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Mother, Son Jailed; Community Jeers Officers In Bust Of One Scrawny Plant

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on December 31, 2009 Growing, News

Photo: Dee Tubbs/Bastrop Daily Enterprise

Yeah boy, we found this here merry-wanna in their house. Don’t know where you’re from, city boy, but down in Bastrop we call this a major pot bust.

A mother and her son were arrested in Louisiana after officers found a single, scrawny marijuana plant growing in their residence. But the arresting officers, far from being acclaimed as heroes, were roundly jeered and ridiculed by the community.

Agents from the Morehouse Parish Sheriff’s Office “received information” Tuesday afternoon that marijuana was being grown in the home in Bastrop, La., reports the Bastrop Daily Enterprise.

The officers went to the residence on Summerlin Lane and spoke to Angela Hughes, 51, who unwisely gave them permission to search her home. (Quick tip: Never give consent to a search. Make them get a search warrant. They won’t “go easier” on you if you “cooperate.”)

Officers say they found a box with a light attached and a marijuana plant growing inside.

Brit Prison Guards Let Con Grow Pot In Cell: He Told Them It Was Tomatoes

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on December 5, 2009 Culture, Global, Growing

Photo: Bennelliott

Verne Prison on the Isle of Portland, henceforth forever known as “that prison that lets prisoners grow weed.”

British prison guards unwittingly allowed a convicted drug dealer to grow marijuana in his cell — and even decorate one four-foot plant as a Christmas tree.

Mohamed Jalloh, 28, must be very persuasive. He convinced jail staff for at least five months that his fast-growing cannabis crop was only tomato plants, according to reporter Brian Flynn in The Sun newspaper.

(Please God, give me guards that trusting if I’m ever locked up again.)

Jalloh, who’s serving eight years on a drug charge, got so cocky, he put festive seasonal decorations on one of the plants “to brighten his cell” at Verne Prison on the Isle of Portland, Dorset, U.K.

Eventually he was ratted out by an envious inmate. Guards then identified the plants using Google image search, according to The Sun. (There you have it: There are actually still people in existence who don’t know what marijuana looks like. Prison guards, at that!)

“You could see the plants from the grounds as his cell looks on to the education department and communal outside area,” a source told The Sun. “They were on show for the world to see.”