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SACRAMENTO (CBS13) – A man accused of endangering his child by allowing him to remain inside a car filled with marijuana smoke denied the allegations and said he never would have allowed his son to be put into a dangerous situation.

The Sacramento Police Department said officers pulled over a vehicle carrying two adults and a child in South Sacramento on Wednesday, finding a car that was allegedly so thick with smoke that officers couldn’t immediately see the two-year-old boy in the back seat.

The child’s father, J.C. Monroe, disputed the account in a jailhouse interview with CBS13 and vehemently denied that anyone had been “hotboxing” inside the vehicle.

“My son was in the car, there was some smoke, but it was not a hotbox,” Monroe said. His friend, who has a medical marijuana card, had just taken his first puff when officers pulled them over, he added.

“Hotboxing” is a slang term that describes smoking marijuana in a small, enclosed space, allowing the smoke to remain in the air for as long as possible.

Monroe said he loves his son and his two young daughters, and although he will likely miss his youngest daughter’s first birthday, he plans to fight the charges and hopes to be home by Christmas.

Monroe was arrested on charges of child abuse and probation violation and is being held on $82,000 bond. The boy’s mother has taken custody of the child.

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  • Linda

    What a creep!! Just because you want to be a loser pothead don’t expose it to your 2 year old!

  • mike

    roni your the only one talking about monkeys and black seems your the one with being the racist here

  • Jeff

    Upon further inspection Police managed to locate three Pork Bellies, two Sausages, and a Chinook Salmon!

  • Society is full of idiots

    While it is totally unacceptable for this to occur at ANY level, I find the information provided a bit ‘off’
    “The Sacramento Police Department said officers pulled over a vehicle carrying two adults and a child in South Sacramento on Wednesday, finding a car that was allegedly so thick with smoke that officers couldn’t immediately see the two-year-old boy in the back seat.”
    If they couldn’t see the child, how was the driver seeing the road?

  • Society is full of idiots

    Ok watched the video. How can you be innocent when you exposed your child to pot by your own admission? It does NOT matter how much! He;s arguing semantics,. The people are arguing safety of the child. This guy is an idiot.

  • Bill G.

    Yeah, this guy is a skunk and obviously lying.

    And I accidentally hit “Report Comment” instead of “Reply”. There’s nothing wrong with your comment.

  • jgpicker

    uh..driving while impaired anyone?

  • Chad

    Medical pot patients ARENT allowed to smoke in the car anyways

  • Concerned

    And THIS is exactly the problem with legalizing pot/drugs. Who will protect the innocen children who may otherwise choose in life to stay away from drugs? Kids who live with a dope-smoker will, in all probability, end up being a dope-smoker, just as children have done with cigarette-smoking parents.

  • Joeybagofdonuts

    Check this, you can’t hotbox while you’re driving. The car ventilates itself while it’s moving. Trust me I’ve tried many times. You just can not get an effective greenhouse/hotbox going in a moving vehicle, any moving vehicle. I wish you could, it just doesn’t work.

  • Andy

    If the story is true and the cops said they could not see the kid in the backseat then the cops are lying for sure! It would have to take a lot of smoke to fill a car to the point that passengers were not visable. Furthermore, if the cops couldn’t see the kid in the backseat then how did the person driving the car see? However, those guys should not have smoked in the car at all with a kid in the car even with a medical card.

  • Baldy Kirby from Atlanta

    What in the hell are you talking about?

    What is this? A preemptive strike?

  • rex dart eskimo spy

    What ever happened to our free society? Where people minded their own business? When did it become fashionable to impose your values and prejudices upon someone else? What gives you the right to interfere? Are you somehow smarter than him? Or is it because he’s black? does that make it okay to interfere in how he chooses to raise his children? Pot is always the excuse police use to incarcerate undesirables.

  • gomez addams

    knee groes … what a lost culture.

  • matt2717

    You absolute idiot. What makes you think you have the right to endanger innocent people on the road by doping it up while you’re driving? Wanna do it in the privacy of your own home or at a friend’s, fine. But don’t get behind the wheel high. I hope you get caught and are thrown under jail with the rest of the vermin. Geeez.

  • rufus levin

    obviously the kid was driving…the “daddy” was stoned and sitting in the back seat singing rap music with his homie bud. The kid was more grown up, but did not have a proper valid drivers’ license.

  • Buford T. Justice

    My parents smoked in the car every day of my childhood taking me to school, and never once did I have to talk to them by phone through plexiglass. Different world then.

  • Jimmy Limo

    While it’s completely LAME to expose a 2-year-old to ANY smoke, this is still not HALF as bad as the idiots I see driving with kids in the car and SMOKING TOBACCO, a proven killer… why no reporting on THIS which happens DAILY in America, HUNDREDS if not thousands of times. Now THAT”S criminal child abuse ?!!?

  • rufus levin

    you know…you are correct. they should have stopped him and given him a metal for heroism and a certificate as Father of the Month. Then they should have drug his black butt out of the vehicle with his buddy and beaten them until they were toothless, bleeding, and black and blue with broken legs and ribs.

    Then wished them well and hope the marijuana helps out with all their medical problems.

    Police…here to serve and protect!! yassa

  • http://www.belch.com/blog/2011/12/02/victimless-crime-dad-hotboxes-his-car-with-son-inside/ Victimless Crime: Dad Hotboxes His Car With Son Inside

    [...] Thanks to CBS for the story. [...]

  • rufus levin

    yep….bet they died from lung cancer too…maybe you will from second hand smoke. stupid is as stupid does. smoking is stupid.

  • Odins Acolyte

    It certainly didn’t hurt the kid and probably made the child quiet down. OMG good thing it wasn’t nasty old tobacco smoke! (sc off)

  • Tyrone Unhahawa

    Why are there so many playa haters on this site?

    The man HAD A MEDICAL MARIUJUANA card, so his smoking was legal. The cops had no right to arrest him! On what grounds? Lets get real here. A lil smoke never hurt anybody. That kid is fine and was never in danger. I think these cops are racists.

  • rufus levin

    No “strike” that is only for UNION WORKERS. These hommies don’t have ANY job to STRIKE from, preemptive or otherwise….just losers…Glad the Police got them.

  • Jordan

    Yeah, we should be allowed to smoke crack with our kids in the back seat while the drink a 40oz. Windows up and the music so loud it hurts the kids ears.

    You aren’t free to yell fire in a movie theater, unless there is a fire.

    Your comment is so absolutely ridiculous. Read a book on ethics, logic, reason, how children’s brains develop, etc.

  • Buford T. Justice

    But you don’t legislate against stupidity. Just calling it stupid should be enough.

  • jshell

    That has to be the dumbest argument against legalizing drugs I’ve heard yet.

    So, lemme get this straight…

    If pot remains illegal then nobody will smoke in front of their kids.

    But if we legalize pot, all of sudden, everybody is going to be toking up with their kids in the room?

    You are a small thinker. Actually, you should probably stop thinking while you’re ahead.

  • rufus levin

    bev…you wear a seat belt in the car? didn’t used to did you? times change, folks get aware of reality and sometimes stuff improves when same ole same ole just doesn’t cut it anymore. this isn’t 1950 and those days are never coming back.

  • sueinmi

    ..and most chronic dope smokers don’t work and are clinically depressed. No wonder we have children who are incapable of being educated. Exposure to infants is unthinkable. Why do women make kids with these losers, knowing what their child will be exposed to?
    http://www.okanaganclinicaltrials.com/public/column.php?category=Addiction&title=Marijuana+use+and+psychiatric+illness

  • pixie1942

    what do you expect in the state of potheads, also known as commiefornia

  • Buford T. Justice

    Look around, rufus, the 1930s are coming back.

    Everything old is new again, even personal responsibility.

  • Mom.

    More hysteria. Marijuana does not impair people like alcohol does. Studies confirm this. If anything it causes people to slow down a little, because they’re not all stressed out. It *improves* perception and coordination for some people. It’s an excellent anti-anxiety medicine. It takes a lot to “get high” and alcohol is still worse. I’d rather drive with a regular medicinal cannabis user, or even someone who’s smoked recreationally, than with someone who’s drinking. If someone’s been smoking and is too impaired to drive, it’s because they’ve been drinking too. Medicinally used marijuana is much less of a concern than say, pain pills, or even cold medicines. Even recreationally used, the effects are still much preferable to alcohol, and they dissipate within an hour. When are you morons going to get off the “demon weed” propaganda? Y’all don’t realize the “war on drugs” has been nothing but the cover up for a civil war that’s being waged on We the People, and the excuse for establishing a police state. Y’all have fun in the gulags, now.

  • dontbehypocritesnow

    Oops sorry, cool liberal daddy, that was smoke. You’ve already given us the rules for smoke. And kids were there? OMFG. You are the most evil creature that ever lived and your children should be ostracized and taunted at school as the “kids of that guy that smokes”. Evil smoker hater racist that you are.

  • Perry

    I’m bettin not THAT full…

  • rufus levin

    well, do we get segregation and slavery back with our Obama boy created depression too? maybe we need to go back to 1830.

  • Tyrone Unhahawa

    Hey Rufus you are a racist POS. Better pipe down or this ignant ni66er as your called me is going to easily run a traceroute back to your ISP, then easily access your MAC/ISP customer table and then send my homies to find you. Don’t mess with an African American computer genius you fool. You know not what you are getting yourself into.

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  • fauvado

    I despise liars. I’m not a racist, but pretend I am. Find me, liar. You can start by telling everyone here how you’re getting my IP address from this post.

    crickets

  • rufus levin

    come on buddy….I wanna watch your genious hook through a maze of proxy servers…what are you a wanna be chinese hackboy…biometrics…you make video games, and bad ones too. Lincoln was right. Send the freedmen back to Africa because they can never culturally merge with the Western European American society.

  • jhfjh

    but of course we should pass more gun control laws because as soon as you don’t everyone will start killing eachother – you are a hypocritical id1ot

  • rufus levin

    maybe I will just hack your address and call up your little boss and tell him you are sending copywrite product stuff to China off his servers. I was an IT executive before you were a sperm in your daddy’s sack. I have hired and fired more “computer science” boy wonder techies than you have ever met…including at the job fair where you got hired as a temp when no one wanted a U of Phoenix MA “genius”. Pump your ego, boy, you still a boy.

  • wowzers

    You have “homies” that travel the world beating up people who insult you online? That sounds so impressive. You must be incredibly wealthy. It certainly isn’t a lie.

  • jshell

    @jhfjh: uh actually..no, that’s not what I believe at all…. I never mentioned passing gun control laws… I don’t know where you got that???

    We already have one, it’s called the 2nd Amendment, and I don’t see a need for any more.

  • Tyrone Unhahawa

    Yes, this will help stomp out the Internet Tough Guy phenomenon that has taken hold the last 15 years. So stupid fools like you and Rufus can no longer count on internet anonymity to spew your BS

  • Mike Notsaying

    give up your rights its for the kidddds

  • Tyrone Unhahawa

    The funny thing is, you have no idea how to set up a proxy for yourself. LOL you probably really on the CIA free proxies that are out there for suckers like yourself to basically incriminate themselves of whatever they are trying to hide by using the gov’ts proxy, just for fools like you.

    Lets me honest, you have no idea how to hide yourself. You are using your ISP and your ISP’s DNS boxes like the other 99.99% of loser out there and I hate ot break it to you, but you are quite easily found.

  • http://disturbingnews.wordpress.com/2011/12/02/father-of-the-year-hotboxes-car-with-2-year-old-son-inside/ Father of the Year ‘Hotboxes’ Car with 2-Year-Old Son Inside « Retch's Disturbing News!

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  • JDW

    The kid was overheard by officers saying “sweet fishbowl, pop!”

  • wowzers

    Hey tyrone, you have the most hateful mouth in here, buddy. Not feeling your pain, ok?. You want to mouth off and threaten strangers, you’re gonna get it thrown right back at you. And obviously, you LIED. Insulting those that busted you in your lie isn’t impressing anyone. Eat it.

  • Tyrone Unhahawa

    LOL who busted me? who’s lieing other than you to yourself?
    you are funny, keep posting, so I can get a good laugh please!

  • wowzers

    Explain your ability to track down our IP’s and then send your globe-trotting homies to beat us up.THAT LIE, tyrone.

  • Whitey Ford

    Dang dawg, this ride we jacked had a kid in it.

  • alan

    When I was a kid, parents would smoke while pregnant. My parents use to smoke pot in the house while we were home. It was no big deal. As a matter of fact, I think I slept great and when I woke in the m orning, I ate two breakfasts I was so hungry:)

  • Tyrone Unhahawa

    the first part, sure. a lot of sites that don’t have the money to buy the latest and greatest you web page software with known holes/flaws in it. especially bad is when they include the HTTP request header in the comments header in the source code!!!! Bascially displaying for all to see you IP if you simply open one of the included JS files where they tried to hide it.

    from there its a cakewalk. :) :) happy commenting

  • wowzers

    Then do it. Find me. Liar.

    And now explain the globe-trotting homies. Liar.

  • Roddy Piper

    I saw the picture of the accused – GUILTY!

  • David.vs.Goliath

    What are you talking about Perry D? Just a few links up from this one the headline said “FALL: Ex-sheriff held in jail named after him…” this article was about a WHITE ex-sheriff who got busted for offering meth for sex to men… at any rate both are in jail and both got what what coming to them, no racism here. http://www.drudgereport.com/

  • JEN

    Curious to know, why would you say that??

  • wowzers

    Oh I insist because you can’t and you know it.

  • rufus levin

    no sweat wowzer…I just turned his threat over to the Homeland Security Crowd, who will get state to cancel his work visa and send his butt back to Nigeria where he can dodge machetes while he send emails out for Bank Scams with his REAL HOMMIEs. See, he is too ignorant to understand how REAL American Blacks talk and what language they use, as well as his miserable grammar gave his foreign non-citizen fraudulent boasting up easily. He is just another tech for hire on a government grant project that is going to get cancelled when Congress kills the NIH budget this month.

    He doesn’t know that http language is old stuff, and his web design comment is absurd and shallow. He is way out of his league threatening on an open blog, and he done shat in his mess kit….maybe he will be home for Christmas whith the tutus and woggies.

  • Eric Long

    Cause its racist, right genius?

  • Frank

    Hotboxing is when you leave child in the car in extreme heat, why they’re referring to the term in this incident is beyond me but the kid will probably probably end up smoking weed if anything.

  • sanfordsports

    It’s called ‘Clambakeing’ not hotboxing. Named after a couple of stoners who lit up in a car with the windows sealed in front of the Clambake Restaurant in Pine Point, Maine back in the 80s. In their defense, it was winter, it was extremely cold out and probably below zero degrees, and the car heater was broke. So to keep warm, they kept the bowl fires burning and the process was known forevermore as Clambakeing.

  • Matt Filipczuk

    Because he is black.

  • Matt Filipczuk

    My dads smoked for 45 years, and his lungs are fine. Such propaganda you spew.

  • Jack Harer

    You say that while the other night while high as hell i was driving and watched a women wreck off a ditch, her car was vertical and suspended in the trees, me and my stoned friend, who must have been so incompetent, pulled the MOTHER AND HER 10 month old BABY out of the car before the Ambulance got there. So maybe she is thankful that i was ‘high behind the wheel that night.” I don’t agree with smoking in front of kids, but i will never say you can’t do it. Its a million times safer than any beer could ever be and doesn’t make you a fat pig.

  • Kini AlohaGuy

    If you’ve ever wondered why so many children are without fathers, now you know.

  • MoreConcerned

    Lol yeah because with Marijuana illegal, there is no one smoking.

    That’s some serious neocon logic right there. And it is neocon logic because real conservatives believe in freedom.

    Here, let me tell you some truth here.

    Because you support prohibition, you support drug cartels. Because guess who has the market cornered right now with hyper inflated prices?

    My question to you is, why do you support drug cartels?

  • MoreConcerned

    Don’t worry about it Tyrone, this place has been invaded by freedom hating neocons. They don’t believe in laws or our Constitution so they want to legislate morality. It’s a sick world they live in.

  • Other Frank

    Because words can have more than one meaning, the other, as the article states, is smoking marijuana in a small enclosed space, like a car for example.

  • Britt

    That’s a wonderful story! Perfect for the holidays, thanks for sharing.

  • Duke

    NAPA know-how….NAPA know-how….N-N-N-N-NAPA know-how….LOL

  • Nick Renesis

    And the kid was aking daddy for the Goldfish cause all of a sudden he got real hungry.

  • RLABruce

    Because he is a thug.

  • nic

    hot boxing -
    yes those were the good old days
    poor child it should of been a deserving smoker taking in that goodness
    or well

  • Matt Filipczuk

    I love how this black living with his grandma proves every stereotype correct. He claims he beez edumacated yet can’t even use basic english. Just because you can google how to hack, doesn’t make you intimidating. You don’t have thugs who spend money traveling to other states to attack people. You say you know how to find exploits huh? Do you even know what kind of site this is Tyrone? Go away script kiddie. No one is impressed with your googling skills. I doubt you even know what a POC is. Haha

  • Bob

    Wow, my old Junior College history professor said the same thing! Go figure….

  • jawnee

    Its time to require iq tests before anyone is allowed to have a child.You will be able to have 5 ,or no children based on your iq-This man would be aloowed to have minus 2 children.

    God help the children being destroyed by the black famiily,or lack there of!!

  • Sam

    multiple words can be used to describe the same definition, ie: paradox and oxymoron. Coincidentally: you are correct and incorrect at the same time. Please refer to first sentence.

    Interesting story though.

  • Ralph Malph

    Ever considered that there might be two names for that particular activity? My friends and I always called it hotboxing back in high school… uhh, when we were talking about other people doing it. Yes, that’s right.

  • Brian B

    It is also called hotboxing. I’ve heard it used that various times in Oregon, Florida, and California. Clambakeing is likely a regional slang term for hotboxing.

  • BeBAD.us

    My mommas would chase me around the block with a coat hanger when I got home from day school.

    I STOPPED one day and turned around and SCREAMED – MOM IT’S TOO LATE FOR AN ABORTION!

    tense-nervous.com
    gigmasters.com/comedian/TenseNervous

  • Steve

    Can they prove, by a preponderance of the evidence, that harm was done? Doubt it!
    Patent #6630507
    The truth shall set you free.

  • Steven Welch

    Can the state, by a preponderance of evidence, prove damages or loss?
    Patent #6630507
    The truth shall set you free.

  • LaVonte d’Ashawn Jackson IV

    Gosh, I’m so surprised he’s black.

  • Gordon Gunn

    Those same nice government folk will mandate that children are vaccinated with vaccines proven to be much more dangerous than hemp.
    No one has ever died from hemp poisoning, yet look at the autism rate – it’s 1-in-60 kids these last 10 years. The CDC knows this, and it can be verifed by anyone intersted in the truth.
    Anyone check into the accusations that the vaccines ordered by Perry, in Texas, killed several teenagers? It’s true.
    Charge the guy for driving while intoxicated, impound the car, and have somebody bail him out.

  • NCLibertyLover

    I am pretty sure that child was in no danger. Just another example of our nanny state tyrannical gubmint taking charge. Stupid waste of time for our law enforcement. Get real. The gubmin will prolly take the kid and put him on a truly dangerous psychotropic drug… That’s the way they roll…

  • trev

    A marijuana sauna!

  • Mr. Progressive

    Pot smoke is harmless. Only tobacco smoke can kill people

  • http://www.greenvilledragnet.com/victimless-crime-file-father-and-his-medical-marijuana-user-friend-hotbox-toddler/ Victimless Crime File: Father and his “Medical” Marijuana User Friend Hotbox Toddler : Greenville Dragnet

    [...] front of the cops by the way. But hey, legalized weed means toddlers would be safer with drug users, right? SACRAMENTO (CBS13) – A man accused of endangering his child by allowing him to remain inside a [...]

  • Mike

    Just about everything you said in your email is incorrect. There is no evidence vaccinations cause autism (correlation does not equal causation). The diseases that immunization prevents/eradicates are so harmful to a society, it is criminal that people like you drive fear into others from getting these important shots.

    Also, “hemp” is the non-TLC containing product made from marijuana, and has nothing to do with this story. You thus can’t get “hemp poisoning.” I agree that TLC poisoning is rare if not impossible, but the truly informed legalize it folks don’t need an ill-informed advocate like you, so please stop commenting on it.

  • Mikey

    @ Matt

    Your “Propaganda” is called fact by everyone else.

    http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_statistics/fact_sheets/fast_facts/

  • Mikey

    Where is the Constitution does is say that smoking pot is a right? I’m sure it’s right next to the clause that says abortion is one too….

  • Andrew P.

    Yes they are, just as long as the keys aren’t in the ignition. There is a difference, however slight.

  • Andrew P.

    @Jack “Harer”: FYI, I think you are trying to refer to Jack Herer. Could be a typo, I know, but in case it wasn’t I thought I’d let you know.

  • Tom

    Sounds like law enforcement and the so-called justice system once again making mountains out of molehills. If pot were legal and regulated, as it should be, these guys could be busted for smoking while driving, just like driving with an open container in the car is illegal now. The fact that a kid is present isn’t the real issue and the contact high the kid would be getting would probably have little more effect on his metabolism or mental state than from alcohol fumes if his parents were drinking in a confined space with the kid present.

  • Whitey

    I’ll bet JC stands for something like Julius Charles… and, of course, he’ll be white.

  • hi

    Cleary a case of racism. Must be good to be whit. Whitey smoking all avoer the place like it aint nothin.

  • http://wishididntknow.com/2011/12/02/man-arrested-for-hotboxing-smoking-marijuana-inside-car-with-his-two-year-old-in-backseat/ Man Arrested For ‘Hotboxing’ – Smoking Marijuana Inside Car – With His TWO-YEAR-OLD In Backseat

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  • Dave Classick

    Why the hell didnt the cops just take a picture or video of the car as proof… cased closed, no argument! jesus., another reason to outfit all cops with video cameras.

  • Jimmy Limo

    Winston, it’s a-holes like you that make me embarrassed to be white…

  • teaj

    its you who has a superiority complex. didn’t get that from anybody else in these comments. sounds like you are struggling with what you do tho. perhaps you could try donating to charity that usually makes people like you feel better about yourselves.

  • teaj

    you think this brother wants that kid? he’d give the kid away if he could.

  • Ray Porteous

    Question???? – Would you consider drinking and driving with a child in the back seat Endangerment?

    One comment was made about pot not killing anybody in the entire history. Come on, operating vehicles while stoned has certainly caused accidents and deaths. This should be a drug to be used while kicking back, not while driving a 3000 pound vehicle at speeds traveling 90 feet per second.

    Otherwise, these guys were somewhat stupid doing this in public as they were. Seems they should have more common sense than to smoke pot, drive a car, and not know where the cops are as they are partying.

  • Mike Bergstein

    He’s an obvious loser and a poor excuse for a parent. I am sorry for his family. What else could he have been doing except for hotboxing? This is a good argument for losing custody of children or having them taken by CPS.

  • Gene Rossi

    Idiots come in all colors. . . . .all sizes . . . all sexes . . . .don’t they ?

  • David Black

    Tom: your comment about the effects of second hand smoke on children is proof that you have NO CLUE and hopefully, you aren’t a parent.

  • phil

    …and you graduated as a Pediatrician…from what medical school? You sir, are an idiot. Please get a vasectomy…quickly.

  • phil

    …You “make more money.” You…”are probably more intelligent..” You…. B lyin. Now pull up your pants. put down the pipe, and go back into the back door of Burger King. The buzzer on the fry machine just went off. Get back to work.

  • kilo8

    alcohol fumes??? Really…. lmfao

  • LORD FARQUAR

    I FAIL TO SEE WHERE A HEATED CUBICAL INSTRUMENT OF ANY SORT WAS INVOLVED IN THIS CASE. FREE J.C.

  • Sebastian

    What? You’ve never heard of “snot-boxing” before?

  • non

    I call it a Colombian sauna

  • mark

    Are you kidding me? The REAL issue is the Knucklehead “father” who “loves” his son and oh also his two daughters allowing the dope to be near his kids. Lets not get into the fact that he was violating probation and the babies had different mamas.I’m sure that won’t have any affect on the kids either Tom.

  • Mary Jane Buds

    “…Monroe said he loves his son…”

    Which is why he was hotboxing the White Widow and not the MIds.

  • http://www.fastnews.tv/?p=122259 COPS: Man fills car with pot smoke — with 2-year-old in back seat! | Breaking News

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  • Da Troot

    Tom, the real issue is that we can’t really believe what policemen report about this type of crime anymore. They’re all desperately trying to justify their budgets.

  • Fairshare2

    He should never be allowed in the company of small children ever sgsin. Idiota!

  • Fairshare2

    I doubt this one!

  • DD

    “car that was allegedly so thick with smoke that officers couldn’t immediately see the two-year-old boy in the back seat.”

    This is all i had to read to see this story was a crock and its the typical blown out of proportion by police to grab attention. There is no way the smoke was that thick if they were driving (as the article claims they were), even if they were parked they would have to be smoking for 45 min straight with absolutely no air flow in the car to get smoke that thick! Now that doesn’t make what the guy was doing right by any means and i am not defending him, but its just more proof the police are lairs trying to get the public up in arms over pot! Non story here, should have never even made it in the news

  • Fairshare2

    @Adabise OfSenjen…let me guess! why you advertising your freaking website chimpout.com? Hopefully no one on this blog is stupid enough to try it. Go get your victims somewhere else. Gee!

  • Daisy

    “The fact that a kid is present isn’t the real issue …”

    Oh, the things that pot-heads say …

  • Gordon Campbell

    Matt ! Loosen your thong,honey.

  • John Smith

    Is that any worse than a dad who goes out to pick up more beer with his two year old son in the backseat? I love how with each opportunity, bureaucrats lump marijuana in with any crime they use for their failed drug policys.

  • geronimo

    I say hang him. I’ve never been in a car full of pot smoke, but I survived thousands of rides in cars–buses and airplanes, too–full of tobacco smoke. Doesn’t matter what kind of smoke it is–it ought to be a hanging offense.

  • Max

    Seriously? The child has no ability to say he doesn’t want to get high. A contact high? To get a child drunk one would have to make them drink alcohol. That would be child abuse. What is the difference here? I think pot shoulc be legalized despite the fact that I don’t like it myself. You are being very unreasonable in your comparison. Actually, you are being extraordinarily stupid in you comparison with “alcohol fumes”. Also, are you a doctor? I seriously doubt it based on the idiotic nature of your comment. Do you know the effect of mind altering substances on a two year old? I don’t. What I do know is that any normal human being would not get their two year old drunk or high.

  • fishfinder911

    That dad has allot to learn!

    A kids sucking up pot smoke is ok? is he freaking still high?

  • Jonny Kush

    Actually David, cannabis has never killed a single human being in the history of human beings, at least not in this Universe. Cigarette smoke is toxic, tobacco is radioactive, it’s lethal. Alcohol is lethal. Pharma drugs that are all the rage these days are also LETHAL. Cannabis is NON-LETHAL. DING DING DING, we have a WINNER, and it’s not David Black…it’s…..THE TRUTH! THE TRUTH WINS!!! NON-LETHAL! you will never find a death directly attributed to cannabis, ever. Hemp will save the world, and could power the world with 1/5 the pollution. Natural, non-toxic, non-lethal, renewable, sustainable….NATURE. Stop being dumb. Alcohol and pharma kill brain cells, cannabis grows them. P.S. That child has Cannabinoid Receptors in his brain, by nature, as you do, as i do, as we ALL do. Use them….the universe doesn’t make mistakes. Thank you, David.

  • Jamal

    In front of whom are you “embarrassed to be white”?

  • Jonny Kush

    You people are lame. Cannabis has never killed anyone, ever, in the history of time. And humans, even children, have Cannabinoid Receptors in their brains. You people are disillusioned and mislead, not educated with proper curriculum and facts. Cannabis is non-lethal, and it’s meant for humans to use as a natural medicine,that’s why you have cannabinoid receptors in your brain. Dummies. Dont drink some more beer, Dummies. Pop some pharma pills, Dummies. I’ll stick with the NON-LETHAL vice, thank you. Dummies.

  • Tim Gray

    He is black, watch the video

  • Karl Magnus

    “Second hand smoke” is a myth and quite harmless – UNLESS a young child is exposed to marijuana smoke in a small enclosed area.
    A study conducted in the late 70s (1980?) called “Tiny Dopers” found a correlation between well-behaved kids and the parents smoking pot in the house vs. kids whose parents didn’t smoke pot. The difference was striking.
    Marijuana should be legalized for adults, period.
    However, smoking pot in front of little kids is negligence and perhaps abuse.

    ~(Ä)~

  • Michael W Collins II

    David… you are a moron…

    We all know that second hand smoke can be dangerous to children, adults, pets, etc… Regardless, people have been smoking cigarettes in their cars for DECADES. Have you ever heard of a cigarette smoker charged for “hot boxing” a child, for merely smoking in the car? Of course you haven’t. This had nothing to do with second hand smoke. This is a case where the police did what the police do. They wanted to punish this guy for having weed. Once they realized that the weed was possessed lawfully, they pretended they were concerned about the child to provide themselves an excuse to punish him for the weed (while claiming it was to protect the child). The police use straw-men tactics to crack down on the people like you or I use food to crack down on hunger.

    I’m sorry… the state has no business whatsoever telling this guy what he should and shouldn’t do in the presence of his children. The child is his–not the government’s–and he can raise the child how he sees fit.

  • Dr Glickman

    The only condition that medical marijuana patients in California suffer from is “degeneritive brain disorder”. My neighbor (another mm patient) converts his rented garage into a Led Zepplin concert 3 times a week. When confronted about his pot use he flies into a bipolar rage. The Medical Marijuana Law is an absolute joke. It has atracted only the criminals and psychos. Neighborhood property values take another hit to accomodate these addle-brained creeps. The law needs much tighter regulation as to who really qualifies for a sched 1 narcotic – or be repealed.

  • Regulas

    Agree, we have way too many cops, state police, park police, city police, university police, sheriff and so on. I am not even tapping in on all the different FED pigs we have.

  • Bilford Rielly

    One more Bo ‘The Muslim Turd’ supporters showing off his intelligence.

  • fred

    $20 says his t-short says obama 2012!

  • Tam

    He probably calls his car “The Bongmobile.”

  • LIVE-BY-THE-LAW

    Big Deal.

    Pot is good for you, AND YOUR BABY.
    Pot cures cancer.
    Pot cures herpes.
    Disease is caused by stress, and nothing stops stress like POT.

    Pot is God’s gift to the world of animals and men.
    You have pot receptors in your brain by God’s design.
    MARIJUANA MEDICAL INFO dot COM

    AND ALSO

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    1. Obey the written law.
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    3. Ignorance of the law is no excuse.

  • Omega 13

    I’m not going to take that bet.

  • OLJingoist

    The kid in the backseat actually bought the pot.

  • jnsesq

    And whateva. Then be tannin’ yo ass. No whut ah’m sayin’?

  • Mike

    come one whats a lil contact… mary jay has cancer preventing properties… if anything he should be given a pat on the back by the child’s physician!……………………..and i’m joking of course

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  • prutt

    exactly!! it would be a slap on the wrist if it was tobacco smoke that kills 400,000 a year
    i feel really sorry for this guy.
    most braindead parents have no problem injecting there kids with autism/cancer linked vaccines but fully freakout when they hear the word “pot” .

  • Cindi Beattie

    Why do people like that reproduce?

  • Tom

    A disgrace to his race!

  • Tom

    Dear jnsesq,
    12 years of school and still unable to speak or write english, Hmmmm!

  • TLee

    New Headline = Corporations fill atmosphere with poisonous gases with children all over earth! No-one gives a damn about that, why should we care what one father does with his child in the car? Is it illegal / immoral to fill a car with cigar smoke with a two year old in it? Is it illegal / immoral to fill the earths atmosphere with poisonous gas? Is it illegal to release radiation in Fukushima, there were a few children in the neighborhood there. Get over your “drug war” mentality and realize it for the deception it is.

  • SamIAm

    Moron druggie. Take a bath. Get job. Visualize it.

  • SamIAm

    Deflection is no way to go through life. If you actually believe that smoking pot in a car with a 2 year old is OK, you should not be allowed to EVER reproduce.

  • Fred

    From a purely medical standpoint, there was no danger of any harm coming to the kid as a result of breathing the smoke.

  • Fred

    The same is true of alcohol. Are you in favor of outlawing alcohol?

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    [...] From CBS: “SACRAMENTO (CBS13) – A man accused of endangering his child by allowing him to remain [...]

  • Wee Weed Up

    Honest officer it was only one toke. And only by my friend, not me.

  • U R dumbarse

    Pot cures intelligence.

  • kenneth

    The media is working for the corrupt corporations and gov’t. It is an herb. It has NEVER killed anyone ever in history. But the tobacco and alcohol and pharma lobby bought off all politicians. Idiocracy.

  • Freaking Idiot Potheads

    Yeah right. And you can drink vodka if the keys aren’t in the igniton as well, right dope boy?

  • Noamsayn?

    I can just hear Monroe pleading to the cops —-

    ‘But ah din do nuffins. U po-leese be rayciss an sheeeit.’

  • Angela Penton

    a nurse i know that works with addiction patients said that pot destroys more of the brain than any other drug. Im sure the terminology I used is incorrect, but pot is actually very bad, even though we culturally view it as safe.

  • brookly red

    because we PAY them to

  • HomoVastans

    Your terminology ain’t the only thing incorrect. Culturally viewed as safe? What planet are you from?

  • jnsesq

    But utterly fluent in ebonics. You down wiff dat, yo?

  • Purple Haze

    Nothing like driving around the City of Sacramento while smoking a Hooter with your kid in the back seat…..

    Fresno has more class than our City……………

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  • conway

    my car hotboxes fine as I’m speeding down I-45 with license number jz4-er5

  • TeaRunner

    Who cares? Just the ignorant.

    Wouldn’t have hurt the kid at all.

    Go back to your Big Mac and fries.

  • Diego Roswell

    Angela – The key to the fallacy of your statement is that the nurse “works with addiction patients”. The “recovery” from drugs and alcohol is a cottage industry supported by the courts and law enforcement. Nothing that goes on inside “recovery” institutions is regulated or even scrutinized by any federal or state agencies for facts or effectiveness. Nothing that these “professionals (high school grads with former addictions) say is ever debated or discussed. I will debate this. Marijuana does not “destroy” any part of the body. Carbon monoxide does, when any incomplete combustion (smoke) is inhaled. This can be remedied by simply NOT smoking cannabis, but rather ingesting it or inhaling the vapors. Fear is that which you do not understand.

  • Diego Roswell

    Fred, you are an ignorant a$$. Obama has proven himself an enemy of the medical cannabis community in California by lying to the property owners that allow cannabis shops to rent from them and raiding them and shutting them down, despite campaign promises to the contrary. The people of California that are for states rights, liberty and freedom of choice, and the right to purchase safe doctor prescribed medical grade cannabis are not happy with Mr. Obama and his lying hypocritical ways. We do not support his re – election.

  • Jim in Saigon

    The man should have been arrested for DUI and reckless child endangerment. For all I know , marijuana may be a medical panacea as many claim. But its use belongs at home, not in a automobile.

  • cheech

    couldve been worse, couldve been tobacco.

  • Tim

    Several studies out of England this past year claimed that regular pot smokers were 50 times more likely to develop schizophrenia and smoking it just once turn ones teen years made one 4 times more likely to develop schizophrenia than someone who has never smoked pot. given how THC targets the brains receptors and slows down response time within the brain causing paranoa it certainly seems plausable. The big question is with so many drugs already developed for anxiety and pain why should pot be legalized? Everyone has heard of the “glaucoma patients” that get their medical card just to get high. Why would we want to expose our kids to this drug under the guise that it is a safe “medication”. Makes no sense to me especially given that there r so many other ways to catch a buzz. Oh, and for all you that claim that pot has never killed anyone you should really learn how to read a death certificate. Marijuana intoxication may not kill you but elevated heart rate due to panic has killed millions.

  • Banished Jester

    I am sure the child was quite happy with whatever the dad was doing. In fact the marijuana probably made the child more docile and less disruptive to the driver. Now that we have the internet at our disposal we have immediate access to the research on cannabis. Any informed person knows very well that the pot smoke did no harm to the child. READ!

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    [...] Monroe was arrested on charges of child abuse and probation violation and is being held on $82,000 bond. The boy’s mother has taken custody of the child. Via cbslocal [...]

  • SamIAm

    OK, now there are two of you. Freddie, would you like me to explain the deleterious effects of combustion by-products or are you already too high to “dig it”? Good grief.

  • JIM

    Lets see, you take a drug test and flunk, they tell you second hand pot smoke won’t affect you and your test. Man smoking pot in the car and his kid gets high. Pop goes to jail. (executioner if it were me) I JUST WANT TO KNOW WHO THE HELL IS LIEING!

  • mikey66

    Tell me why, exactly, the child’s life would be in danger from inhaling pot smoke. I’m serious? Is it any worse than cigarette smoke?

  • mikey66

    Wonder why the cops had to exaggerate though? Well….we don’t really wonder why, do we? We all know they will lie to put people behind bars, or even lie to send them to the gas chamber, right? Does anyone dispute that police have lied and people have been killed because of it? Fact. So, the guy is a nobody and the cops get a lump in their pants throwing their weight around. Smoke so thick that they couldn’t see the back seat????LOL!!!! That’s a good one. ….. Unless it’s someone with power who they are afraid of, like David Beckham or some other sissy with a lot of money.

  • mikey66

    I’ll bet the cop saw the hot dog on the dashboard, as well.

  • Jim Dea

    Did you ever try to fill a car with smoke like that described? “the car was so filled with smoke, the officer at first, didn’t even see the child”. ??? When I was a kid, a buch of us TRIED as hard as we could to create just the type of situation this cop exaggerated and were disappointed at the results. We had 2 bongs and 4 joints going at once and could only seem to produce what looked like a light fog. We wanted to see if we could replicate the scene from Fast Times at Ridgemont High when Jeff Spicolli stumbled out of a van that was pouring smoke from it’s interior. We failed at it and that is why I think maybe the cop SMELLED pot and in order to make an arrest, exaggerated about the smoke. Just my opinion.

  • Hotbox professional

    I’ve hotboxed plenty of times. It’s impossible to get it all smoky like a Cheech and Chong movie. Trust me, I’ve tried.

    The officer is obviously lying about not being able to see a person through the smoke. It’s simply ridiculous. Too many movies for this moron.

    That being said, why smoke pot around a minor? It time to grow up!

    Now… This pot smoker is in jail on an $85,000 bond.
    MEANWHILE…
    Jerry Sandusky ( the Penn State child rapist) is roaming free and lives on property adjoining an elementary school.

  • Hollister

    You can tell what time Drudge linked this article. Just look and see when all the racist remarks started.

  • KidPsych

    The fact that you have to ask that makes me wonder just how many bong hits you’ve had today. Yes, it is potentially worse for a two-year-old than cigarette smoke because it can impact neural development. Being impaired as an adult is not great, as a toddler it could have long-term consequences. It is a wildly ignorant thing to do.

  • .

    Kill him.

  • Quad4man

    LET ME GET THIS STRAGHT!!! All of you pro pot smokers are arguing there IS an acceptable amount of pot smoke in a car with a child! Will all of you please start listening to your own arguments PLEASE! There us no acceptable amount of drugs around a child period. We need to protect children at all times, not set acceptable levels of child endangerment to protect pro pot agendas.

  • Ryan

    Where is the journal citation for this claim? How many bong-tokes have you taken I wonder? Cannabis has not been shown to negatively impact neural development in any way. Get real, get your facts straight!

  • NowSwimback

    Gee how did I know it was going to be a Negro

  • http://inalienablewrights.wordpress.com inalienablewrights

    But vaccinating them, letting them drink fluoridated water. food with MSG, food with aspartame, HFCS with mercury residue is OK in Amerika?

    Amerikans are the dumbest most gullabe people on the planet.

  • Classy B

    You know it really sickens me to read about all the negativity in this space in which we live all the racisit comments all the negative people who think that its ok to smoke drugs around children. And all the cops who pull this big exagerated stunt for more publicity !!!!wow it makes the few good cops look bad !!!!!!!!!! and to hell with all the rest of you morons,

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  • that guy.

    its bud… not crack damn…

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