Can you tell the difference between marijuana plants and tomato plants? (weed, price)

[burdell]

Originally Posted by J&Em

Being close to a National Park we get the black helicopters flying overhead a lot. Those people are supposed to be highly trained to see the difference between agricultural crops and weed. It does seem like there was a something else going on and more to this than is being reported. If you spot a follow up please post it NK.

I remember years ago there being a bit of a kerfluffle when 2 LEOs in a Cessna on 'weed' patrol were spending a bit too much time patrolling sunbathers around a swimming pool.

[no kudzu]

Originally Posted by J&Em

Being close to a National Park we get the black helicopters flying overhead a lot. Those people are supposed to be highly trained to see the difference between agricultural crops and weed. It does seem like there was a something else going on and more to this than is being reported. If you spot a follow up please post it NK.

Sure thing.

[Aditi Jyoti]

Originally Posted by no kudzu

Don't you think the police should be able to?

The fact that they couldn't tell the difference is distressing but pulling up crop plants is inexcusable.

And wouldn't we all be breaking the law for having "debris" on our property if we are gardeners. Some of us call that debris a compost pile.

Texas Police Can't Tell Marijuana From Tomato Plants -

I haven't read the article but they have destroyed someone's garden for being in front of their house and used the "debris" excuse, too. I wonder if this is the first attempt to prevent people from growing their own food.

[Finger Laker]

Texas seems to have an issue .... I remember a story a while back where they cleared a lot of horsemint thinking it was weed ..... pulled something like 400 plants before stopping due to it being too dark .... proud of the good they were doing in the war on drugs .... until they realized they were idiots

Hard to believe they pulled so many plants without even noticing the difference in smell - let alone look, texture, size, etc

At first I thought that this was an update or related story to that .... nope ... just Texas

The one I remember was in Corpus Christi in 2010
Horsemint Marijuana Confusion: Texas Cops Haul Off Wrong Weed

There are more examples out there that I found while searching for this one

Yikes

[hunterseat]

I think there's more to this, too.

From the air it's hard to tell the difference. I can understand that. But to commence ripping up someone's tomato crop. WTH?? Are we sure it wasn't Monsanto?

[SATX56]

They may have confused Arlington with Austin...

[hellpaso]

NO! There's a difference?

J/k. Absurd! I ran this one by snopes.com: Urban Legends Reference Pages
Before I commented.

[gizmo980]

Originally Posted by luv4horses

I'd think the tomatoes would be a dead giveaway.

Originally Posted by librarySue

Thank god we are going to win the War on Tomatos!

Tee hee.

Originally Posted by aquietpath

I'll guarantee the "tip" was from some older, nosy neighbor who didn't like the looks of the occupants and figured because they had long hair, they must be growing pot behind that bamboo. Ridiculous!

I wouldn't be surprised, since that's basically what happened to me some 15 years ago! Long story, but basically this old man I hired to fix my computer made a false report, telling the police we (three female roommates) were growing marijuana in the house. We were not. Thanks to him, we had to endure a police raid, guns being pointed in our faces, even our dogs' lives being threatened. One of my roommates was so traumatized, she slept at her boyfriend's house for weeks afterwards. So the cops can be over-zealous sometimes, and nosy people can cause major trouble if you're not careful.

P.S. To this day, I still wonder why he falsely reported us... we weren't even "hippies," just young working women living together in a little A-frame house. Maybe he was a homophobe, and thought we were some lesbian orgy/cat house? Who knows, but I hope karma gets/got him for it.

[DeannaC]

Originally Posted by burdell

Maybe they thought they were just big red buds.

HAHAHAHAHAAA!

(I grow tomatoes, I used to grow weed, when I was a kid...tomatoes have a MUCH sharper smell than marijuana!)

[DeannaC]

Originally Posted by hunterseat

I think there's more to this, too.

From the air it's hard to tell the difference. I can understand that. But to commence ripping up someone's tomato crop. WTH?? Are we sure it wasn't Monsanto?

Idk how I missed this..I was thinking the exact same thing...