Pubdate: Sun, 12 Oct 2003
Source: Ogdensburg Journal/Advance News (NY)
Copyright: 2003 Johnson Newspaper Corp.
Contact: http://www.ogd.com/letter.htm
Website: http://www.ogd.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/689
Author: Charles W. Kelly, Publisher
Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v03/n1462/a02.html

POT SHOULD BE REMOVED

The pot smokers' lobby seems very upset that the St. Lawrence County
Drug Task Force dared to dig up a large crop of marijuana recently.
Deputies say people were going out and harvesting it for them selves.
The pro-marijuana smokers group claims it was just wild growing hemp
that wouldn't give anybody much of a buzz.

I don't know whether they had tried it out to make that determination,
but it seems ridiculous to me to be criticizing the drug task force
for digging it up.

Leaving 60,000 to 70,000 poor quality marijuana plants growing wild
doesn't make a lot of sense to me.

Leaving it there would simply allow pot growers to plant their own
among the wild crop if they knew deputies wouldn't be back.
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