Melvin Blevin is an 18-year-old pot dealer from small town Ohio. About a month ago D.E.A. agents raided the little bastard’s home and found 2000 lbs of marijuana hidden in his walls. They must not have confiscated it all though because he had apparently had just enough left over to torture a toddler with:

PATASKALA, Ohio — Police on Monday said they obtained video showing a teenager forcing a 2-year-old girl to smoke marijuana from a pipe.

According to police, a clerk at a Columbus pawnshop discovered the video after Melvin Blevins sold his camcorder for cash, 10TV’s Maureen Kocot reported.

“They were going through the hard drive on the camera and came across the video images,” said Pataskala Police Chief Chris Forshey.

Blevins, 18, was arrested last month when drug enforcement agents raided his home and found more than 2,000 pounds of marijuana, Kocot reported.

Agents also recovered $4 million in cash and dozens of firearms.

Police said the video showed Blevins holding a pipe filled with marijuana to the 2-year-old’s lips. A short time later, the child is shown seated on the lap of a 16-year-old girl.

The next 18 seconds showed the girl coughing and trying to speak, Kocot reported.

“Get your water,” a voice said.

Forshey said the video was one of the most disturbing clips that he’s ever seen.

“You can tell that she’s inhaling some of it,” Forshey said. “You can tell that she doesn’t want to. So it’s a pretty disgusting video.”

When asked if she wanted more, the girl shook her head no, Kocot reported.

“No?” a voice asked. “You’re good?”

Court records obtained by 10TV News revealed that Blevins told investigators that it was him in the video. However, Blevins told detectives that he did not remember doing it, Kocot reported.

Blevins doesn’t remember torturing a baby, nor did he remember leaving the tape in the camcorder he pawned for quick cash. I guess all that stuff about pot affecting short term memory isn’t a plot by “The Man” to keep the magical weed out of your hands after all.

And why’s a man who had literally a ton of pot in his house so broke he needs to pawn his belongings? I guess besides being a degenerate Blevins just isn’t a very good businessman.

But smoking pot is a “victimless crime” right? Tell that to the little girl.

Speaking of potheads needing money, Canada’s socialized medical system is getting stiffed by users who “need” medical marijuana. At this point Canada’s owed a half a million bucks from 462 tokers. They’ve turned to collection agencies to try to recoup their losses:

OTTAWA - Medical marijuana users are on the hook for more than $500,000 in unpaid bills for government-certified weed, raising questions about the effectiveness of Health Canada’s troubled dope program.

Newly disclosed statistics show that Health Canada has sent final notices - and sometimes dispatched a collection agency as well - to 462 registered users since government marijuana first became available in 2003.

“Most of the 462 individuals who have received a letter regarding their accounts in arrears have had their shipment ceased,” department spokesman Paul Duchesne said in an e-mail.

The unpaid bills, totaling $554,255 as of Dec. 31, have tripled in value in the last two years and have resulted in some seriously ill citizens returning to the black market for their medication. The marijuana distribution service was specifically designed to give patients a legal alternative to street dope.

Officials have handed 29 overdue accounts to collection agencies who so far have been able to recoup just $2,000.

The statistics, acquired through the Access to Information Act and questions to Health Canada, suggest a deeply flawed program as the number of users in arrears has soared to about two-thirds of all 739 patients licensed to buy government dope.

What? Chronic pot smokers not paying their bills? I’ve never heard of such a thing?

The article also raises some questions (in my mind at least) as to the legitimacy of the program at all. Medical marijuana is supposed to be given to terminally ill patients or to combat the symptoms of serious illness. However the users in the story fit those categories loosely to say the least:

Mark Schollenberg, 42, of Stoney Creek, Ont., uses marijuana to control chronic pain from a series of workplace injuries. Unable to work and on disability, he initially used street marijuana but changed his mind.

“I thought instead of causing myself any problems, I should get a licence and do it legally,” he said in an interview.

With a doctor’s approval, Schollenberg got a licence and ordered his first batch of Health Canada dope last summer assuming Ottawa would cover the costs.

He was cut off in October, now owes $3,962.34 including interest, and is back on the street to purchase his “medicine.”

“I can’t even afford the black market,” he says of his five-gram-a-day requirement.

Wait, so basically this is a guy on disability because his back hurts (I’ve never seen that scam before) who needs five grams of pot a day? When I had surgery on my stomach for a hernia (in which my hack surgeon gutted me like a fish) I was given a week’s worth of Vicodin and pat on the back. When my prescription ran out I took Ibuprofen and smoked clove cigarettes until I didn’t feel like there was six inch gash in my belly.

But I guess Canadians are just a little more delicate than a big strapping tough guy like professional blogger Rob Taylor.

But certainly I’d feel some sympathy for an HIV positive man who needs pot for his ailment right? Wrong:

Jason Wilcox of Victoria currently owes Health Canada $6,770.06, a number that will increase with interest charges each month.

Wilcox, 37, has been HIV-positive since at least 1993, and needs 10 grams of marijuana daily for nausea, for severe pain in his foot and to help him sleep.

He says he became angry on learning that Health Canada charges users 1,500 per cent more than it pays Prairie Plant Systems for the dope.

“At that point, I refused to pay,” he said in an interview. “Also, not to mention that their product is crap.”

Maybe somebody should have told Jason that foot pain and trouble sleeping were in fact not symptoms of HIV or AIDS. They are the kind of psychosomatic milquetoastery that Canadian health care accepts as an excuse for any lazy hippie who wants to spend his days complaining about what they don’t have while not working and getting high on the tax payers’ dime.

But I suppose hard working Canadians on the hook for the drug use of grifters is also a victimless crime. Just like forcing a two-year-old to toke up. It’s all victimless unless you’re one of the many victims that legalization activists always seem to ignore.

h/t Trench