--- title: Dog Brings Home Marijuana description: A dog brought home a bag of marijuana valued at 1,000 dollars in Mississippi. canonical: https://time.com/4277701/dog-bag-marijuana/ author: Olivia B. Waxman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-03-31T15:38:44.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:31:16.611Z og:title: Dog Brings Home Marijuana og:description: A dog brought home a bag of marijuana valued at 1,000 dollars in Mississippi. og:url: https://time.com/4277701/dog-bag-marijuana/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte7974778ac96142e/69888d2be20a87a069a9032a/dog-marijuana.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: dog-marijuana og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Dog Brings Home Marijuana twitter:description: A dog brought home a bag of marijuana valued at 1,000 dollars in Mississippi. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte7974778ac96142e/69888d2be20a87a069a9032a/dog-marijuana.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # This Dog Surprised Her Owner With $1,000 Worth of Marijuana  by [Olivia B. Waxman](https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer Mar 31, 2016 3:38 PM UTC  Good dog? Bad dog? Miley, the canine that found a pound of cannabis. Good dog? Bad dog? Miley, the canine that found a pound of cannabis.Jones County Sheriff’s Department  by [Olivia B. Waxman](https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer Mar 31, 2016 3:38 PM UTC A dog in Mississippi brought home a large bag of marijuana last Saturday, authorities say. The Jones County Sheriff’s Department’s narcotics division went over to the house in Ellsville to dope out how much pot was in the stash. What the owner of Miley the dog thought was garbage turned out to be a pound of “high-grade” marijuana valued at $1,000, Allyson Knotts, a spokesperson for the sheriff’s office, told TIME. The case is still under investigation because “it’s kind of hard to get the dog to tell you what kind of garbage it was digging in to,” Knotts says. “It’s possible that the dog did ingest some \[of the marijuana\] because she tore into it, but she is fine. No one was harmed. It’s not like she was high.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4277701/dog-bag-marijuana/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4277701/dog-bag-marijuana/"},"headline":"This Dog Surprised Her Owner With $1,000 Worth of Marijuana","datePublished":"2016-03-31T15:38:44.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:31:16.611Z","description":"What a party animal!","url":"https://time.com/4277701/dog-bag-marijuana/","keywords":["Newsfeed","animals"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte7974778ac96142e/69888d2be20a87a069a9032a/dog-marijuana.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Olivia B. Waxman","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte7974778ac96142e/69888d2be20a87a069a9032a/dog-marijuana.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"dog-marijuana","caption":"Good dog? Bad dog? Miley, the canine that found a pound of cannabis.","creditText":"Jones County Sheriff’s Department","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4277701/dog-bag-marijuana/","name":"This Dog Surprised Her Owner With $1,000 Worth of Marijuana"}}]}] ```