Cannabis in the Cabinet

It may only have been a funnier news item if it were actually featured in The Onion. Clever headlines like "No pans, just pot in this cabinet," "Home DePOT Vanities Hold Drugs," "Marijuana 'bricks' found in Home Depot vanities," and "Plumber finds a fix in the fixture" graced the headers of online and print media as the fifth reported stash of drugs was found inside a bathroom vanity purchased from a Home Depot in Massachusetts. On June 8 a report came in from Tewksbury that a large amount of marijuana had been found inside a marble topped vanity, police conducted some searches and found there were a couple more vanities that held more than just a couple of holes in the back for the plumbing. 50 lbs bricks, some cocaine, and trace amounts of sawdust were reported to be included inside the bathroom vanity.

The discovery of the drugs in several vanities across the Bay State has sent police on searches of 12 Home Depot stores. They uncovered several more items that had drugs stuffed inside. While drug smugglers are often crafty in their trade – like leaving the marble top off the vanity and including the counterweight of 50 lbs of marijuana inside the box instead – obviously someone overlooked something here, putting the pot-filled vanities on the floors of Home Depot stores and not in the hands of intended recipients. Unintended recipients but perhaps not ungrateful recipients. No doubt that there could be a few very happy customers of Home Depot that haven't quite finished their bathroom renovation projects because they, um, got distracted.

The image is one of the many bathroom vanities you can get at home depot. This model is only $639 and may come stuffed with $150,000 worth of pot - but no gaurantees.