Good old boys with two much time on their hands or what? You would think in Georgia that law enforcement should know what okra looks like. Someone needs to serve a lot of desk duty over this one. Is there any way that a simple “I am sorry” makes up for this blunder?
Georgia police raided a retired Atlanta man’s garden last Wednesday after a helicopter crew with the Governor’s Task Force for Drug Suppression spotted suspicious-looking plants on the man’s property. A heavily-armed K9 unit arrived and discovered that the plants were, in fact, okra bushes.
The officers eventually apologized and left, but they took some of the suspicious okra leaves with them for analysis. Georgia state patrol told WSB-TV in Atlanta that “we’ve not been able to identify it as of yet. But it did have quite a number of characteristics that were similar to a cannabis plant.”
Indeed! Like cannabis, okra is green and it has leaves.
Let the stupidity continue….
Is there such a thing as an okra high?
@Wolve
Only when you combine okra with gumbo.
I am reminded of the UVA girls who were buying bottled water for some event. They were accosted by the ABC agents.
That screw up cost the state of Virginia some big bucks.
Looking back on it, that girl panicked and did what Hannah Graham should have done. She panicked and got away. Its what girls are taught to do.
I love fried okra, but “high” is probably overstating how I feel after eating it.
We continue to criminalize pot while legal alcohol results in trillions of dollars in health and societal costs each year. We really need to rely on science to guide us on what to criminalize and what to allow. Pot has medicinal value for nausea, anorexia, pain, glaucoma, epilepsy and asthma. Peyote is helpful for drug addiction, alcoholism, depression and anxiety.
We’re putting a lot of folks in prison for the wrong drugs.
Heavily armed…for possible pot?
That just seems so absurd. helicopters circling over pot?
That was in case of them good ole boys with their pot bellies and long guns.
Has anyone else noticed that police are no longer doing “police” work? No investigation? How hard would it have been to actually send someone over there to check the plants?
This sort of thing is happening over and over again.
Instead of a knock on the door or an apprehension when the perp is leaving for work….etc
they arm up for a SWAT raid.
I’ve read about SWAT raids to serve warrants.
It seems like a waste of money to have SWAT teams to serve warrants. I guess though, it would depend on who is being served.
The militarization of police is a growing problem. And it’s expensive!
Maybe the fact that SWAT now shows up sometimes just to serve warrants is a negative reflection on contemporary American society, not the police.