Seattle police seize 40 marijuana plants from park
SEATTLE (AP) - Seattle police say they seized 40 to 45 marijuana plants from a public park over the weekend, but don't plan to investigate further because pot enforcement is a "low, low, low priority."
King County sheriff's deputies called Seattle police on Saturday morning to say they'd found the plants growing in a 9-acre park called Llandover Woods Greenspace, on the Shoreline border. The Seattle Police Department said in a blog post Monday that officers seized and destroyed the plants because they can't be cultivated publicly, and because "it's not that kind of greenspace."
The department says it's unusual for people to surreptitiously grow marijuana plants in public parks in Seattle, especially during the cold and rainy winters.
Washington voters legalized the possession of up to an ounce of marijuana last fall.
King County sheriff's deputies called Seattle police on Saturday morning to say they'd found the plants growing in a 9-acre park called Llandover Woods Greenspace, on the Shoreline border. The Seattle Police Department said in a blog post Monday that officers seized and destroyed the plants because they can't be cultivated publicly, and because "it's not that kind of greenspace."
The department says it's unusual for people to surreptitiously grow marijuana plants in public parks in Seattle, especially during the cold and rainy winters.
Washington voters legalized the possession of up to an ounce of marijuana last fall.
@komonews the park was at Llandover Woods 'Greenspace'
Being that it's growing on public property....ahem, as long as you dont carry off more than an ounce at a time, it's legal, right? lol
it's a weed! leave it alone! fight real crimes!Â
nutmeg gets you high if you smoke it too! ban nutmeg!
What an absolutely strange society we live in.Â
But then, you know....come to think of it, these plants did NOT grow there. Â Somebody PUT them there recently AFTER they had grown to this size. Â As someone else noted, it's winter in Seattle, and pot plants would never survive our winters outdoors. Thus, someone grew these in a greenhouse and then put them out there in that park. Â WTF, Dudes? Â Why?
@chiapetto I hear ya...It's one of three things....it's either someone who doesn't care they just wasted away several thousand, or, they were growing it, had to hide it fast...with the possibility of detection did they not (the only sane reason to put it there in my opinion lol), or, they were just THAT stupid and thought it would grow in this weather.
Oh, what a waste of a perfectly good and harmless plant! Â Oh The Horror Of It All!!! Â They SHOULD have taken them into protective custody until they could have found a caring facility in which to be cared for properly! Â But DESTROYED!?!?! Â You ANIMALS!! Â (And yes, I AM serious.)
@chiapetto P.S. ROFL...I vote you the plant guardian
Haha. wtf?!?! lemme just go to the park and grow some ganja, for all the kids. LOL thats helle funny
Give these plants to Gov Inslee - they can only make him smarter.
I think it would be kind of cool if potheads started throwing their unwanted seeds around in the woods. Emerald city and all. I'd love to come across a big garden of wild growing reefer on a hike. Just to squeeze it and smell it. For old times. We legalized it, why shouldn't it grow wherever?
@Exedore Not a bad idea. As long as you have no more than an ounce...keep your plant controllable, etc. You'd have to prune it of course lol
I doubt "seized" is the word. I realize that makes it seem more dramatic, but really they just found and pulled the plants out.
"... 9-acre park called Llandover Woods Greenspace..."...it was called "Greenspace"!!
@aintno1special ROFL...are you serious?
One thing's certain marijuana can be grown just about anytime, anywhere and anyplace.... Oh the horror.... Ha!
@Funky-Munky It used to grow everywhere....hence the moniker "weed". To get potent crops however, environmental control is necessary.
Must be that new strain "Seattle Sludge"; which has 1% potency of the average brand,,,,,so you can smoke more!
We use to do this all the time in the old days. Drop a few seeds in the ground in some of the parks, feed them a little nutes once in a while and let the public enjoy the beauty of this plant in full bloom.lol Doesn't hurt anything. Its like the feds argue about grows in the national forests. Doesn't hurt a thing. They use the same nutrients as everybody else uses in the flower and vegetable gardens.
@Blindman to say growing in the national forest doesnt do any damage is super ignorant. most of the weed growing in the national forest involves diverting creeks for irrigation and tons of garbage is left behind by the 'farmers' tending to the crop, also a lot of times the 'farmers' are armed and ready to defend their crop and pose a threat to other users of the national forest such as hikers and hunters. this is a good read on the effects of growing in the national forest down in california. http://www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-adventure/politics/Weed-Whackers-.html?page=all
@Blindman I have no problems growing in parks but the grows in national forests that are cash crops are bad for the environment as they saturate the land with "nutes" that are not natural to that setting. They seep into the ground and the local water table causing much more damage then just a natural grow would do.Â
Those plants were most likely no good and worthless anyway. Who is stupid enough to try to grow outdoors here, let alone in winter? They were probably covered in mold and would have gotten you the same high if you would have smoked pine needles.
40 to 45 plants......Well which one is it? Seems to me they should be able to count correctly.
@F4I ...Well it would seem they must have "burned" the plants to destroy them!
@F4I I can't count accurately above 10 when I'm stoned...
Ah, potheads and those who want to get rich off of them.