Milkman goes to pot

[SHRED]

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Let's see...what sentence would he get here in the USA ("land of the free")?


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THE MILKMAN DELIVERS
Friday, March 20, 2009 | Posted by Jim Hightower

The most amazing thing to me about Robert Holding, a milkman in Lancashire, England, is not that he was delivering little packets of marijuana to a few of his elderly customers along his milk route – but that the Brits can actually still get home delivery of milk!

Imagine. Our national postal service says it can’t even keep delivering our mail to us six days a week, and here’s a 72-year-old milkman still schlepping pints of cow juice door to door each day.

It was his little side business, however, that prompted British authorities to crack down on Holding. It seems that he would also drop off small bits of cannabis to 17 of his clients who requested the extra service. “They were old,” he said, “and had aches and pains.” The customers, who were pensioners ranging up to 92 years of age, would leave little notes on their stoops alongside their empty bottles, asking, “Can I have an ounce?”

Holding, who sold the stuff on the cheap side and apparently was not raking off much of a profit, felt he was doing a public service for the old folks. “They enjoyed it,” he says, “They saved a lot of money while I was doing it, and I only did it for a short time.”

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[MADem]

1. In lots of places in the UK, they use cute little electric carts or Piaggio-style vehicles to do .

their deliveries.

And the bottles (yeah, bottles) are little pint sized things with paper and foil tops on them, like back in the dark ages. No bigass cartons!

I'm old enough to remember milkmen in America, with larger bottles, who also delivered eggs, cottage cheese, cream and yes, BREAD. Those were the days!

[navarth]

2. he should get a medal, not jail time. eom

[wroberts189]

3. "still get home delivery of milk!" ...yes I remember those days

He would also sell ice cream and let my mom build up a tab...

The company ..Hood

[Taitertots]

4. I guess the old folks need the legal alternative for their aches...

Morphine, or whatever high strength opiate the pharm giants are slanging.