The horror if this devil's weed hadn't been found!

*curls into fetal position in the corner, drooling and muttering about R'lyeh*

They need to burn it one ounce at a time.

With a street value of Eleventy Quadzigabillion dollars.

Those cops need to be more careful. There's no excuse for having seeds in your roaches.

I had a buddy in college that used to plant pot seeds in planters everywhere he went.

Abe Vigoda's Ghost: Wow. Just wow.

They even tested it to see if it was positive for THC. Your tax dollars at work Tampa. You must be so proud.

100-game suspension for Tampa PD?

/or is this the second offense?

I question how Citizen Grimes knows how to spot a marijuana plant. Very suspicious.

I hate this new style of printing one sentence per paragraph.

But I guess it is needed for the idiots in Florida.

They cant read two sentences on the same line.

But it is good to know that the one and only pot plant in Tampa was found and destroyed before the Republicans arrive.

Because everyone knows that Republicans are allergic to pot and no Republican has ever used it.

Why did they need to test it? it looks like weed and it's on city property just pull it up and throw it out.

JackieRabbit: I hate this new style of printing one sentence per paragraph.

But I guess it is needed for the idiots in Florida.

They cant read two sentences on the same line.

But it is good to know that the one and only pot plant in Tampa was found and destroyed before the Republicans arrive.

Because everyone knows that Republicans are allergic to pot and no Republican has ever used it.

By Josh Rojas, Reporter

Because English is his second language and he went to a public school in Tampa?

Just a theory....

good job, you farking cops.

How else are they going to plant evidence.

It is funny how they refuse to say somebody purposely planted it and then bring up cross pollination as a possible theory to how the plant got there.

Diogenes: [cdn2.screenjunkies.com image 300x300]
Justin Grimes, 26, said he first spotted
the marijuana plant while walking to lunch
with his brother and contacted Bay News 9.

I'm guessing it was more

Oh no, a plant! Kill it! Kill it! It's green and has leaves! Kill it!!!

oh noes das evilll marihuana!, travesty!

"That's kind of weird man," said Dino Jones.


best line of the article.

I can't wait for these fear-mongering relics of McCarthyism to die off.

StrangeQ: Oh no, a plant! Kill it! Kill it! It's green and has leaves! Kill it!!!

With fire?

we need a national "scatter pot seeds" day. everyone should just start planting the stuff EVERYWHERE.

ows: we need a national "scatter pot seeds" day. everyone should just start planting the stuff EVERYWHERE.

I agree with you.

vwarb: I can't wait for these fear-mongering relics of McCarthyism to die off.

Don't worry. When the hippies grow up, they'll put a stop to all of that nonsense.

/oh, right.
//like we needed another reason to hate hippies.

Good thing they got rid of that plant.

Republicans don't want weed interfering with their hookers and meth, available at every shady motel in Florida.

untaken_name:

Don't worry. When the hippies grow up, they'll put a stop to all of that nonsense.

/oh, right.
//like we needed another reason to hate hippies.

The hippies failed us, it's true. That said, it's easy to forget that hippies were still a minority. They were just a highly public minority. I'd bet on legalization in...20 years tops.

Man, someone needs to punch Grimes in the throat. This would have been funny if found during the "Summer Special Event", which is what county employees are being coached to call the RNC. Suprised they didn't arrest him, "HOW DO YOU KNOW WHAT MARIJUANA LOOKS LIKE, CITIZEN?????"

Obvious liberal plant.

SDRR: JackieRabbit: I hate this new style of printing one sentence per paragraph.

But I guess it is needed for the idiots in Florida.

They cant read two sentences on the same line.

But it is good to know that the one and only pot plant in Tampa was found and destroyed before the Republicans arrive.

Because everyone knows that Republicans are allergic to pot and no Republican has ever used it.

By Josh Rojas, Reporter

Because English is his second language and he went to a public school in Tampa?

Just a theory....

Never make this assumption about a Florida resident, especially a Tampa resident. He could be a fifth or six generation Cuban-American. besides, this idiocy is happening all over the country. I blame forgetting how to read anything but a text message.

I imagine that people who don't know any better picture pot plants in the same manner as the kite-eating tree from Peanuts except that they believe pot plants are child-eating trees.

Very dangerous things, plants.

Theres a Jimmy Johns across the street....someone had the munchies!

vwarb: I'd bet on legalization in...20 years tops.

What a coincidence! So did they.... Unfortunately, money trumps ideals, especially the amounts of money poured into the War on Drugs.

nitrowhip: Man, someone needs to punch Grimes in the throat. This would have been funny if found during the "Summer Special Event", which is what county employees are being coached to call the RNC. Suprised they didn't arrest him, "HOW DO YOU KNOW WHAT MARIJUANA LOOKS LIKE, CITIZEN?????"

"I attended the mandatory D.A.R.E. program in elementary school, middle school, and high school, officer."

Hypothetical Imperative: I imagine that people who don't know any better picture pot plants in the same manner as the kite-eating tree from Peanuts except that they believe pot plants are child-eating trees.

Very dangerous things, plants.

I imagine they think pot grows on a tree in little plastic baggies and you just pick the baggies off and distribute.

vwarb: untaken_name:

Don't worry. When the hippies grow up, they'll put a stop to all of that nonsense.

/oh, right.
//like we needed another reason to hate hippies.

The hippies failed us, it's true. That said, it's easy to forget that hippies were still a minority. They were just a highly public minority. I'd bet on legalization in...20 years tops.

Hippies? Are you kidding me? I haven't seen a REAL hippie since 1971. The counter-culture movement was rather brief. After that, everyone just thought it was cool to grow their hair out and wear weird clothes. It was just another fad the kiddies thought made them uber-cool.

Oh and that anti-war movement? In reality, it was an anti-draft movement. Don't believe it? How many 18-30 year olds took to the street to massively protest the Iraq and Afghanistan wars?

/Turn on, tune in, drop out
//was never a "hippie"

untaken_name: "I attended the mandatory D.A.R.E. program in elementary school, middle school, and high school, officer."

Our DARE officer passed 3 joints around the classroom so we'd know what to look for if we ever encountered the wacky weed. He told us if he didn't get them all back nobody would leave the classroom till he found it.

He got 4 joints back.

JackieRabbit: vwarb: untaken_name:

Don't worry. When the hippies grow up, they'll put a stop to all of that nonsense.

/oh, right.
//like we needed another reason to hate hippies.

The hippies failed us, it's true. That said, it's easy to forget that hippies were still a minority. They were just a highly public minority. I'd bet on legalization in...20 years tops.

Hippies? Are you kidding me? I haven't seen a REAL hippie since 1971. The counter-culture movement was rather brief. After that, everyone just thought it was cool to grow their hair out and wear weird clothes. It was just another fad the kiddies thought made them uber-cool.

Oh and that anti-war movement? In reality, it was an anti-draft movement. Don't believe it? How many 18-30 year olds took to the street to massively protest the Iraq and Afghanistan wars?

/Turn on, tune in, drop out
//was never a "hippie"

I guess the real problem, then, is that the boomers, who watched the hippies on tv and probably secretly wanted to be them, instead went straight establishment and completely buttraped the country. I dunno, now I'm just depressed. If we were a rational society, we wouldn't criminalize something that a sizable minority (conservatively) do on a regular basis which doesn't hurt anyone but themselves, if they even hurt themselves. If we were a rational society, we wouldn't build ever more prisons and hire ever more policemen all while expecting crime to go down. But we aren't a rational society. I used to believe that technological advances would lead us to rational behavior, but I've since realized that it's not happening - instead, idiocracy is the far more likely outcome. This is why I'm a nihilist.

yert: I had a buddy in college that used to plant pot seeds in planters everywhere he went.

I'd bet someone doing something similar is responsible for this. I used to save pot seeds from way back when I still bought pot that had seeds. I have finally come to the conclusion that I'll probably never start my own garden and even if I do it would be better to get a clone of something of better quality. So now I have a million seeds and I think the only way to get rid of them is to throw them out of my car every time I pass a police station.

"I suppose there could be a thousand explanations as to how it got there," he said. "Whether it's through pollination or somebody decided to actually intentionally plant something there."

I'm no plant expert but I don't think you can just pollinate a plant that isn't there to begin with. Maybe a bird could eat a whole seed and poop it out, but I still think someone just thought it would be funny to drop a few seeds in a planter near a cop station.

Happy Hours: I'm no plant expert but I don't think you can just pollinate a plant that isn't there to begin with. Maybe a bird could eat a whole seed and poop it out, but I still think someone just thought it would be funny to drop a few seeds in a planter near a cop station.

Plants don't need to be pollinated to grow from a seed. Only to produce more seeds. In general, you don't even need a seed to make more plants either. You can take a cutting of a plant and grow a clone of the original from the cutting.

untaken_name: I guess the real problem, then, is that the boomers

The hippies were boomers, boomers who attempted to change social injustices and expose corruption in government. They succeeded on many fronts. They failed on many others. The ones who came after them were posers and nothing more. Even some of the hippies were only hippies because it was fashionable. You have to remember that, in their day, hippies were despised by the vast majority of the country. They were dirty America-haters, dope-heads, and sex fiends. Some of them were beaten to death just because of how they looked. A few years later, the rednecks who would beat a hippie to within an inch of his life was doing everything in his power to look and act like a hippie.

And today, 45 years after the Summer of Love, 20-somthings, who have never actually seen a hippie and know zero about the counter-culture movement, have decided that they need to hate them, too. As if they didn't have enough to hate already....

Came for last marijuana plants ever.....

leaving disappointed.

fluffy2097: Good thing they got rid of that plant.

Republicans don't want weed interfering with their hookers and meth, available at every shady motel in Florida.

Good thing Democrats are in favor of legalizing it, right?

Happy Hours: yert: I had a buddy in college that used to plant pot seeds in planters everywhere he went.

I'd bet someone doing something similar is responsible for this. I used to save pot seeds from way back when I still bought pot that had seeds. I have finally come to the conclusion that I'll probably never start my own garden and even if I do it would be better to get a clone of something of better quality. So now I have a million seeds and I think the only way to get rid of them is to throw them out of my car every time I pass a police station.

"I suppose there could be a thousand explanations as to how it got there," he said. "Whether it's through pollination or somebody decided to actually intentionally plant something there."

I'm no plant expert but I don't think you can just pollinate a plant that isn't there to begin with. Maybe a bird could eat a whole seed and poop it out, but I still think someone just thought it would be funny to drop a few seeds in a planter near a cop station.

Interestingly enough some bird seed does contain hemp seeds.

yert: Interestingly enough some bird seed does contain hemp seeds.

Several varieties of hemp, most of which are at best mildly psychoactive, grow wild in several parts of the country. During the Reagan Administration, the DEA had a hemp eradication effort in some parts of Texas, where a native cannabis grew wild. No one smoked it, but they spent tens-of-millions of dollars trying to eradicate the evil weed.

Then there's the old trick of attempting to hide your pot crop from law enforcement's aircraft by growing it among fields of other crops. That doesn't always work out so well.