New Jersey town caught growing marijuana on High Street

Thursday, 10 September 2009 11:41

Citizen discovers pot plants growing in Millville flower baskets

The marijuana plant has been around and has a rich history. Chinese cultures were growing pot more than 2,000 years ago.

For some New Jerseyans, when you talk about the fall harvest, they are not talking sweet Jersey corn or plump pumpkins. It's pot.

Enter Millville, New Jersey ... a quiet town of about 27,000 residents and about an hour's drive from Atlantic City.

Two plants, which appeared to be of the cannabis persuasion, were found growing in one of the city-owned hanging flower baskets by a person strolling along the city's Glasstown Arts District.

The basket that held the plants was, fittingly, located on High Street.

According to pressofAtlanticCity.com, three uniformed officers propped up a ladder next to the lamp post and retrieved the basket early Tuesday afternoon. The two plants were plucked from the bucket and taken to the police station.

The flowers are maintained by the city's Parks and Recreation Department. Officials with the department could not be reached for comment.

Town resident Pam Elliott wondered aloud how long the plants had been growing and why no one spotted them until Tuesday.

"I love flowers, right," she said. "We watch the guys every day, faithfully come out and water and fertilize every basket. That fertilizer is so good."

— ANDY LAGOMARSINO, NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM

Comments (11)

I find marijuana plants growing around the city, Westerville, Ohio, where I live. I just spray Round-Up on them and go my marry way.

the government needs to realize that if they legalize it and tax it our national debt will be non existient in 6 months. i would gladly pay high taxes on marijuana if i can get it at wal mart...possession needs to be decriminalized, like they do in canada. plus if its legal we wont be worrying about armed drug cartels growing it in our national parks. mankind has been smoking grass since the stone age, get over it.

mr obama..

its time for a change..

delegalize hemp...NOW

The very fact that 2 lousy pot plants have made national news is the most disturbing. We've got bigger problems to worry about with the clowns we have running the country.

The worst cost of the War on Drugs[and probably the longest lasting] is the damage to the 4th Amendment protection against illegal search and siezure. It used to be that a search warrant was served by a uniformed officer knocking on the door. Now, its done by masked, paramilitary forces breaking down the door in the middle of the night, locked and loaded and ready to shoot to kill. In other words, an armed home invasion. For you folks worried about the loss of the 2nd Amendment rights, try rushing toward the door with a gun in hand, ready to defend yourself and your home. They will shoot you down like a dog with total impunity. But of course they never raid the wrong house by mistake! And if they do, they'll just plant some dope on site and everything will be all right. We allow this to happen because "dopers" are the bad guys, right? I wonder who the government will consider to be the "bad guys" next. Precedent, precedent, precedent.

How Silly, three police officers to nullify this, ahem, "threat"?

My god, a kid might have seen the weed and discovered it's something that occurs naturally though in this case someone thought it would be funny to stick them in there.

On a serious note though.......

It really is time to kick the drug cartels and others that have become so prevalent in this area (Western WA state) out of our state parks and federal lands where the environmental damage they do is immeasurable.

This could be accomplished in one way only and it would work immediately solving a number of serious problems that continue to plague us.

As stated, stop the environmental damage to our public lands and the safety of our citizens who might stumble upon these criminals.

Provide much needed tax revenues to our state and federal Government.

Free up prison space so we can actually keep the violent criminals locked away from society where they belong.

Time to abandon the status quo and legalize this ahem, plant (like you could really outlaw a plant that occurs naturally on every continent).

Let's face it the war on drugs has been lost........drugs won.

And lastly, what again is the definition of insanity? Oh that's right, it's continuing to do the same thing time and again, each time expecting a different result. In this regard our laws have been insane for a very long time.

Folks have lost perspective. First of all, Hemp in the early years including WWII was a cash crop grown to make rope for naval vessels and such. Because it was grown in such large quantities decades ago, it like all "weeds" grows wild. It gets seeded by the birds just like sunflowers, thissles, button weeds, etc...in some parts of the midwest it grows in the fence lines and creek areas in corn and bean fields. It was always a pain in the butt to control and it really screws up our combines when harvest season rolls around, just like sunflowers. Yes, sunflowers are natural occurring weeds also. So, since it is more likely this was a naturally occurring weed, what is all this hype about. You city folks need to get out and explore nature, you might surprised what you find naturally growing!

(a) I cannot believe the someone actually reported it.

(b) I cannot believe the police actually had the time AND took time out of their day to remove it. Not to mention the fact that it took THREE of them to do so.

(c) I cannot believe that the writer of this, and any related article, considers a couple of marijuana plants "news". The REAL story here should be about how the 27,000 residents of Millville are obviously paying for police officers they don't need.

Sure glad I don't live in New Jersey.

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This is America we have Adolf Hilteer running the show, trying to turn us into Canada ..wait don't they have legalized weed.. legalize the smoke kick out the dope . so send the dope back to Hawaii or africa where ever he is from.

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First Off: So, how many cops does it take to pull up a weed? ...three uniformed officers propped up a ladder... It cost the city how much to pull that weed? I bet they blew an hour talking about it. So, about $375?

"The two plants were plucked from the bucket and taken to the police station."

What? Did you think they would jump down and kill someone? Geez, it's long past time to end cannabis prohibition. It's stupid to keep spending money on cannabis prohibition. Where's the results? I can still get anything I want from the corner convenience store within a couple of hours. ANYTHING!

The FAILED 'War on Drugs' has seen its day come and go. The VAST majority of Americans recognize the futility and ignorance of trying to control others actions. With 25 MILLION Americans using cannabis last year alone, almost 10% of this country's population has REJECTED said 'War.' With 3 million (already occupied) prison beds, where do we propose to put everyone?! WHO is expected to pay for their food and board?

I have ZERO interest in putting up drug users in free rooms for the rest of their lives. Let them deal with their issues like alcoholics do. Recover and live their lives, or don't.
Alcohol KILLS 75,000 Americans a year, and addicts 15% of those who use.
Cigarettes KILL 450,000 Americans a year, and addicts 30% of those who use.
Cannabis has NOT ONE deatrh attributed to its use, NOT ONE. Ask the head of the DEA and ONDCP. Furthermore, cannabis can cause dependence in 10% of those who use.

So cannabis is FAR less destructive than alcohol or cigarettes AND less addictive, but it's the one that is illegal.

Where's the sense in that?!

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