Re: Cultivating to get busted

At 09:59 AM 2/2/99 -0800, Susannah Meininger wrote:
> <Still laughing uproariously>
>
> I saw a plant listed in Chiltern's by the common name "False Hemp" and was
>SO tempted to grow it in my front yard, just to mess with people.  But I
>figured the cops would trample the rest of my garden...

A friend of mine who is interested in Bonsai, grows various little
seedling trees as possible subjects for his art.  He had some seedling
japanese maples that he was growing in a large flat, waiting to choose
some good forms.  Most of these had particularly deeply dissected leaf
lobes - almost to the center of the leaf, very suggestive of a cannabis
leaf but OBVIOUSLY maples to ANYONE who knows plants.  Well, 
while visiting his home for a small party, an associate from the
County Public Defender's office (where my friend works) saw these
plants and assumed the were hemp plants but didn't say anything.  He
DID tell other people though, and soon people were giving my friend
'sublte' hints that they knew what he was growing.  Completely unaware
of what was going on, he was confused and concerned for months.
Finally, another associate was kind enough to help him know what was
being said about him behind his back.  He tried to clear the whole
thing up with explainations, but you know how people are - I'm sure
there are some who still think he's got some hemp growing in some
closet somewhere!!  Non-plant people find it hard to believe anyone
would go to such great pains to grow plants for reasons other than
some sort of 'product'.

Sean A. O'Hara                       sean.ohara@poboxes.com
h o r t u l u s   a p t u s          710 Jean Street
'a garden suited to its purpose'     Oakland, CA 94610-1459, U.S.A.
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