January 3rd, 2013
04:57 PM ET
Frank Ocean cited for marijuana possessionFrank Ocean ended 2012 with a run-in with the law. On New Year's Eve, the singer was pulled over for speeding and ended up busted for alleged marijuana possession. The “channel ORANGE” singer was driving along Highway 395 in Mono County, California, when the California Highway Patrol spotted his black BMW speeding at around 4:30 in the afternoon, according to the Mono County Sheriff's Department. The officer noted a strong odor of marijuana when approaching the car, and discovered that Ocean was carrying a small bag of pot. The R&B star was cited for possession of marijuana, a misdemeanor, and was released on the spot. The incident has been passed on to the Mono County District Attorney’s Office for further review. Reps for Ocean tell CNN that they have no comment about the incident.
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Smoking pot is a victimless crime. Many judges are getting sick of prosecuting these crimes. Takes up court time, and the jails are full. Why? Who does it hurt? In our town, we just passed a law making it a fine, and that's it. Besides, I'd much rather have a house full of people smoking pot, than drinking any day. What's the worst thing that could happen, they raid my frig? If alcohol is legal, so should smoking pot.
I think he had just put one out smoking it in the car. Strong odor as cop approached the car. He should of gone to jail for DUI.
I never endorsed smoking it in your car. He was a dumbazz for doing that. I think what you do in the privacy of your own home is nobody's business, but your own.
America is safer now that this man has been penalized for possessing weed. Give me a break, drug laws are a joke. He wasn't hurting anybody.
There would have not been an issue had he not been smoking and driving.
leave frank alone...he has enough issues–
so the guy had pot in hiis car who cares.
Sounds like a good time for the "Friday" song.
(96.9 LAV FM, every Fri at 5pm)
go wash the smell off. next.
After reading through lots of these comments, I'm really saddened by what America has become. Gutless, weak, sniveling, rank and petty. You lazy jacka**es are lucky that you inherited a great country, because you sure don't contribute to it...you're simply takers. Parasites. The United States is weaker because of you.
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a black dude got caught with weed.... wow! thanks CNN for that insightful breaking news
Shocked the heck out of me!!
He should move to Colorado.
he should have bought rx weed license for 40 dollars in venice beach.
stop the madness
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use clorox for mouthwash
"Swim good" /his song- smoke good bwahaaahaaaa light it up now pass that $h!t
frank is not sure what time zone he's in right now does he?
a b-plug and weed...
Bad azz singer though fo real
probably not.
use a good strong detergent.
...told you he was cool.
Marijuana impinges on the central nervous system by attaching to brain's neurons and interfering with normal communication between the neurons. These nerves respond by altering their initial behavior. For example, if a nerve is suppose to assist one in retrieving short-term memory, cannabinoids receptors make them do the opposite. So if one has to remember what he did five minutes ago, after smoking a high dose of marijuana, he has trouble. Marijuana plant contains 400 chemicals and 60 of them are cannabinoids, which are psychoactive compounds that are produced inside the body after cannabis is metabolized or is extorted from the cannabis plant. Cannabinoids is an active ingredient of marijuana. The most psychoactive cannabinoids chemical in marijuana that has the biggest impact on the brain is tetrahydrocannibol, or THC. THC is the main active ingredient in marijuana because it affects the brain by binding to and activating specific receptors, known as cannabinoid receptors. "These receptors control memory, thought, concentration, time and depth, and coordinated movement. THC also affects the production, release or re-uptake (a regulating mechanism) of various neurotransmitters."(2) Neurotransmitters are chemical messenger molecules that carry signals between neurons. Some of these affects are personality disturbances, depression and chronic anxiety. Psychiatrists who treat schizophrenic patient advice them to not use this drug because marijuana can trigger severe mental disturbances and cause a relapse.
When one's memory is affected by high dose of marijuana, short-term memory is the first to be triggered. Marijuana's damage to short-term memory occurs because THC alters the way in which information is processed by the hippocampus, a brain area responsible for memory formation. "One region of the brain that contains a lot of THC receptors is the hippocampus, which processes memory."(3) Hippocampus is the part of the brain that is important for memory, learning, and the integration of sensory experiences with emotions and motivation. It also converts information into short-term memory. "Because it is a steroid, THC acts on the hippocampus and inhibits memory retrieval."(4) THC also alters the way in which sensory information is interpreted. "When THC attaches to receptors in the hippocampus, it weakness the short-term memory,"(5) and damages the nerve cells by creating structural changes to the hippocampus region of the brain. When a user has a high dose of marijuana, new information does not register into their brain and this may be lost from memory and they are not able to retrieve new information for more than a few minutes. There is also a decrease in the activity of nerve cells.
There are two types of memory behavior that is affected by marijuana, recognition memory and free cells. Recognition memory is the ability to recognize correct words. Users can usually recognize words that they previous saw before smoking but claim to recognize words that they did not previously see before smoking. This mistake is known as memory intrusions. Memory intrusions are also the consequence of THC affecting the free cell of the brain. "Marijuana disrupts the ability to freely recall words from a list that has been presented to an intoxicated subject."(6) For example, if a list of vocabulary words presented to the intoxicated subject and few minutes later, they have to recall the words that were on the list. The only words that they remember are the last group of words and not the words that are in the beginning of the list. This is an initiation that their memory storage has been affected. "The absence of an effect at short term delay times indicates that cannabinodis did not impair the ability to perform the basic task, but instead produce a selective learning and/or memory deficit."(7) I did a study with two college students (Student A and Student B) who both smoke marijuana every other week. This particular study was done an hour before, while and after they were under the influence of the drug. Student A was watching television before she smoked marijuana, was asked which advertisement was splayed before the show started and she got four out of five of her answers correct. After this first section, she smoked a small dose of marijuana twice within an hour. Fifteen minutes after she smoked her last blunt, she continued her regular activity of watching sitcoms. When a commercial would come on, I would ask her simple questions like what happened before the show went to a commercial break. Her responses would be macro-answers about what was going on but when I asked her what the main character was wearing, she did not remember. This was ironic because the protagonist wore a bright yellow suit that my friend commenting on earlier when the show began ten minutes ago. Her short-term memory is weakening because she was only able to remember big picture information and not small picture. Though the results are interesting, I know that I would have had different response on someone else because it depends on how often the user smokes and if they have good memory prior to smoking weed.
Marijuana also impairs emotions. When smoking marijuana, the user may have uncontrollable laughter one minute and paranoia the next. This instant change in emotions has to do with the way that THC affects the brain's limbic system. The limbic system is another region of the brain that governs one's behavior and emotions. It also "coordinates activities between the visceral base-brain and the rest of the nervous system."(8) I am now going to use Students B to describe how emotions are affected by marijuana. Students B is an articulate and well spoken young woman who has a troublesome relationship with her best friends which gets her upset and tense up. But after she smoked one high dose weed, her body was relaxed however, she had trouble formulating her thoughts clearly and would talk in pieces and was jubilant. It has been researched that a person needs to have high dose of marijuana would be in the state of euphoria. High dose of marijuana is measured as "15mg of THC can cause increased heart rate, gross motor disturbances, and can lead to panic attacks."(9) Thankfully, Student A did not experience any of these extreme examples.
...you sound like you'd be real fun at parties.
Ahhhhh puhlease take that junk elsewhere........... smoke somtin.
Yeah, and people who are drunk have more trouble than sober people with motor skills and keeping emotions under control. What's your point?
you brain cells will fry and you will die.
weed kills brain cells, causes loss of memory, behavior is off balance and sometimes vicious
Sort of like legal alcohol, right?
Use exfoliation
Blow easy on an ounce, thats alot for a day but just enough for a week what can i say.
buy good weed and you won't have to smoke an ounce a week or a day. My OZs last a month + and I been smokin for 40 years. MMJ is great.
dysfuntional and useless...lemon pledge.
(Yawn).
OH! And LEGALIZE NOW! SAVE OUR NATIONAL FORESTS!
Stupid cop, busting people for marijuana is a joke.
Quit arresting people for this harmless intoxicant that has never killed a single human being.
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Sounds like a good case for DUI (Dummy Under the Influence) That is still against the law even if Marijuana is legal in the state.
Just because he was in possession, that doesn't mean he was driving under the influence.
Bust their a$$ and smoke their grass.
The only way to catch a smoker is when you yourself become a toker !
The only way to make them bleed is when you bust there ass and steal their weed !
did they even bother to test him for impaired driving? driving high is the same as alcohol under the law
but not even close in reality
go to bed early
My Bongie went over the Ocean ...
nobody cares
Just silly... Marijuana laws are outdated and ridiculous. Can we please get real soon?
leave the guy be-he's confused
Stories like this just seem silly now. Just legalize it already.
excuse me.
I see CNN has quickly become the new National Enquirer. Then again, no one comes here for real news anymore. Most of us come here to get our fill of hearsay, rumors, conjecture, and political posturing. If we want real news we go to Fox News, or CNBC. CNN has blown chunks and been unreliable since the early 2000's.
Real news on Fox??? What have you been smoking???
and yet here you are commenting about a story about a rapper smoking weed
leave this guy alone....
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who is frank ocean?
In the real world you'd either look up who Frank Ocean is or keep your ignorance a secret. In the troll universe you admit your ignorance as if its' Frank Ocean's fault you don't know him. He's the best new R & B artist in years and I'm 55 and I know him. Move out from under your Bridge and join the real world.
who?
smoking weed is a person's business - although after tonight i'm getting that old 1980's feeling again.
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Who the hell is that ugly black turd? How is this news?
Move to Colorado or Washington State.
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what?
Wow... nothing happened, who cares. How about the stuff that matters CNN, you know... actual news?
Who?
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don't smoke any more weed frank...its affecting your brain...
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No stems, no seeds, that you don't need, Acapulco Gold is bad a** weed!
So what! There are plenty of people that smoke it, have smoked it or will always smoke it. News! We need news!
LOL! It was probably closer to 4:20 tho 😉 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/20/420-weed-day-marijuana-april-holiday_n_1437964.html
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TALENTLESS THUG. NOBODY CARES.
A talentless thug? You must be referring to the CHP officer.
Some laws are designed to make money from the innocent. Who profits from marijuana being illegal? Law inforcement, medical coverage (Medicaid can deny coverage if the is in the body), tobacco and alcohol industries.
...and since tobacco and alcohol creates more crime and killings, this spells more money for the medical and law inforcements. Why would they want to bring healthy and peaceful country by legalizing weed? Who are the REAL criminals?
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Can somebody just leave a black man and his weed alone, please!
Can somebody please leave everyone alone about a little weed? Why don't they put their energy towards the evil thugs who are killing each other with guns.
Why is this news?
The best part of this story is the comment section.
Was the Marijuana's first love a man?
Busted for pot.... so sick of hearing that crap. Stop trying to make a big deal about such a widely used. popular, plant. It's state legal in certain places so I guess those states have BAD BAD BAD people.
Agree!
Petty pot bust is the new gay.
HAHA! i like that.
Wow! Marijuana... really? A musician that tokes? Must be the first one.
Yeah that never happens... no artist ever uses cannabis for inspiration. What are they talking about?!
OMG Marijuana? What is the world coming to!?!?!
"around 4:30" heheheh
My PHD senses are telling me that you're off by about 10 minutes.
It's "almost" 4:30 somewhere.
Our clock at home is glued permanently on 4:20. Anytime is the right time.
4:18 and 22 seconds...what kind of weed do you smoke...do the flippin math
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Started chiefin @ 4:20