Feds: Nurse used COVID-19 crisis to sneak 150 pounds of pot into US

[alp227]

Source: Detroit Free Press

She showed up at the border in scrubs and a lab coat, the feds say, then got busted with a trunk full of weed.

A Canadian nurse has been charged with sneaking more than 150 pounds of marijuana into the U.S. by using her medical credentials — including a work badge from Henry Ford Hospital — to cross the border into Detroit, which is only open to essential travel because of the COVID-19 crisis.

“At a time when health care professionals are working overtime to keep us safe, it’s really shameful that anyone would exploit their status as a nurse to smuggle any kind of drug into our country,” U.S. Attorney Matthew Schneider said on Thursday, stressing: “To stop the spread of the coronavirus, our Canadian border is open only for essential travel."

Read more: https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/detroit/2020/04/23/canadian-us-border-henry-ford-nurse-weed-smuggling/3011817001/

[Mr.Bill]

1. What could be more essential

than 150 pounds of weed?

[BigDemVoter]

2. Damn!

[flibbitygiblets]

3. Pot has been legal in Michigan since 2018, don't we have more important things to worry about?

[flibbitygiblets]

3. Pot has been legal in Michigan since 2018, don't we have more important things to worry about?

[stillcool]

5. they'll confiscate anything that might help

[Grokenstein]

6. Dear Feds: NOBODY CARES.

Get back to us when it's something, you know, serious.

[DownriverDem]

7. 20 years

for pot is not worth it. Is it street pot or dispensary?

[Initech]

8. If there's anything we need as a society right now, it's pot!

[trixie2]

10. Absolutely!

In Michigan they were finally opening up a recreational store in my city and then we were on SIP.

[keithbvadu2]

9. Medical marijuana?

[47of74]

11. ok

[NotHardly]

12. The govt of the U.S. lies via Trump... always and forever... this article is therefore BS

I have no reason to believe anything the purported US says on anything, anymore. Ever. Trump lies and people die.. simple & unequivocal. Moreover, the FEDS steal materials, supplies, and equipment from states without paying... in my book that means they are simply THIEVES or worse Nazi Thieves... you pick. Stealing is stealing and stealing without an explanation is simply what Mafia types do.

[JI7]

13. how about the feds stealing medical protective supplies from health care workers?

[SharonClark]

14. She got pertmission to enter the country as an 'essential worker' to help fight COVID-19

Yeah, that pot will do a lot of good.
Asshole.