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Savvy Smoker Seizure

Posted on December 20, 2023 | 15 comments

Savvy Smoker might not be so smart after all.

Yesterday — following several complaints about the sale of illegal substances — Westport detectives executed a search warrant at the Post Road East smoke and vape shop, located in the former Subway store.

Assisted by agents from the state Department of Consumer Protection Drug Control Division, they found “a significant number of illegal items.”

They include hundreds of jars of pre-rolled marijuana cigarettes and vape cartridges, containers of concentrated resin, synthetic cannabinoids, dozens of packages of THC gummies, marijuana, and packaging materials.

The THC in many products exceeded the limit allowed in a hemp product, and/or were not in child or tamper-resistant packaging, police say.

Savvy Smoker does not hold a cannabis dispensary, hybrid retailer, retailer or delivery service license from the DCP.

The investigation continues, police say.

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Wheels Goes Round And Round

Posted on June 2, 2016 | 18 comments

You and I pump our gas. We pay. We may or may not take our receipt. We leave.

The photo below is as ordinary as it gets:

Wheels gas pump

But you and I are not Mary Ann West.

Look closely. On Tuesday Last Saturday she pumped 3.473 gallons of regular gas. At 2.43 9/10 a gallon, that’s $8.47.

Even if she’d bought super — which she did not — the bill would be $9.79.

Yet Wheels on the Post Road, next to Torno Hardware, charged her $10.

Mary Ann is nobody’s fool. Both the principle and the pennies meant a lot to her.

CT Department of Consumer ProtectionShe complained to the state Department of Consumer Protection. Yesterday — just 4 days later — an inspector visited the Wheels station.

He could not replicate the problem. But he ordered the manager to submit all of Saturday’s receipts. The inspector will check  each one.

Mary Ann gets a full refund.

And Wheels gets a black eye.

NOTE: Every gas pump in the state has a Department of Weights and Measure sticker, with an 800 number to call if a customer believes the pump is measuring incorrectly. Every pump must also have a sticker indicating when it was last checked for correct calibration. If you see a pump without that information: beware!

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