La Porte Store Selling Kush Shut Down

La Porte, TX -- Damn kush, can you even stay out of the headlines? It seems like every other day there's something about kush in the paper.

Back in March it was the bust of a major manufacturing ring, one that included a UH professor of finance. Then just a couple of weeks ago it was that mass overdose at Hermann Park, in an area called kush corner.

Now it's the great gas station shut down. The Harris County Attorney got a court order to close Moon Mart, 10010 La Porte Freeway at North Allen-Genoa, for selling kush.

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The shut down dates back to April, when the County Attorney, and the Texas Attorney General secured an injunction to prevent Moon Mart from selling fake weed. Coincidentally, the order preventing the sale of fake weed came down on April 20. Happy 4-20 Moon Mart.

Not being the trusting sort, deputies from the Harris County Sheriff's Office went in to Moon Mart in May to make a few controlled buys. On two separate occasions they were able to score. The cops then raided Moon Mart and found more than 125 packets of kush.

Judge Alexandra Smoots-Hogan did not take kindly to having an injunction ignored. She ordered the store shuttered immediately and demanded that it remain closed for one year, effectively putting Moon Mart out of business.

The business owner, Hazim H. Quadus, and the business itself will each pay $50,000 in civil penalties and $10,000 in fines. The landlord has to terminate the lease, change the locks and prevent anyone working for or with Moon Mart from entering the property.

That's a harsh toke kid. The county attorney was able to get the order by using various consumer protection laws -- particularly the deceptive trade practices act and the nuisance law -- to go after the businesses in civil court.

The shut down order for Moon Mart came just a few weeks after the AG's office got a restraining order against Good Timez Boutique & Smoke Shop in North Houston for selling fake weed. The same thing that happened to Moon Mart happened to Good Timez -- look replacing an s with a z wasn't cool in 1992, it ain't cool now.

Back in March, some undercovers came in to the store, bought some of that fake weed and came back with a warrant. When they raided Good Timez -- which is near US 59/I-69 and Little York -- they found about 400 packets of kush.

The AG and County Attorney are trying to get permanent injunctions against both Moon Mart and Good Timez -- ugh, really? It's 2016, give it up with the z thing already.