Confiscated pot plants turn out to be deer-protein plants

[matcom]

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GULFPORT, Miss. -- Narcotics officers thought they had made a big bust when they seized 500 suspicious plants from Marion Waltman.

Authorities say the plants looked like marijuana, but they turned out to be protein plants used to bulk up deer.

Waltman says the kenaf plant does look like marijuana.

"But it has seven leaves at the top and okra-looking leaves at the bottom," he said. "Marijuana only has five leaves. Any drug officer should have been able to figure it out."

Now Waltman's angry and he wants authorities to compensate him for his loss.

Harrison County Sheriff George H. Payne Jr. says he never reported the plants were marijuana, only that they appeared to be the illegal weed.

http://www.boston.com/news/daily/11/odds_plants.htm

[gWbush is Mabus]

1. some have 7 leaves

any stoner should have been able to figure that out

[Liberal Veteran]

2. Well, they sorta look like pot plants, but still....

Even so, narcotics officers should be able to tell.

[mike_c]

3. not with those flowers....

eom

[Liberal Veteran]

6. But it'd be a great camoflauge for the real stuff....

...don't you think?

:)

[underpants]

4. So the deer smoke the kenaf and then the get hungry...

they go get some 7-11 hotdogs and some Ben & Jerry's and this is supposed to bulk them up? No it will make them fat, ya see that's what wrong with them yung'uns today..............

[Interrobang]

5. But...but...but...

Why in hell's name would you want to bulk up deer?! The things are vermin, and they're overpopulated almost everywhere already! If Waltman wants deer, he can come up here and shoot as many as he likes...they seem to do a pretty good job fattening themselves up eating the rare flora, the crops, the bark off the trees, the livestock's food, etc., etc., etc.

[XNASA]

7. That's crazy. Deer can't roll joints.

They don't have opposing thumbs. Any idiot knows that.

I guess they could use a bong or something,...but still....that's nuts.

:crazy:

[populistmom]

8. Seeds

If someone ever has "seeds", throw them in the dirt by government buildings, public places, and in wealthy neighborhoods. If enough gets around, it makes it harder to control. (Not that I would, Mr. Ashcroft.)