These guys live in Georgia and they don’t know what okra looks like?
The best part:
These guys are still trying to identify one of the most commonly cultivated plants in the area? What, did they get confused by all those “characteristics that were similar to a cannabis plant” (i.e. it was green and had leaves)?
I’d make a snide comparison to Barney Fife, but I’m pretty sure he knew what okra looks like.
The mistake is funny, but it’s also distressingly common. And he’s absolutely right about this:
This could’ve happened. Perry is lucky he escaped with his life.
I think the best explanation is that the cops had just eaten some good ol southern fried cannabis at the local Po Folks.
Other cases I’ve heard about involve the fact that marijuana looks and smells exactly like basil, and sometimes sprouts tomatoes. He’s lucky they didn’t seize his farm as a civil forfeiture.
No way.
Wait until someone discovers you can get high from smoking kudzu.
Frankly, I’d rather see people prosecuted for possession and/or distribution of okra than marijuana. That shit is evil.
Anyone ever have “pot gumbo”?
If you eat enough nutmeg you can get a crappy psychoactive high. Ban that filth.
I’d agree except that you can’t make a decent gumbo without it. Fried or whatever, on a plate… hanging offense.
But yeah, this is the kind of situation that involves someone shooting first and no point in asking questions of the corpse(s) later.
I am lucky then that I haven’t been busted for my okra patch. Really, it’s amazingly similar - it has deeply divided leaves, grows tall, and…
Nope, you’d have to be an idiot to mistake okra for pot. In fact, those officers should’ve had their Southern citizenship revoked for making such an error.
It’s this sort of confusion that makes me wary of growing Texas star hibiscus in a conspicuous location out by my mailbox.
I recall someone here once talking about getting a high from Salvia?
The part that really stuck with me is how they described the rather crappy and unpleasant high. It was something like the following:
If getting high from some weed is like good sex, getting high from salvia is like being molested by your creepy Uncle down in the basement.
As our friend Kermit says, it’s not easy being green.
Check out the youtube videos, search “salvia”.
When I was in high school, there was a group of kids a couple of grades below me who were busted for smoking pot at school. Further investigation revealed that the “pot” was, in fact, oregano.