42 year old Alberta man dismissed of drug charges: 1,600 seized pot plants turn out to be daisies. - Polidicks

[img]http://i.thestar.com/images/3b/46/8dc26ce44a4db50f4852b36705f7.jpg[/img] [quote]Please don’t smoke the daisies. It turns out that more than 1,600 suspected marijuana plants that a special police squad ripped out of a yard in Lethbridge, Alta. this summer are a species of daisy. The bust, which was announced with fanfare in July, has homeowner Ryan Thomas Rockman scratching his head over the confusion. Just the same he’s happy the Alberta Law Enforcement Response Team (ALERT) has dropped the charge of producing a controlled substance. “It made me look like a villain and it made them look silly,” Rockman told the Lethbridge Herald, insisting all 1,624 plants seized were Montauk daisies — a fall-blooming perennial he’s been growing for a decade. “It baffles me, to be honest. At the same time, I don’t want to try to point the finger of blame at them either because they’re still just trying to do their mandate and make it home every day,” said Rockman, 41, who faces other drug charges in connection with the raid. Insp. Dan Konowalchuk, head of the combined forces special regional enforcement units, defended the officers’ actions. “I don’t think there is anything at this point for the guys to apologize for. They acted on what they believed to be the best information they had at the time,” Konowalchuk told the Star Thursday. “First of all, we don’t know for sure they’re daisies,” he said, even though an effort was made to identify the plant species through experts. The test results, which came back this week, clearly prove the seized plants weren’t marijuana, even though they resembled the hallucinogenic plant. “The guys believed they were dealing with a sub-strain of marijuana,” Konowalchuk said. “There are some similarities to the (marijuana) plant when you look directly at the plant. But are they identical? No, they’re not. (Even so) the guys thought they we dealing with a large grow operation and they responded accordingly.” Lethbridge police went to Rockman’s home on July 30 to check on a relative who was under a court-imposed curfew. The relative wasn’t there but they found Rockman had been smoking marijuana and called in the ALERT team to search the property. Rockman faces charges of possession for the purpose of trafficking, possession of a controlled substance (697 grams of dried marijuana and 6.3 grams of cannabis resin), and possession of proceeds of crime relating to cash found during the investigation. He is also charged with production of a controlled substance with respect to the resin. He is scheduled to appear in court Friday. Neither he nor his lawyer Art Larson could be reached by the Star for comment. Konowalchuk said that if the ALERT team did err it was in not seeking advice from Alberta’s so-called Green Teams, which do nothing but investigate marijuana grow ops. In the past year alone the two teams have seized 57,000 marijuana plants, which would yield 185 kilograms of processed marijuana.[/quote] Source:[url]http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/1267047--alberta-pot-turns-out-to-be-late-blooming-daisies[/url]

Where can I buy those daisies, that would be hilarious

[QUOTE=Fourm Shark;37915727]How do you fuck up like this?[/QUOTE] People have such a hard-on for busting pot farms that they let shit fly past their heads. I mean, cmon, the "special" police couldn't correctly identify a plant that looks only remotely like a pot plant. Emphasis on "special", I guess. [editline]maryjuana[/editline] well, I'll give them the fact that he a little pot on him and a shitload of plants, but it's still rediculous that they fucked up that badly.

Oh hey this is where I go to university

Lol i'm from edmonton, 3/4 of the people i know are growers

Good lord, how do you even make that mistake?

You know, daisies can also be used as a drug. :420:

Clearly the have no idea what marijuana plants look like, how they fucked up that bad is shocking.

[QUOTE]Ryan Thomas [B]Rockman[/B][/QUOTE] :tinfoil:

Shortly after my parents moved to Tennessee some police officers came to my parents house after they found a couple rows of this plant in the field they were clearing, looked close enough to catch their eye. [IMG]http://i45.tinypic.com/2scj8.jpg[/IMG] The officer just asked what they were doing with it, they said they were in the process of clearing the field and mowing it all down, he said okay and left. We don't know who planted it, the property was vacant for a few years so it could have been anyone.

They probably smoked it. "Hey, this shit doesn't work!"

wow i feel bad for that dude

that doesn't even look like weed

still, why the fuck does he have 1600 daisies.

Well if they take all these things and they bury them fast I bet they prayed that they turn into seeds, to roots and then grass.

Word of the day: "Oops".

[QUOTE=Kartoffel;37917135]Word of the day: "Oops".[/QUOTE] Oopsie Daisy

[QUOTE=MightyMax;37916998]still, why the fuck does he have 1600 daisies.[/QUOTE] cus they're fuckin boss

And they couldn't have taken one of them for it to be tested?

"Damnnnnn, look at all this weed" "Smells like daisies... SHIT MUST BE DANK! TAKE HER BOYS!"

[QUOTE=imptastick;37916907]Shortly after my parents moved to Tennessee some police officers came to my parents house after they found a couple rows of this plant in the field they were clearing, looked close enough to catch their eye. [IMG]http://i45.tinypic.com/2scj8.jpg[/IMG] The officer just asked what they were doing with it, they said they were in the process of clearing the field and mowing it all down, he said okay and left. We don't know who planted it, the property was vacant for a few years so it could have been anyone.[/QUOTE] Those things grow fucking everywhere around here. I have to do a double take every time I see one. [editline]4th October 2012[/editline] [QUOTE=Crimor;37917523]And they couldn't have taken one of them for it to be tested?[/QUOTE] Or you know, maybe look at a marijuana plant at some point in their career. Maybe Google it or some shit before they book him.

[QUOTE=MightyMax;37916998]still, why the fuck does he have 1600 daisies.[/QUOTE] I think the first article made about this said he was growing a field of them, most likely for selling purposes, and that they originally thought he had mistakenly planted pot plants.

[QUOTE=Winner;37918576]Oh yeah, and just leave the other 1599 plants there with the guy they're supposed to seize them from[/QUOTE] Close off the area while you get laughed at by whoever you brought it to for it to be tested.

[QUOTE]“It baffles me, to be honest. At the same time, I don’t want to try to point the finger of blame at them either because they’re still just trying to do their mandate and make it home every day,” said Rockman, 41, who faces other drug charges in connection with the raid.[/QUOTE] Well that's nice-ish.

Did they just call marijuana a hallucinogen?

Shit that guy is bloody forgiving

[QUOTE=gamefreek76;37918935]Did they just call marijuana a hallucinogen?[/QUOTE] sensationalism. "hallucinogenic" sounds scarier to soccer moms than "harmless plant that has hurt literally nobody but the victims of a pointless drug war in the past 5000 years it has been grown and cultivated by people"