’s ever seen.
“You can tell that she’s inhaling some of it,” Forshey said. “You can tell that she doesn’t want to. So it’s a pretty disgusting video.”
When asked if she wanted more, the girl shook her head no, Kocot reported.
“No?” a voice asked. “You’re good?”
Court records obtained by 10TV News revealed that Blevins told investigators that it was him in the video. However, Blevins told detectives that he did not remember doing it, Kocot reported.
Blevins doesn’t remember torturing a baby, nor did he remember leaving the tape in the camcorder he pawned for quick cash. I guess all that stuff about pot affecting short term memory isn’t a plot by “The Man” to keep the magical weed out of your hands after all.
And why’s a man who had literally a ton of pot in his house so broke he needs to pawn his belongings? I guess besides being a degenerate Blevins just isn’t a very good businessman.
But smoking pot is a “victimless crime” right? Tell that to the little girl.
Speaking of potheads needing money, Canada’s socialized medical system is getting stiffed by users who “need” medical marijuana. At this point Canada’s owed a half a million bucks from 462 tokers. They’ve turned to collection agencies to try to recoup their losses:
OTTAWA – Medical marijuana users are on the hook for more than $500,000 in unpaid bills for government-certified weed, raising questions about the effectiveness of Health Canada’s troubled dope program.
Newly disclosed statistics show that Health Canada has sent final notices – and sometimes dispatched a collection agency as well – to 462 registered users since government marijuana first became available in 2003.
“Most of the 462 individuals who have received a letter regarding their accounts in arrears have had their shipment ceased,” department spokesman Paul Duchesne said in an e-mail.
The unpaid bills, totaling $554,255 as of Dec. 31, have tripled in value in the last two years and have resulted in some seriously ill citizens returning to the black market for their medication. The marijuana distribution service was specifically designed to give patients a legal alternative to street dope.
Officials have handed 29 overdue accounts to collection agencies who so far have been able to recoup just $2,000.
The statistics, acquired through the Access to Information Act and questions to Health Canada, suggest a deeply flawed program as the number of users in arrears has soared to about two-thirds of all 739 patients licensed to buy government dope.
What? Chronic pot smokers not paying their bills? I’ve never heard of such a thing?
The article also raises some questions (in my mind at least) as to the legitimacy of the program at all. Medical marijuana is supposed to be given to terminally ill patients or to combat the symptoms of serious illness. However the users in the story fit those categories loosely to say the least:
Mark Schollenberg, 42, of Stoney Creek, Ont., uses marijuana to control chronic pain from a series of workplace injuries. Unable to work and on disability, he initially used street marijuana but changed his mind.
“I thought instead of causing myself any problems, I should get a licence and do it legally,” he said in an interview.
With a doctor’s approval, Schollenberg got a licence and ordered his first batch of Health Canada dope last summer assuming Ottawa would cover the costs.
He was cut off in October, now owes $3,962.34 including interest, and is back on the street to purchase his “medicine.”
“I can’t even afford the black market,” he says of his five-gram-a-day requirement.
Wait, so basically this is a guy on disability because his back hurts (I’ve never seen that scam before) who needs five grams of pot a day? When I had surgery on my stomach for a hernia (in which my hack surgeon gutted me like a fish) I was given a week’s worth of Vicodin and pat on the back. When my prescription ran out I took Ibuprofen and smoked clove cigarettes until I didn’t feel like there was six inch gash in my belly.
But I guess Canadians are just a little more delicate than a big strapping tough guy like professional blogger Rob Taylor.
But certainly I’d feel some sympathy for an HIV positive man who needs pot for his ailment right? Wrong:
Jason Wilcox of Victoria currently owes Health Canada $6,770.06, a number that will increase with interest charges each month.
Wilcox, 37, has been HIV-positive since at least 1993, and needs 10 grams of marijuana daily for nausea, for severe pain in his foot and to help him sleep.
He says he became angry on learning that Health Canada charges users 1,500 per cent more than it pays Prairie Plant Systems for the dope.
“At that point, I refused to pay,” he said in an interview. “Also, not to mention that their product is crap.”
Maybe somebody should have told Jason that foot pain and trouble sleeping were in fact not symptoms of HIV or AIDS. They are the kind of psychosomatic milquetoastery that Canadian health care accepts as an excuse for any lazy hippie who wants to spend his days complaining about what they don’t have while not working and getting high on the tax payers’ dime.
But I suppose hard working Canadians on the hook for the drug use of grifters is also a victimless crime. Just like forcing a two-year-old to toke up. It’s all victimless unless you’re one of the many victims that legalization activists always seem to ignore.
h/t Trench
Drugs of any kind can make you do just about anything. THE small freak is nothing but low life,bastard who depended on dope to get him a big ego, that freak was a willing participant to get the drug in his already sick system, he got it..
I agree Laura. 100%
I agree with everything you’ve said except, those with HIV or AIDS. HIV and AIDS affect people in differing ways and parts of their bodies and while I don’t know of this particular guy’s problems, I have first hand experience with a very dear friend who has HIV. His disease is in his brain and affects nervous system, causing severe pain in his limbs with brief numbness affecting his walk and near seizure like shaking in his body. He also sleeps only 2 hours per day due his brain working overtime. He was a gymnast. He won’t smoke pot as I suggest on numerous attacks (I don’t either), but I did notice that on the very rare instances that he did, his pain eased, his mind rested and he did sleep better — around five hours. Instead he relies on the meds that I pay for by having him on my payroll, and some gov’t assisted programs that would otherwise total him 3500-4000 per month for those people without such benefits. On these meds however, he is still in pain 24 hours a day, his thoughts are fragmented, speech completely slurred, his anger outrageous, his sensitivity to ANY noise beyond extreme. I think you may need to reconsider your INsensitivity or lack of knowledge in certain areas or illnesses, i.e. the little known Progressive Multifocal Leukoencephalopathy [link]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_multifocal_leukoencephalopathy[/link]
It’s not insensitive to say smoking pot for “medicinal use” is a scam. For years THC pills have been available, and I believe they even give you the same “high” as smoking. Why not get pills for your friend?
I’d also put forward that often people react different to pain when they are high than sober. Drunk people often hurt themselves and don’t realize it untill later. I think it’s dubious at best to think that there isn’t a pain medication that helps your friend but that smoking pot magically does. No offense, but is it possible he’s just more “fun” when he’s high so interpret that as help?
But before you answer try this experiment. get him drunk and see if he sleeps better, or since you’ve not a problem toking up try some downers. I’d bet the same magical effects you ascribe to weed is really a by product of intoxication.
Did you NOT read anything i said. I don’t smoke and he rarely did, maybe a handful of times in the 15 years I’ve known him and those times were within the last 5 years when the pain was unbearable and treatment was clearly new… please reread before commenting because it shows your ignorance. He takes his prescription meds ONLY for the last 4 years and those are the results I speak of (proof). Don’t be an idiot — do some research…even my Oxford Insurance doctors many of them cannot figure out his problems and how to treat them effectively — how could you? At stage in pain and degeneration, people can and should get relief however they can get it, with supervision of course in extreme cases. Again, don’t just “act” like you know, but show some proof, i have my friends medical bills as proof, after all he is on my payroll.
…and I have him living in the other half of my duplex because I’m the only family he has got, so proof again that I know he doesn’t buy pot…I am his paycheck…
So if you don’t like the weed why so upset? Your point was that pot worked better for your friend than perscription meds, I say that it isn’t the pot specifically. I didn’t insult you by the way but why should you engage anyone respectfully, being an anonymous poster on a blog has its perks I guess.
I frankly find it difficult to believe you don’t smoke pot since your comments get increasingly rambling and nonsensical as the night progresses. But be that as it may let’s cut to the chase.
I think that your friend can get the same results from drinking or taking some other drug. I say this because I used to like to drink and when I drank too much, I’d sometimes fall down and not realize I was hurt ’til later. I also used to sleep quite soundly.
Instead of offering proof that I’m wrong on this count you accuse me of being stupid, not reading your comment and claim that your friends medical bills are somehow proof that medicinal marijuana is not a scam. I think the ball is in your court on this one.
Tell me how your medical bills prove that medicinal pot isn’t bogus, which would I assume would make me “INsensitive” about illness.
Prohibition: Didn’t work then, doesn’t work now.
Repealing prohibition won’t work either. These two storeis wouldn’t be different if pot were legal, and that’s my point. There’s no such thing as a “victimless crime” which legalization activists say drug use is. It isn’t.
If you spend your life drinking and drugging, even if it’s only pot and beer, this is what you become, those are the people who you will be associating with until you’re sober.
I don’t put these stories up to support prohibition, but realism about drug use..
What a sick bastard. I hope he gets what he deserves!
…giving cannabis to a child is like giving nyquil to a child, minus the threat of overdose. This situation was inevetable anyway, but a freshly-baked cannacookie would have been more appropriate. I don’t let the media blind me with propoganda, but I know cannabis for what it really is… you figure that one out, you stupid sheeple.
no that basturd knew what he was doing i used to smoke marjauna heavly and u can remmber things. just not completly in order. or maby hes a stupid peice of shit and no one raised him correctly if anything his parents was ok with him being a dumb ass signd joseph matey
please dont hurt me….
oh and one more thing im not against pot smoking. but i am against what i just saw wtf. i wouldent even hit it if a child was even in the same hows thats so digusting the kid could grow a physical addicition and actully want to do it . pretty much then,, eh, u sickos
oh and another thing about the thc pills and wed scams.. its not true, thc pills help my older freind that i meet a church when he was going threw kemothreopy in 1980s and he survived cancer and thanks weed for it . thats just some stupid excuses to smoke but smoking with a kid and making a baby smoke is wrong and no i dont belive that drinkin can be or should be compared with drinking i have had plently of freinds that smoked mass amounts of mota every day and once they started drinking there lifes where fucked. some even died in tragic accident but marjauna never hurt them. only at a certian age that u can actully even be physcily ready for smoking it but yes eating and other ways of consumming it would be more approiate for a child. but i still dont agree that its right nor should it be completly ileagle or leagle its tolarance just need to be looked at completly like cigs or alcs not in a vechical and low amounts of the shit.
Think about it, you’re having a discussion on weather weed has health benifits or does damage. Try arguing ciggarittes or McDonalds. Buutt out of the three, only one can send you to jail
And only one has the effect of mimicking schizophrenia with chronic use, and only one was forced into this baby by a couple of degenerates. So the question is if you think decriminalization will reduce the crimes committed besides possession and distribution (which will legally disappear) explain how this particular story would have been different.
Joey. Only the most immature scumbag would suggest it was OK to get a baby high under any circumstances.
Rob Taylor you can’t just draw the conclusion that decriminalization won’t reduce crime because of this ONE family who forced a 2 year old to smoke an absolutely harmless substance. Now everyone gets it, you don’t like to smoke pot, do you drink alcohol? I hope not.. that would be far too hypocritical. So all you really have against marijuana apparently is an effect of mimicking schizophrenia (enlighten me on when that study was conducted), and this one reported case.
Why don’t you look at the positive things that marijuana could give. A study at Harvard University found that THC cuts tumor growth in common lung cancer in half and significantly reduces the ability of the cancer to spread. Also, our jails wouldn’t be full of harmless pot smokers if it were decriminalized. Now, I understand that this guy is an idiot for forcing the child to smoke pot, but that doesn’t mean that you should blame it on the pot or try to pin pot as a bad thing. He could have just as easily been giving her alcohol or tobacco, or any other kind of substance, so don’t make pot the scapegoat.
Oy, Jeremy:
1) Decriminalization will only mean that certain activities that are illegal now will not be charged. It won’t “lower” crime any more than abandoning speed limits would reduce speeding.
2) Marijuana ISN’T harmless. At best it is a self-medicating/emotionally numbing coping mechanism that keeps people from maturing to the point where they can cope with reality. That’s why pot smokers you know that are 50 behaving similarly to ones you know that are 20.
But the story itself shows that pot smoking is no different than any other drug using activity. Blevins the dealer was “hooked” on a non-addictive drug to the extent that he couldn’t pay his bills. You yourself have a series of problems that will clear up if you ever got sober. And like an addict that last comment will make you angry. You should ask yourself why?
3) I don’t drink as a matter of fact.
4) Here’s information from the Harvard Medical School on pot’s ill effects, as well as a handy .PDF abstract of the 30 years of research that show Marijuana’s relationship to mental illness. I assume you’ll provide me the link to the study you’re claiming shows pot is “good” for you.
5) Our jails aren’t full of harmless pot smokers. No state throws people with recreational amounts of pot in prison. Dealers and people who commit other crimes (like rape, robbery and murder) are also slapped with possession charges often enough. A recent study found that half of all criminals, violent or not, tested positive for drugs at the time of their arrests for non-drug related offenses.
6) My Victimless Crime Files category is anecdotal proof that this idea of pot smokers doing crazy things being the exception and not the rule is bullshit.
As I’ve said before, I’m neither for nor against legalization. What I’m for is honesty in dealing with drug use.