Texas cops raid farm commune when mistaking tomato plants for marijuana
Texas cops raid farm commune when mistaking tomato plants for marijuana
Police in Arlington, Texas are being criticized for their tactics during a drug raid on a local farm that came up empty while allegedly damaging both the property and the crops.
“They can’t even tell the difference between tomato plants and a marijuana drug cartel,” farm resident Quinn Eaker told KXAS-TV. “That’s just really bad intel.”
Eaker said to KXAS that he and several residents at the “Garden of Eden” sustainability garden were handcuffed at gunpoint by officers during the Aug. 2 raid, which also involved a SWAT team, after an undercover officer and helicopter surveillance allegedly gave authorities probable cause to believe there was marijuana being grown on the premises.
“They came here under the guise that we were doing a drug trafficking, marijuana-growing operation,” owner Shellie Smith told WFAA-TV. “They destroyed everything.”
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/08/14/texas-cops-raid-farm-commune-when-mistaking-tomato-plants-for-marijuana/
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I have two mini patio tomato plants growing next to my barn. Hope I can harvest before the raid!!! 
OK this makes me smile, remembering one of my favorite stories involving my late brother. When he was a teenager he had a pot plant growing on my mom's kitchen windowsill. She thought it was a tomato. He went away on a camping trip with some friends and asked mom to take care of it.
Mom. The lady with the black thumb.
Anyway, she killed it, and felt like a shit for years until my bro felt sorry for her and told her it wasn't really a tomato plant...
they really should teach cops what pot plants look like.
I once did really see a giant pot plant, though, ironically enough, in a local police station. I was taking a Law Enforcement course in college and the instructor brought us to the police station to look around.
Right there in the office...a giant pot plant...it must have been all of 7 feet tall. I didn't have to look...I could feel my fellow students drooling with envy
But they literally don't hire cops for their intelligence...
just as euphoric as if I had just smoked a joint. 
As a 19 year old I shared a rented house with another guy who was in the same apprentice program.One 3 day weekend,room-mate and 2 of his buddies went to Wisconsin.Visited one of their grandparents farms where they picked several tobacco leaves.Room-mate hung his leaves on the back yard clotheslines to dry so he could smoke them.After a couple days,tipped off by a neighbor that we must be dope dealers,the cops busted in with a search warrant for hashish marijuana any green leafy substance and scales.The only thing we had that fit the warrant were those tobacco leaves,which were the size of bathroom floor mats.
The cops took his tobacco.
It looks like a nice, well organized Sustainable Farm.
http://intothegardenofeden.com/
My Wife & I are committed to living as sustainably, green and independently as possible, and moved to our little place in The Woods in 2006 where we produce much of our own food.
Our place in West/Central Arkansas is not too far from The "Garden of Eden" in Arlington, Tx.
Though I don't have much use for "vortexes" and such things,
if I ever get over that way, I would like to drop in for a visit, and see how they do some of the things they do. From the photos, it looks like they are doing it well.
After looking at the photos on their website,
I thought, "Just the kind of place the pigs would enjoy smashing up."
* what you get when you graft pot plants onto tomato roots, you get POTatoes. Fabulous for Stoner Salad, they say.
developing soypot. Vegans and pot go hand in hand, so anyone growing soybeans MUST be cultivating pot.
Hemp not, my neighbors, the vast abilities of my crop will go to ... SATAN.
