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The owner of a medical marijuana service was busted for a second time this year after visiting the Alaska State Trooper Post in Palmer while free on bail from felony marijuana charges. Troopers say 43-year-old Adrienne L. Schenfele was leaving the parking lot of the Palmer cop shop after attempting to retrieve property. Schenfele was driving a BMW sedan and a trooper stopped her for failing to use a turn signal and driving onto the street without stopping.
Troopers say Schenfele, who already faces 13 felonies for marijuana offenses stemming from a bust in April, had about 9.5 lbs of marijuana products, almost $15,000 in cash and a gun inside the BMW. Troopers say marijuana brownies, cookies, hashish oil and gel capsules–all containing THC– were inside the car and allege all of the products were intended for sale.
Schenfele is the owner of Sugar Green, a company with a web site offering to deliver marijuana products to patients who are registered with the state under Alaska's medical marijuana law. In 1998, Alaska became one of the first states to pass a medical marijuana law, and voters decriminalized weed for people with a doctor's prescription. However, in the years since the law passed, the state has done little to allow patients to legally obtain the drug. The law, as passed in 1998, limits patients to one ounce or less. It also limits patients to six live plants, only three of which can be flowering. The law allows a designated caregiver to grow marijuana on behalf of a patient, but caregivers and patients are prohibited from selling the drug. They are allowed to transport it only if it remains in sealed containers and is not displayed in public.
Schenfele has not returned calls when messages were left with Sugar Green. Her defense attorney, Lance Wells of Anchorage, declined to comment and told the Press earlier this year that he was advising his client not to talk with news media. Wells says the trial date for Schenfele's first case looks to be in September. The attorney said he has not seen any details from last week's bust, but did assist Schenfele with bail arrangements.
Sugar Green describes itself as a warehousing and delivery service on its state of Alaska business license. The company also advertises online, although its web presence can fairly be described as Spartan, falling somewhat short of an actual website.
Still, this week a menu was available online, titled "Sugar Green Mail In Order Form." Options include "sweet selections" such as a triple chocolate brownie, peanut butter chocolate brownie and three kinds of cookies (all are $10). The Sugar Green menu also boasts something called a Dragon Dew Dropper ($50 each) and 28 flavors of ice cream ($10 per serving) delivered in two, five and 10-serving packages. Vanilla, strawberry and apple cinnamon ice cream can be ordered in "triple dose" ($35 and $80 "donation" sizes), which presumably means those flavors are available with three times the normal dose of hash oil.
The order form says payment can be mailed to a P.O. box in Wasilla, but that Sugar Green's delivery is not through the mail. The text also stops short of claiming the products are for sale, leaning on words such as "donations" and "fees" much of the time. "Prices are expenses based on packaging and delivering or minimal donation," the menu says. Another disclaimer reads: "In few cases we may contact you with an additional fee if delivery is out of our normal route. Delivery requires 10 servings or more."
Schenfele was first busted on April 4 while speeding along the Parks Highway through Willow in a Dodge pickup truck. The trooper who stopped her, Sergeant David Herrell, smelled marijuana and asked about it. Troopers have never alleged Schenfele was anything but cooperative during either of her two busts.
Herrell's affidavit says Schenfele presented her own medical marijuana card during the stop. She then turned over Ziploc bags and Tupperware containers of marijuana, a scale and some empty bags marked "1/8," which would become evidence in the case against her. Schenfele told the trooper she runs Sugar Green, and the company makes marijuana butter and delivers marijuana to people with medical marijuana cards. "[Schenfele said] she takes the marijuana and makes it into butter to treat her patients that (sic) are also medical marijuana card holders," Herrell wrote in his affidavit.
Herrell seized 11 ounces of weed and some hash oil. Troopers then got search warrants and raided two properties–a home in Anchorage and a property in Talkeetna–and seized a half-gallon of hash oil, $20,000 worth of growing equipment and 87 marijuana plants.
The April bust swelled into an indictment for 13 felony charges. State prosecutors have yet to get a grand jury indictment out of last week's bust, but troopers initially charged Schenfele with two felony-level marijuana charges and one felony for weapons misconduct. In both cases, illegal manufacturing and distribution of marijuana are at the heart of the trooper's charges.
Sugar Green's "normal route" as described on its order form seems to include communities from Anchorage to Talkeetna along the Parks Highway, but the company has also sought delivery drivers for routes around the state. Sugar Green earlier this year posted a help-wanted ad on the classifieds site Alaska's List, seeking "AKmmj" delivery drivers. It said: "Sugar Green Delivery Services are casually looking for delivery drivers," and listed communities from Homer to Fairbanks and even towns off the road system such as King Salmon and Bethel. (Quick expansion seems to have been central to Sugar Green's aspirations.)
The ad posted on Alaska's List is no longer online. Mike Baker, an Alaska's List webmaster, said in an email the site's ads are paid in advance and routinely expire when the pre-paid schedule ends. He would not comment about Sugar Green specifically, citing an Alaska's List privacy policy. Baker is widely reported in various news media as the founder of Alaska's List, and he told the Press that he likely would not run an advertisement for marijuana services if he believed the activities were illegal.
"I'm not an attorney, but it would seem to me that delivery of medical marijuana by anyone other than a licensed pharmacist would be unlawful in the State of Alaska, and if anyone were to place such an ad here, I don't think I would run it," Baker said. He added that Alaska's List would "gladly" host ads that "simply referred patients to doctors" or otherwise helped patients get the drug legally.
"We would definitely be willing to advertise that type of service in our Health & Medical category," Baker said. "Alaska's List supports the lawful use of medical marijuana."
News Hawk- Truth Seeker 420 MAGAZINE ®
Source: anchoragepress.com
Author: Scott Chritiansen
Contact: editor@anchoragepress.com
Website: Medical marijuana provider busted again - Anchorage Press: Anchorage Press News
Troopers say Schenfele, who already faces 13 felonies for marijuana offenses stemming from a bust in April, had about 9.5 lbs of marijuana products, almost $15,000 in cash and a gun inside the BMW. Troopers say marijuana brownies, cookies, hashish oil and gel capsules–all containing THC– were inside the car and allege all of the products were intended for sale.
Schenfele is the owner of Sugar Green, a company with a web site offering to deliver marijuana products to patients who are registered with the state under Alaska's medical marijuana law. In 1998, Alaska became one of the first states to pass a medical marijuana law, and voters decriminalized weed for people with a doctor's prescription. However, in the years since the law passed, the state has done little to allow patients to legally obtain the drug. The law, as passed in 1998, limits patients to one ounce or less. It also limits patients to six live plants, only three of which can be flowering. The law allows a designated caregiver to grow marijuana on behalf of a patient, but caregivers and patients are prohibited from selling the drug. They are allowed to transport it only if it remains in sealed containers and is not displayed in public.
Schenfele has not returned calls when messages were left with Sugar Green. Her defense attorney, Lance Wells of Anchorage, declined to comment and told the Press earlier this year that he was advising his client not to talk with news media. Wells says the trial date for Schenfele's first case looks to be in September. The attorney said he has not seen any details from last week's bust, but did assist Schenfele with bail arrangements.
Sugar Green describes itself as a warehousing and delivery service on its state of Alaska business license. The company also advertises online, although its web presence can fairly be described as Spartan, falling somewhat short of an actual website.
Still, this week a menu was available online, titled "Sugar Green Mail In Order Form." Options include "sweet selections" such as a triple chocolate brownie, peanut butter chocolate brownie and three kinds of cookies (all are $10). The Sugar Green menu also boasts something called a Dragon Dew Dropper ($50 each) and 28 flavors of ice cream ($10 per serving) delivered in two, five and 10-serving packages. Vanilla, strawberry and apple cinnamon ice cream can be ordered in "triple dose" ($35 and $80 "donation" sizes), which presumably means those flavors are available with three times the normal dose of hash oil.
The order form says payment can be mailed to a P.O. box in Wasilla, but that Sugar Green's delivery is not through the mail. The text also stops short of claiming the products are for sale, leaning on words such as "donations" and "fees" much of the time. "Prices are expenses based on packaging and delivering or minimal donation," the menu says. Another disclaimer reads: "In few cases we may contact you with an additional fee if delivery is out of our normal route. Delivery requires 10 servings or more."
Schenfele was first busted on April 4 while speeding along the Parks Highway through Willow in a Dodge pickup truck. The trooper who stopped her, Sergeant David Herrell, smelled marijuana and asked about it. Troopers have never alleged Schenfele was anything but cooperative during either of her two busts.
Herrell's affidavit says Schenfele presented her own medical marijuana card during the stop. She then turned over Ziploc bags and Tupperware containers of marijuana, a scale and some empty bags marked "1/8," which would become evidence in the case against her. Schenfele told the trooper she runs Sugar Green, and the company makes marijuana butter and delivers marijuana to people with medical marijuana cards. "[Schenfele said] she takes the marijuana and makes it into butter to treat her patients that (sic) are also medical marijuana card holders," Herrell wrote in his affidavit.
Herrell seized 11 ounces of weed and some hash oil. Troopers then got search warrants and raided two properties–a home in Anchorage and a property in Talkeetna–and seized a half-gallon of hash oil, $20,000 worth of growing equipment and 87 marijuana plants.
The April bust swelled into an indictment for 13 felony charges. State prosecutors have yet to get a grand jury indictment out of last week's bust, but troopers initially charged Schenfele with two felony-level marijuana charges and one felony for weapons misconduct. In both cases, illegal manufacturing and distribution of marijuana are at the heart of the trooper's charges.
Sugar Green's "normal route" as described on its order form seems to include communities from Anchorage to Talkeetna along the Parks Highway, but the company has also sought delivery drivers for routes around the state. Sugar Green earlier this year posted a help-wanted ad on the classifieds site Alaska's List, seeking "AKmmj" delivery drivers. It said: "Sugar Green Delivery Services are casually looking for delivery drivers," and listed communities from Homer to Fairbanks and even towns off the road system such as King Salmon and Bethel. (Quick expansion seems to have been central to Sugar Green's aspirations.)
The ad posted on Alaska's List is no longer online. Mike Baker, an Alaska's List webmaster, said in an email the site's ads are paid in advance and routinely expire when the pre-paid schedule ends. He would not comment about Sugar Green specifically, citing an Alaska's List privacy policy. Baker is widely reported in various news media as the founder of Alaska's List, and he told the Press that he likely would not run an advertisement for marijuana services if he believed the activities were illegal.
"I'm not an attorney, but it would seem to me that delivery of medical marijuana by anyone other than a licensed pharmacist would be unlawful in the State of Alaska, and if anyone were to place such an ad here, I don't think I would run it," Baker said. He added that Alaska's List would "gladly" host ads that "simply referred patients to doctors" or otherwise helped patients get the drug legally.
"We would definitely be willing to advertise that type of service in our Health & Medical category," Baker said. "Alaska's List supports the lawful use of medical marijuana."
News Hawk- Truth Seeker 420 MAGAZINE ®
Source: anchoragepress.com
Author: Scott Chritiansen
Contact: editor@anchoragepress.com
Website: Medical marijuana provider busted again - Anchorage Press: Anchorage Press News
