Re: "Group pot gardens" (May 23): After reading this fair and well-written article about medical cannabis/marijuana, I have a question and a comment.

The question is: Please tell the rest of us patients what on Earth kind of fertilizer that the gentlemen arrested at Five Mile House were using? Sheriff Sgt. Steve Mason said "some of the plants in Five Mile House yielded a half- to three-quarters of a pound of drug after agents dried them - compared to a pound or more that an outdoor plant can produce." Just exactly what part of each plant did they dry? Are they aware that only the top-most buds are used by patients for medicine - never leaves and stems?

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