Robert S. Mueller III touched down in Concord to prosecute a massive hashish bust.

Robert Mueller and the San Francisco hash bust of 1978

On a spring day in 1974, just across the street from where now stands the Westfield Mall, cops hauled 1,800 pounds of marijuana and 46 pounds of hashish from high-security trucks into the San Francisco Mint Building.

More than $450,000 worth of drugs, seized by U.S. Customs over a two-year period, went up in smoke that afternoon. The flames were snuffed in the Mint's after-burner, "lest they induce a gigantic high." The story ran in the May 18, 1974 edition of The San Francisco Chronicle 

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Four years later, a young
Robert S. Mueller III touched down in Concord to prosecute a massive hashish bust. Then the Assistant U.S. Attorney, Mueller has become a household name as the special counsel presiding over the FBI's current Russia probe.

See more photos of massive drug busts in the San Francisco Bay Area – including a motorcycle cop with a 150-pound sack of pot on his lap – in the above slideshow.

These obscure vignettes reflect a time that may soon be resigned to Bay Area history. Californians voted to legalize the recreational use and sale of cannabis last year. The law goes into effect Monday. However, many of the photos above are from federal busts, which may still be carried out despite California's changing laws.

For full coverage of the rollout of legal marijuana in California, check out the Chronicle's GreenState.com.

Michelle Robertson is an SFGATE staff writer. Email her at mrobertson@sfchronicle.com or find her on Twitter at @mrobertsonsf.

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FINANCIAL ABUSE OF AN ELDER OR DEPENDENT ADULT

 (a) Physical abuse, neglect, financial abuse, abandonment, isolation, abduction, or other treatment with resulting physical harm or pain or mental suffering.

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ABANDONMENT: The desertion or willful forsaking of an elder or a dependent adult by anyone having care or custody of that person under circumstances in which a reasonable person would continue to provide care and custody.

ABUSE OF AN ELDER OR A DEPENDENT ADULT means either of the following: (a) Physical abuse, neglect, financial abuse, abandonment, isolation, abduction, or other treatment with resulting physical harm or pain or mental suffering. (b) The deprivation by a care custodian of goods or services that are necessary to avoid physical harm or mental suffering.

FINANCIAL ABUSE OF AN ELDER OR DEPENDENT ADULT occurs when a person or entity does any of the following: (1) Takes, secretes, appropriates, or retains real or personal property of an elder or dependent adult to a wrongful use or with intent to defraud, or both. (2) Assists in taking, secreting, appropriating, or retaining real or personal property of an elder or dependent adult to a wrongful use or with intent to defraud, or both.

A person or entity shall be deemed to have taken, secreted, appropriated, or retained property for a wrongful use if, among other things, the person or entity takes, secretes, appropriates, or retains possession of property in bad faith.

ISOLATION means any of the following: (1) Acts intentionally committed for the purpose of preventing, and that do serve to prevent, an elder or dependent adult from receiving his or her mail or telephone calls. (2) Telling a caller or prospective visitor that an elder or dependent adult is not present, or does not wish to talk with the caller, or does not wish to meet with the visitor where the statement is false, is contrary to the express wishes of the elder or the dependent adult, whether he or she is competent or not, and is made for the purpose of preventing the elder or dependent adult from having contact with family, friends, or concerned persons. (3) False imprisonment, as defined in Section 236 of the Penal Code. (4) Physical restraint of an elder or dependent adult, for the purpose of preventing the elder or dependent adult from meeting with visitors.

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