I just knocked on wood I hope it works.This is very important stuff can't have people buying gardening supplies.I grow Hibiscus too we have 3 of them.So I guess I should expect an appearance of a gaggle of heroes.
Mistaking Hibiscus for Marijuana,DEA raids gardeners home
Last month I noted that a visit to an indoor gardening store plus wet tea leaves in your trash can earn you an early-morning visit by rifle-wielding agents of the state. In addition to drinking tea, a fondness for hibiscus (perhaps to put in your tea) can make you look like a felon to cops with too much time on their hands, as Angela Kirking discoveredlast fall. Four DEA agents and five local police officers burst into Kirking's Sherwood, Illinois, home around 5 a.m. on October 11, looking for a marijuana grow. Instead they found 9.3 grams of pot (less than a third of an ounce) and three glass pipes. Kirking, a 46-year-old face painter, recently asked a judge to throw out the evidence obtained during the search and the two misdemeanor charges resulting from it, arguing that police did not have probable cause for a warrant.
Why did the DEA think Kirking was growing pot? On September 17, The Huffington Post reports, Donn Kaminski, a Braidwood, Illinois, police officer assigned to the DEA, was staking out Midwest Hydroganics in Crest Hill when he observed Kirking "exit the front door of the store carrying a green plastic bag containing unknown items." Kirking says it was liquid fertilizer for her hibiscus plants. Based on her apparent interest in gardening, Kaminski obtained Kirking's electric bills, which were "consistently higher" than the bills of two neighbors. He also sifted through her garbage, finding "multiple green plant stems" that allegedly smelled like "green cannabis." A field test (perhaps the same kind that misidentified Addie Harte's tea leaves as marijuana) supposedly confirmed that the stems came from a cannabis plant. Presto: probable cause. Or so a judge thought.
It must be safer to order stuff online now.No wonder they have the portable spy tower at Lowes can't have people growing plants for God's sake.To borrow a concept from WRSA I wonder what Lee Greenwood has to say about this.
Mistaking Hibiscus for Marijuana,DEA raids gardeners home
Last month I noted that a visit to an indoor gardening store plus wet tea leaves in your trash can earn you an early-morning visit by rifle-wielding agents of the state. In addition to drinking tea, a fondness for hibiscus (perhaps to put in your tea) can make you look like a felon to cops with too much time on their hands, as Angela Kirking discoveredlast fall. Four DEA agents and five local police officers burst into Kirking's Sherwood, Illinois, home around 5 a.m. on October 11, looking for a marijuana grow. Instead they found 9.3 grams of pot (less than a third of an ounce) and three glass pipes. Kirking, a 46-year-old face painter, recently asked a judge to throw out the evidence obtained during the search and the two misdemeanor charges resulting from it, arguing that police did not have probable cause for a warrant.
Why did the DEA think Kirking was growing pot? On September 17, The Huffington Post reports, Donn Kaminski, a Braidwood, Illinois, police officer assigned to the DEA, was staking out Midwest Hydroganics in Crest Hill when he observed Kirking "exit the front door of the store carrying a green plastic bag containing unknown items." Kirking says it was liquid fertilizer for her hibiscus plants. Based on her apparent interest in gardening, Kaminski obtained Kirking's electric bills, which were "consistently higher" than the bills of two neighbors. He also sifted through her garbage, finding "multiple green plant stems" that allegedly smelled like "green cannabis." A field test (perhaps the same kind that misidentified Addie Harte's tea leaves as marijuana) supposedly confirmed that the stems came from a cannabis plant. Presto: probable cause. Or so a judge thought.
It must be safer to order stuff online now.No wonder they have the portable spy tower at Lowes can't have people growing plants for God's sake.To borrow a concept from WRSA I wonder what Lee Greenwood has to say about this.