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California Highway Patrol waxes poetic with marijuana citation

The California Highway Patrol had a message for a driver after bags of marijuana fell from the driver's truck.

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The California Highway Patrol had a message for a driver after bags of marijuana fell from the driver's truck.
By Bob D'Angelo, Cox Media Group National Content Desk
March 23, 2019

The California Highway Patrol waxed poetic on social media after citing a driver when bags of marijuana fell from a truck in Oakland, KTVU reported.

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The CHP posted photos of the spilled marijuana on Twitter with the caption: "Roses are red, violets are blue, your spilled weed is green and we have a citation just for you."

The California Highway Patrol said the driver was cited for littering and for driving a commercial vehicle without the proper license, KTVU reported.

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