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 P-O
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 Re: Georgia Drug Warriors Raid Okra Grower, Looking for Marijuana 
#751093 - 10/04/14 09:55 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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http://reason.com/blog/2014/10/03/georgia-drug-warriors-raid-okra-grower-l
Jacob Sullum|Oct. 3, 2014 4:13 pm
This is marijuana:
This is okra:
Basically the same, right? If you agree, you may have a bright future as a Georgia drug warrior. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports that heavily armed Broward County deputies, accompanied by a helicopter and a K-9 unit, showed up at the home of retiree Dwayne Perry in Cartersville on Wednesday after someone spotted his okra plants from the air. "They were strapped to the gills," Perry told the paper. "Anything could have happened." Fortunately, no humans or dogs were killed.
Georgia State Patrol Capt. Kermit Stokes, whose agency is in charge of the anti-pot task force in which the deputies were serving when they stopped by Perry's place, assured a reporter for WSB-TV, the ABC station in Atlanta, that it was all an honest mistake. "If we disturbed them in any manner, that's not our intent," Stokes said. If we disturbed them? Detracting further from his semi-apology, Stokes suggested that it still was not clear exactly what Perry was growing and that the cops' confusion was readily understandable. "We've not been able to identify it as of yet," he said. "But it did have quite a number of characteristics that were similar to a cannabis plant."
Jacob Sullum is a senior editor at Reason magazine and a nationally syndicated columnist.
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 webster10
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Re: Georgia Drug Warriors Raid Okra Grower, Looking for Marijuana [Re: P-O]
#751156 - 10/05/14 12:07 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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LOL.
These are the people who are hired(with our own taxes ) to keep us safe. This is an embarrassment that I personally couldn't ever bring myself to show my face in public again afterwards.
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Re: Georgia Drug Warriors Raid Okra Grower, Looking for Marijuana [Re: webster10]
#752391 - 10/12/14 02:24 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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I thought okra was popular in the south. What kind of Georgian can't identify an okra plant?
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