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Acting on a tip police in Washington D.C. arrested veteran CBS Radio correspondent Howard Arenstein and his wife after discovering fully grown marijuana plants in his yard.
From the Washington Post
A veteran CBS Radio News correspondent was arrested early Saturday on drug charges after police searched his Northwest Washington home and found marijuana plants growing in his yard, police said.
Officers arrested Howard Arenstein, 60, and his wife, Orly Katz, 57, at their home in the 3500 block of T Street and charged them with possession with intent to distribute marijuana, police said.
According to his biography on CBS News’s Web site, Arenstein’s wife, known professionally as Orly Azoulay, is a Washington correspondent for Yedioth Ahronoth, one of Israel’s most widely circulated newspapers.
Police executed a search warrant at the home Saturday after a tip from an area resident, police said. A police report said cannabis was recovered from the home; officers said they found 11 full-grown marijuana plants and six 2-ounce bags of marijuana. Authorities consider each plant to equal a pound of marijuana.
According to CBS News’s Web site, Arenstein has supervised coverage and reported on such major Washington stories as the disputed 2000 presidential election; the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks; and the war in Iraq.
Neighbors in Georgetown, who asked not to be quoted by name, said the couple generally kept to themselves. Some said they heard the commotion or saw police at the home but didn’t know what was going on.
At the couple’s two-story, off-white brick house, all the blinds were drawn Saturday evening. No one answered the door, and a phone message left at the home was not immediately returned.
It will hard for Arenstein to deny any knowledge of the marijuana with 11 plants in his yard and another 12 oz. in baggies.
CBS Radio should fire Arenstein immediately if they want to limit the damage from his arrest and show that they are taking a string stand against illegal drugs. Anything less will be sheer folly.
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3 Comments for CBS Radio Goes to Pot
The same two faced lie a day liberal left-wing journalists who support gun control are the same bunch of reptiles who support the legalization of drugs typical liberal idiots
The only thing idiotic about today’s drug policy is that it glorifies drugs by forbidding it. There by making it incredibly profitable for gangs to finance their crime activities and life style. Legalize drugs and crush organized gangs that profit from it. All we have now are gangs running rampant shooting every one trying to protect their source of income from competition and rip-offs. Instead we are the ones that get ripped off trying stop an endless supply of contraband from the endless demand here in the US. Mean while no one has the guts to do one dam thing about the gang problem in the US except barricade them selves in their house with there guns and big screen TVs while everything goes to hell.
Mr. Arenstein should stand up for what he believes is the truth, after all he is a news correspondent. Millions of Americans already know that marijuana is essentially harmless. For eighty years law enforcement has been making false claims about its dangers and in that time all of them have been proven false. People from all walks of life use it as a safe alternative to alcohol, symptom relief, and simple enjoyment without the damaging effects that alcohol and prescription medicine have. Why should anyone apologize for ignoring an unjust law; that is how this country was built wasn’t it? If marijuana was legal than hemp would also be legal, something the cotton and lumber industry most likely would rather not see. Hemp cultivation is ten times more productive per acre than cotton and requires no chemical to grow. Paper made from hemp is of the best quality and does not require chemicals to make. Paper made from trees requires toxic chemicals that destroy the environment and destroys habitat. Instead we arrest our own citizens to protect big industry under the lie that marijuana is harmful or some how immoral.