Oakland Cigarette Shop Busted for Selling Marijuana, and Maybe a Little Meth

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Oakland Cigarette Shop Busted for Selling Marijuana, and Maybe a Little Meth

A raid on a cigarette shop in Oakland’s Seminary neighborhood turned up pounds of marijuana, cases of illegal menthols, two loaded guns, and what police call “suspected crystal methamphetamine.” Oakland, like San Francisco and now the whole state of California, has a menthol cigarette ban. So it is not legal to sell menthols at Bay Area smoke shops. One of them on International Boulevard in Oakland’s Seminary neighborhood was recently caught wit…