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Two Corfu residents accused of growing marijuana

By Howard B. Owens

Marijuana, both growing and harvested, was allegedly found in the home of two Corfu men Wednesday after members of the Local Drug Enforcement Task Force executed a search warrant at the residence.

Two men were charged with criminal possession of marijuana, a Class D felony.

Jailed on $10,000 bail was Matthew T. Milleville, 26, of Main Road, Corfu, and bail was set at $2,500 for Andrew J. Marlinski, 26, of Main Road, Corfu.

Both men were also charged with a misdemeanor count of unlawful growing of cannabis and Milleville was charged with criminal possession of a controlled substance, 7th.

Investigators report that they found LSD in the residence.

Allegedly found in the residence were more than 30 growing marijuana plants along with harvested marijuana and marijuana paraphernalia.

Scott Birkby

Here indeed is the unknown quantity among narcotics. No one can predict its effect. No one knows, when he places a marijuana cigarette to his lips, whether he will become a philosopher, a joyous reveler in a musical heaven, a mad insensate, a calm philosopher, or a murderer.

Dec 13, 2012, 11:00am Permalink
Doug Yeomans

Scott, I'm sure those things happen to people who never partake at all. Smoking pot doesn't turn anyone into something that they already aren't or already are. People don't become murderers or rapists "after" smoking pot. The assumption that they do is profoundly ridiculous.

Even people under the influence of opiate narcotics seldom become violent. In fact, people using opiates tend to express feelings of calmness. It's reported that Keats penned his greatest poetry while using opium.

In all fairness while evaluating the dangers of drugs, I'd say that alcohol is the one drug that turns people violent and gives them balls of brass. Marijuana tends to mellow people out and make them hungry. I've never seen it aggravate violent tendencies. Alcohol amplifies happiness, sadness or anger. Opiates and marijuana tend to have a calming effect. If a philosopher smokes pot, they don't become more philosophical. They "might" become philosophical in a different way, but they were already a philosopher.

Dec 13, 2012, 12:03pm Permalink
Scott Birkby

The weed acts as a powerful aphrodisiac and renders users capable of various acts of violence; a California man decapitated his best friend while under the violent spell of the smoke, and a Florida youngster put the ax to his mother and father.

Dec 13, 2012, 12:16pm Permalink
Howard B. Owens

Doug, I'm not aware of Keats writing poetry while under the influence of opium.

Among the Romantic poets, the one I know to be most associated with opium use is Samuel Taylor Coleridge, who supposedly wrote Kubla Khan while high. It's one of my all time favorite poems, but hadn't read it for years until this post ... (bonus quiz question -- what classic movie opens with the first lines of this poem?)

In Xanadu did Kubla Khan
A stately pleasure-dome decree:
Where Alph, the sacred river, ran
Through caverns measureless to man
Down to a sunless sea.
So twice five miles of fertile ground
With walls and towers were girdled round;
And there were gardens bright with sinuous rills,
Where blossomed many an incense-bearing tree;
And here were forests ancient as the hills,
Enfolding sunny spots of greenery.

But oh! that deep romantic chasm which slanted
Down the green hill athwart a cedarn cover!
A savage place! as holy and enchanted
As e’er beneath a waning moon was haunted
By woman wailing for her demon-lover!
And from this chasm, with ceaseless turmoil seething,
As if this earth in fast thick pants were breathing,
A mighty fountain momently was forced:
Amid whose swift half-intermitted burst
Huge fragments vaulted like rebounding hail,
Or chaffy grain beneath the thresher’s flail:
And mid these dancing rocks at once and ever
It flung up momently the sacred river.
Five miles meandering with a mazy motion
Through wood and dale the sacred river ran,
Then reached the caverns measureless to man,
And sank in tumult to a lifeless ocean;
And ’mid this tumult Kubla heard from far
Ancestral voices prophesying war!
The shadow of the dome of pleasure
Floated midway on the waves;
Where was heard the mingled measure
From the fountain and the caves.
It was a miracle of rare device,
A sunny pleasure-dome with caves of ice!

A damsel with a dulcimer
In a vision once I saw:
It was an Abyssinian maid
And on her dulcimer she played,
Singing of Mount Abora.
Could I revive within me
Her symphony and song,
To such a deep delight ’twould win me,
That with music loud and long,
I would build that dome in air,
That sunny dome! those caves of ice!
And all who heard should see them there,
And all should cry, Beware! Beware!
His flashing eyes, his floating hair!
Weave a circle round him thrice,
And close your eyes with holy dread
For he on honey-dew hath fed,
And drunk the milk of Paradise.

Dec 13, 2012, 12:23pm Permalink
Doug Yeomans

Acts as a powerful aphrodisiac? Makes people violent? Spell of the smoke? You sound like a lawmaker that has never used a gun, passing gun control laws or a priest trying to convince sheeple that the world was created in 7 days.

Dec 13, 2012, 12:46pm Permalink
mike nixon

The one poet that stands out to me is Barrack H. Obama!

I shall raise the debt,
Get them High and they will come,
so I can spread the wealth,
a stoned people is a plyable people.

or something like that. Im pretty sure he didnt right it. BUT....

I am pretty sure its a cultural thing. Its seems that the more you smoke, the more liberal you are. I would seriously like to see a study on this. It seems the more liberal you are, the more you need big government to take care of you.

Dec 13, 2012, 12:47pm Permalink
Doug Yeomans

John, It's just an analogy. I also don't mention it as much as people of faith do when they reference God or Jesus in a passing comment. The religion thing is everywhere in society. Major holidays, marriages and religious icons are all around us. They're shoved in everyone's face whether they like it or not. In fact, Jehovah's knock on my door in order to try and brainwash me. I've never seen an Atheist knock on anyone's door to try and get someone to disbelieve. I don't see Atheist propaganda or icons driving home their message.

I don't think my analogy is invasive or out of line.People of faith shouldn't even be bothered by my analogy. When I get the knock on the door, I'm polite and tell them in simple enough terms that I'm not interested and to be careful as they exit my driveway. Speeding Christians coming over the rise at the corner of Jerico and East road are dangerous!

Dec 13, 2012, 2:24pm Permalink
Dave Olsen

"Marijuana: The weed from the devil's garden" "One moment of bliss, a lifetime of regret" "Hunting a thrill, they inhaled a drag of concentrated sin" "Wake up America, It's Reefer Madness"

Dec 13, 2012, 2:36pm Permalink
Rex Lampke

New York needs to wake up and make it legal. This prohibition needs to stop, it just makes lots of money for a few people just like alcohol did in the 20's. Like the Kennedys or Big Al, crooks like them but now it's the cartels. I dont understand how someone that claims to be consertive could support these types of laws.

Dec 13, 2012, 4:55pm Permalink

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