Georgia deputies say they just intercepted a coast-to-coast marijuana run weighing nearly a ton. The Butts County Sheriff's Office reports seizing about 1,800 pounds of suspected black-market cannabis shipped from Sacramento and allegedly bound for Atlanta and Orlando. Officials did not disclose where the load was stopped on Tuesday, whether anyone was taken into custody, or what charges might follow, Fox News reports.
Sheriff Gary Long used the bust to argue that legalization hasn't erased illicit sales, saying traffickers can underprice legal dispensaries because they skip taxes, licenses, and testing. He warned that criminal networks are still moving product across state lines, noting that California permits recreational use while Georgia and Florida limit marijuana to certain medical purposes. "The black market isn't going away," he said.
Long urged Georgia lawmakers to study other states' experiences before rewriting the state's cannabis laws so they can "get it right the first time." Legislators "need to understand that you will never completely stop or eliminate the black market simply by legalizing and regulating marijuana," the sheriff said, per CBS News. "In fact, without addressing the criminal organizations behind the black market, you may only make that market stronger and more powerful and create black-market organizations in every state that legalizes it, just as we are seeing today."
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