[Libloather]

Troopers now take DNA samples from each plant they find. That enables them to link one plant to dozens or even hundreds of others.

Technology, dood...

[John Jorsett]

If someone is arrested five years from now for growing that first plant, police could make a case that the same person was responsible for a much larger crime, and possibly take the case to federal court.

Any defense attorney worth a nickle would make mincemeat out of that argument.

[Armedanddangerous]

One hundred plants? Are you kidding me?? State Troopers pulled up 891 plants from two patches near Danville West Virginia last thursday and friday.

I was with them two years ago when they eradicated 1400 plants from one mountainside.

And as for catching people in the act, they seldom do. About the only time cops ever catch a grower is if someone stumbles on 20 plants on someone's back porch.

[VeritatisSplendor]

It's amazing the breeding and selection that has gone into marijuana - dwarf plants that grow under lights, that produce an enormous number of flower buds, whose active substances have been multiplied I don't know how many times - I think I may have figured out how to solve world hunger - we could make rice or corn illegal...and see what the breeders do...

Mrs VS

[RonHolzwarth]

reply to: "One hundred plants? Are you kidding me??"

Really, it is truly a JOKE!

In several of the midwestern states, marijuana grows WILD - by literally MILLIONS of plants!!!

(That's because the US govt encouraged farmers to grow marijuana during WW II, now the govt has changed its mind, but it is to late, THE WEED has ESCAPED!)

Perhaps we should pull out of the Middle East and all of the military bases all over the world, and spend up all the resources of the world's great superpower -

to pull THE WEED!

[Dacus943]

"Take DNA Samples (from each plant)"

Visions of a stained blue dress come to mind!!!

[Freebird Forever]

In all, police found 100 marijuana plants worth about $200,000 on the street.

Someone forgot to make their contribution the the LEO retirement fund.

[Dallas59]

LOL! I've seen plants growing along Texas hwys. People throw the seeds out the car window.

[nothingnew]

Don't Bogart that joint, my friend, pass it over to me....

FMCDH(BITS)

[Lexington Green]

WOD Resistance Tip # 2 - Plant Your Seeds

[pepperhead]

Wow after all those trips, wasting lots of gas they finally found some plants that they can't pin on anyone. Well at least the chopper pilots had fun.

[The Libertarian Dude]

Why not apply all this wonderful technology to, oh, I don't know... catching terrorists?

Nah. Too obvious.

[Ursus arctos horribilis]

War on drugs = colossal failure. I am three score plus, my entire adult life they have preached the big lie, "we are winning the war on drugs".

Decriminalize drugs now, give the idiots all the free stuff they want, the sooner they are all dead, the safer the rest of us will be.

[ATOMIC_PUNK]

I don't smoke pot but this is just too damn stooooopid we've got people who want to nuke us with all sort of vile crap and were spending hard earned dollars busting a pot grower or at least the pot and taking DNA samples on the whim that some day we could bust some stoned hippie jackass and bust him for a Field of pot that was confiscated and never yielded !

Makes me wonder how much pot the cops have been smoking to dream this crap up ?

[jmc813]

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