They ordered four storage bins from Amazon

Yes, it's pot! Howard Cohen reports at the Miami Herald,

The first tip off was the weight. Four empty plastic storage bins should not weight more than 93 pounds.

Then the smell —an overpowering odor akin to the old Hollywood Sportatorium rock concert hall in the 1970s.

But that is what has an Orlando couple feeling dazed and confused. When the pair opened their order from Amazon that arrived at their doorstep they found the storage bins loaded with 65 pounds of wrapped marijuana.

“They were extremely heavy, heavier than you would think from ordering four empty bins,” one of the customers told WFTV.

Slightly more than 63 pounds of marijuana, wrapped in boxes, wound up in four plastic storage bins an Orlando couple ordered from Amazon, WFTV reported. WFTV

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More guns, more pot, and more booze?

Joanne Ditmer reminds us that

the 30-year Dunedin Study of more than 1,000 people found that those who used pot regularly as teens and young adults permanently reduced their IQ scores by 6 points.

Now two pot businesses want to open up shop on Denver's popular 16th Street Mall, a one mile stretch that

has 100 restaurant and beverage/entertainment establishments and one liquor store, drawing locals and visitors. It also draws complaints of beggars, transients and fights.

Alcohol is

already a problem downtown and it could get worse given legislation now being considered. Lower Downtown — with its multitude of bars and restaurants that become Denver's most dangerous area when liquor service ends at 2 a.m., according to the police — is already known for late-night fights. Drunks spill into the streets, fight with fists, knives and guns; there have been deaths and serious injuries.

The strangest solution offered for this problem is a bill sponsored by state Rep. Crisanta Duran, D-Denver, which would allow local governments to set alcohol's "last call" as late as 4:30 a.m. Booze could flow all night.

The trouble is caused by liquor, and now everyone could drink more, longer? Is the idea that more people would be "falling down drunk" and so there'd be fewer confrontations? Longer hours would certainly be more costly for business owners.

Less drinking, not more, seems more likely to reduce the mayhem. Perhaps we should go the opposite way: Years ago, liquor service at Colorado restaurants and stores ended at midnight Saturday, and lasted all 24 hours of Sunday. That was a little difficult to explain to out-of-staters, but it did seem to work.

As for guns, the legislature passed bills last year that dictated expanded background checks, with a fee, for all would-be purchasers, and limiting ammunition magazines to 15 rounds. Lots of furor followed, with 396,955 Coloradans trying to buy a gun in 2013. Only 1.9 percent were denied. How many will train on proper usage and how to secure guns safely?