Google delivers marijuana

I recently signed up for google alerts to help notify me of stories containing the words "garden" and "plants." I guess that I was was clueless about what the popular news subject on gardens is this time of year.

Corn?

Tomatoes?

No, try "Marijuana."

6,000 MARIJUANA PLANTS DESTROYED IN MONTEREY COUNTY
CBS 5, CA - Sep 9, 2006
... The sheriff's marijuana eradication team located the plants during a random flight on an air force helicopter, according to the sheriff's office. ...

Officers find 4,700 marijuana plants
Seattle Times, United States - Sep 9, 2006
... Police and drug-enforcement officials have removed 4,700 marijuana plants from a forested area south of Lyons, Linn County Sheriff Tim Mueller said. ...

Sheriffs search for growers of seized marijuana plants
Contra Costa Times, CA - Sep 9, 2006
Alameda County sheriff's investigators found and destroyed an elaborate marijuana grow site off Niles Canyon Road on Friday. About 675 plants were seized for ...

...and the list just keeps going. I had no idea.

I had heard jokes about marijuana being the biggest crop in California, but I wouldn't have bellieved it until seeing the reports come in—and these are just the folks that got caught. Must be one heck of a state fair!

And I bet the crop art is far out.

there sure are some hard working gardners out there!

that's a bummer man.......

and that is such a drop in the bucket for California. Remember Marijuana is legal here. Most of these get busted because they are grown, illegally on Public land. Trust me Minnesota has alot of this growing in corn fields.