From the same government who brings you songs of praise for paper money ...
"One of the largest marijuana plant seizures in the police department's history!"
Um, uh ... nevermind. It wasn't marijuana after all, just a plain old prairie flower.
Government are so smart. S-M-R-T.
Texas cops mistake actual weed for marijuana, spend hours doing yard work
[A] recently discovered cache of plants, initially pegged by officials speaking to local news as "one of the largest marijuana plant seizures in the police department's history," turned out to be a relatively common prairie flower of little significance.
Texas officers ultimately spent hours laboring to tag and remove up to 400 plants from a city park, discovering only after a battery of tests that they had been sweating over mere Horse Mint, a member of the mint family -- effectively turning their ambitious drug bust into mere yard work.
The plants, which bear very few aesthetic similarities to cannabis, were reported by an unnamed youth who came across them while riding a bike in the park around 8 p.m. on Thursday. Upon visual inspection, police apparently agreed that the inoffensive plants had to go.
Ultimately, officers were reduced to conducting chemical tests to learn their "weed" was really just that: an actual weed.
"That shows exactly the caliber of police work that is done in Corpus christi, Tx," commenter Derick Sillers opined in a local NBC affiliate's comments section.
"The resident of corpus and nueces county should seriously be concerned with how their tax dollars are spent," he continued. "[This] is the same police department that serves, protects and investigates you.... does it really take that long to find out you don't have marijuana."
Don't worry though, I'm sure Baal (with the help of your tax dollars) will eventually rid the world that plant God created.
