Ah, pot plants. Reminds me of the story of my missed trust fund.

[Rabrrrrrr]

About 15 years ago, my parents bought a large chunk of land that had been in bankruptcy/foreclosure, something like that. It was a 160 acre beginning of a valley, and they bought the slopes as well as the land inside. So, from peak to peak it was theirs - and of course, also from peak to peak, it belonged to the former owners.

So this means, of course, it is very secluded - it was a mile off a barely used county highway, getting to it only by gravel road.

So the parents buy it, and then on a walking tour land inspection, come across what could have been my trust fund allowing me never to work again - a couple acres of wildly growing marijuana, tall as houses my parents said. HUGE, they said.

Took the county guys a couple dump trucks to load it all out.

Let's say that again, because it's fun: A COUPLE DUMP TRUCKS to load it all out.

Yes indeed, a couple dump trucks of marijuana plants as tall as a house.

Could have paid for the parent's land, paid for the house they built on it, and set me up with a trust fund that I would never have to work again.

But no, they gave it all to the county.

[Shell Beau]

1. That is heartbreaking!

[Rising Phoenix]

2. what a waste : (

[seemunkee]

3. As if it all made it to the dump.

[sundog]

4. that's a sad story

[ixion]

5. d'oh!

:cry:

[babylonsister]

6. Do the 'rents still own the land? Grows like a weed,

I tell ya! :evilgrin:

[Rabrrrrrr]

7. The next year, about 20% of it regrew, and had to be hauled out, too

And that was the end of it.

[WhiteTara]

8. if it was wild grown, the chances are you could have

made some rope, or good tomato stakes, but high? I don't think so. Hope that makes you feel better. But now you know where to plant in the future! :)

[noonwitch]

9. When I was a kid, our neighbors grew it in their backyard

and in planters on the porch. The police raided their house when the dad in the home raided a dealer of harder substances' home and held him up at gunpoint. A few days later, the police burned down the tall grass section of their yard where they were doing the growing. I was in 2nd grade, and we used to play back there and we never knew what it was until years later.

The raid happened at 3:00 in the morning, too. My window faced their house. As Kentwood at the time probably had a police force of about 15 officers, they were accompanied by the Kent County Sheriff's office. It was pretty exciting for an 8 year old to witness.