Monday, June 12, 2006
When in Doubt!
Marijuana has been found growing on the courthouse lawn in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. A local TV station had it tested to be sure it was the real thing. The official explanation was that seed must have been mixed in with dirt spread on the lawn. Sure. The stuff must get to a certain height before it can be recognized. And don’t they bother to mow the lawn up there in South Dakota. Keep the grass cut short and no one will ever notice.
Reminds me of an incidence in Columbia County, Arkansas, some years ago. The local sheriff got wind of some marijuana growing on an empty lot. He sent out his deputies and they started cutting away. They burned most of it. Some people with more experience in these matters wandered by and told the law officers that what they had was not the real stuff. The sheriff dismissed this unsolicited advice. Botanists from Southern Arkansas University were then called in and they categorically denied that the “vine” was marijuana. The sheriff still did not believe them.
Less than a year later some of his inmates were found growing marijuana in a storage shed at the jail. If memory serves me correctly, he denied that what they were growing was grass. At least it did not look like what they had been burning a few months earlier.
For a while we had a large sofa-size painting hanging on our wall. It was an okra plant, but ¾ of the people who saw it, thought it was marijuana. They had never seen an okra plant. Now, I know an okra plant when I see one. I have picked many a bucket of okra pods with long sleeves on. Now, if you have ever picked okra, you recognize the need for the sleeves. Most people are highly sensitive to the plant, which will sting almost as badly as a bull nettle if you brush against its leaves with bare skin. Not everyone can recognize marijuana, but anyone who has ever been stung by okra leaves can sure recognize that plant if they should ever see it again. For those who have never seen either plant, the okra pods are a good method of telling the difference. If you burn marijuana, it smells like a tow sack burning. (A tow sack by another name would be a gunnysack or a tow bag). And for a long time tow sacks were made of hemp. I don’t know if you can get high from smoking a piece of a tow sack or not. But, if you are smoking anything that even vaguely smells like hemp, stay away from Columbia County. And I would stay away if you were smoking anything that grows on a vine as well.
Now what advise can I give you about Sioux Falls? Smoke anything you want. Nobody can tell the difference there anyway.
Marijuana has been found growing on the courthouse lawn in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. A local TV station had it tested to be sure it was the real thing. The official explanation was that seed must have been mixed in with dirt spread on the lawn. Sure. The stuff must get to a certain height before it can be recognized. And don’t they bother to mow the lawn up there in South Dakota. Keep the grass cut short and no one will ever notice.
Reminds me of an incidence in Columbia County, Arkansas, some years ago. The local sheriff got wind of some marijuana growing on an empty lot. He sent out his deputies and they started cutting away. They burned most of it. Some people with more experience in these matters wandered by and told the law officers that what they had was not the real stuff. The sheriff dismissed this unsolicited advice. Botanists from Southern Arkansas University were then called in and they categorically denied that the “vine” was marijuana. The sheriff still did not believe them.
Less than a year later some of his inmates were found growing marijuana in a storage shed at the jail. If memory serves me correctly, he denied that what they were growing was grass. At least it did not look like what they had been burning a few months earlier.
For a while we had a large sofa-size painting hanging on our wall. It was an okra plant, but ¾ of the people who saw it, thought it was marijuana. They had never seen an okra plant. Now, I know an okra plant when I see one. I have picked many a bucket of okra pods with long sleeves on. Now, if you have ever picked okra, you recognize the need for the sleeves. Most people are highly sensitive to the plant, which will sting almost as badly as a bull nettle if you brush against its leaves with bare skin. Not everyone can recognize marijuana, but anyone who has ever been stung by okra leaves can sure recognize that plant if they should ever see it again. For those who have never seen either plant, the okra pods are a good method of telling the difference. If you burn marijuana, it smells like a tow sack burning. (A tow sack by another name would be a gunnysack or a tow bag). And for a long time tow sacks were made of hemp. I don’t know if you can get high from smoking a piece of a tow sack or not. But, if you are smoking anything that even vaguely smells like hemp, stay away from Columbia County. And I would stay away if you were smoking anything that grows on a vine as well.
Now what advise can I give you about Sioux Falls? Smoke anything you want. Nobody can tell the difference there anyway.
