Alliance Police arrested the owner of a recently opened downtown Canton business that sells cannabis products when they pulled him over on a traffic violation and found him with illegal drugs.

Nolan G. Klein, the owner/operator of Twenty After Four, was arrested at 4:35 p.m. Friday at South Rockhill Avenue and West High Street where police pulled him over for failing to stop at a stop sign at West Broadway Street and South Lincoln Avenue, Stark County Jail records said.

Police seized from him less than 10 grams of a hashish-like substance called "dabs," baked goods and candies containing marijuana and an undisclosed amount of marijuana that officers say had been prepared for distribution. They also seized butane torches and containers for the storage of "Dabs."

Investigators with the Canton Police Department's special investigations or vice unit said "dabs," also called "honey oil," are the result of a process from which butane is poured over marijuana, stripping it of its THC, or tetrahydrocannabinol, the psychoactive ingredient of marijuana which causes users to become high. The highly flammable butane is cooked off the THC liquid and the result is a "buttery or taffy-type substance," said Sgt. Bryan McWilliams.

A drug user adds a "dab" of the substance onto a marijuana cigarette and then smokes it, ingesting a much higher potency of marijuana, he said.

Investigators here have recently recovered strainers and plants stripped of THC in the process of making "dabs," and investigators have found "dabs" stored in a refrigerator, he said.

Medical marijuana users view it as significantly more dangerous that other forms of cannabis use," according to the National Institutes of Health website.

Klein told The Repository for an article published April 20 that the products his store sells at 604 Sixth St. NW - which also sells clothing, jewelry and artwork - do not contain THC. Cannabidoil is found in cannabis and can be used for pain relief, or to stop spasms and reduce inflammation and Colorado Hemp Honey also has CBD, but Klein said users of these products to not become high.

But Alliance police believe the items they found Klein with Friday afternoon were being sold. The jail records said that Klein "does sell these items, having reasonable knowledge the equipment will be used for drug paraphernalia."

Klein, 28, of 14461 Ravenna Ave. NE in Marlboro Township, was jailed on charges of trafficking in a controlled substance, trafficking in LSD, criminal tools possession and drug paraphernalia possession.

He remained in the jail Saturday, held in lieu of $126,750 bond pending an Alliance Municipal Court hearing.

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