{"id":9626,"date":"2009-08-03T16:39:36","date_gmt":"2009-08-03T23:39:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=9626"},"modified":"2009-08-03T17:08:51","modified_gmt":"2009-08-04T00:08:51","slug":"us-snowboarders-caught-with-weed-in-nz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=9626","title":{"rendered":"US Snowboarders Caught With Weed In NZ"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two snowboarders, one &#8220;understood to be Winter Olympics double medallist&#8221; and another an Olympic hopeful are scheduled to appear in court next week in Wanaka New Zealand on charges of possessing the weed, according to a story in <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stuff.co.nz\/southland-times\/news\/2716613\/US-snowboarders-up-on-dope-charges\" target=\"_blank\">The Southland Times<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The pair, aged 26 and 21, were arrested in Wanaka on Saturday night after being stopped for random roadside breath testing. . . Sergeant Paul Crosswell, of Wanaka, said the pair were allegedly caught with &#8220;not an insignificant amount&#8221; of cannabis in their car. . . They will appear in the Queenstown District Court on Monday.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>According to the <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/news\/article.cfm?c_id=1&amp;objectid=10588530\" target=\"_blank\">New Zealand Herald<\/a><\/em><\/strong>  &#8220;The maximum penalty for a conviction for possession of marijuana is three months&#8217; jail and\/or a NZ$500 fine (US$330),&#8221; or about the same fine as running a red light in LA. . . now let&#8217;s see. . . who is 26, American, and has two Olympic medals. . .<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stuff.co.nz\/southland-times\/news\/2716613\/US-snowboarders-up-on-dope-charges\" target=\"_blank\">The Southland Times<\/a><\/strong> via <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.snowjournal.com\/page.php?cid=topic15440\" target=\"_blank\">Snowjournal.com<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two snowboarders, one &#8220;understood to be Winter Olympics double medallist&#8221; and another an Olympic hopeful are scheduled to appear in court next week in Wanaka New Zealand on charges of possessing the weed, according to a story in The Southland Times. The pair, aged 26 and 21, were arrested in Wanaka on Saturday night after [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9626"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9626"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9633,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9626\/revisions\/9633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}