Looking in at Iowa

From Arizona Daily Sun:

[T]he officers uncovered 30 kilograms of cocaine, or about 66 pounds, bundled in black electrical tape and concealed under a false floor near the tongue. The access point was by way of the light housing, which concealed bolts that kept a flip-down panel in place in front of a sliding metal plate.

The cocaine was bound from Tucson to Iowa. The drugs have an estimated street value of about $480,000.

Police seized the truck, trailer and ATV, along with the drugs and $12,000 in cash.

Driver George A. Freeman, 34, of Tucson, and passenger Patrick L. Sams, 54, of Anamosa, Iowa, were booked into the Coconino County jail on charges of transportation of narcotic drugs for sale and possession of narcotic drugs for sale.

According to AP version:

[Sgt. Brad] Elliott says the men were going to Iowa from Tucson.

From Wonkette post yesterday:

[S]ome person wrote to Iowa Sen. Tom Harkin “asking him to justify why medicinal cannabis is still illegal” after the American College of Physicians recommended it shouldn’t be. It merited a hilarious reply from Harkin, which noted many of pot’s notorious doom scenarios: “the small child whose parents are so addicted to illegal drugs that they sell everything including perhaps their own children to obtain a fix.” Harkin knows the routine: smoke up, eat gyro, play Legend of Zelda, sell children to pirates for more pot, repeat.  …