Marijuana found growing on river levee in Mo.

Monday, April 30, 2012

NEW MADRID, Mo. (AP) — Authorities in southeast Missouri are investigating after finding 15 marijuana plants growing on top of a Mississippi River levee.

KFVS-TV (http://bit.ly/KsEn5e ) reports that the plants were discovered Saturday. New Madrid County authorities described it as a marijuana plant growing operation in which plants had been transplanted from small cups onto the levee.

Deputies say they have a couple of people in mind as possible suspects.

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Information from: KFVS-TV, http://www.kfvs12.com

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spelchek 1 year, 1 month ago

Perhaps the gov't could sell it to help pay for said levees.

Daddy 1 year, 1 month ago

Dope heads will do anything they can to get their fix.

opinionated1 1 year, 1 month ago

Really? Dope heads? I prefer marijauna smokers over drug addicts and alcoholics any day. Let's not call them names just because they grow a little bit of marijauna.

Sequoia 1 year, 1 month ago

You know, the govt. should just let people grow pot for themselves. You could keep all the current laws against importing, transporting, selling, etc. The Drug War apparatus would be basically unchanged (not that I support the whole apparatus, but it is part of the bureaucratic inertia that keeps Prohibition in place). You could allow people to buy a permit, with a background check, to grow a few plants and allow small non-profit transfers. You'd still have a legal net to catch the black market, and you let regular people smoke a little pot.

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