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Federal charges could be in store for man who planted over 4,000 seeds
Ken Kolker | The Grand Rapids Press | 8/2/2005

BENZIE COUNTY -- He's like Johnny Appleseed, only these are marijuana seeds he's spreading, and the cops are after him.

Deputies in this rural county said they've identified the man responsible for planting 4,279 marijuana plants that were seized by police on Monday.

Police said the plants -- some up to 8 feet tall -- are worth $1,000 each, with a value officers say is $4 million.

The seizure was the biggest ever in Benzie County -- nearly three times the amount pulled during a raid last year. Deputies said they believe the same man planted last year's record plot, though he wasn't charged in that case.

"What this guy's doing, he goes around, takes seeds, finds good soil, and he just spreads the seeds," said Benzie County Sheriff's Detective Tom Whale. "He comes back at a later date and harvests the plants."

Deputies are investigating the suspect, a man in his 40s who's been in the marijuana business for years, Whale said. They hope to charge him in federal court.

"He's been busted many times for the same kind of garbage," Whale said. "He makes a living doing it. We've got a few people up here, they do this for a living. They go to jail, get back out and do it again."

Whale said he got a tip from an informant of a large plot of marijuana growing in a clearing. The 350-acre piece of land is owned by a Detroit-area man who uses it for deer hunting, Whale said. The owner told police he didn't know about the marijuana.

Whale entered the woods on Monday with about 10 deputies, state police troopers and DNR officers. At one point, they buried the county's DARE car in pot.

Whale said they plan to destroy the marijuana, perhaps burning it in an incinerator in Traverse City.

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Mamabudz

"FARMER ... could be wrong though, but that's what I think we call this Person.

Apparently a VERY GOOD FARMER...

Garbage, isn't that the stuff we also call pollution; so much of which comes from non renewable resources like fossil fuels?

This stuff's from PLANTS (euphisms include the terms: GRASS and WEED.)



They support themselves in a free market economy of supply and demand. What a concept. What a Country eh? You'd almost mistake it for a Democracy except for one small issue about the multiple arrests.

And now they want to pull Federal prosecution on this poor Dude.

Now if they do succeed in making him a Federal Case, this is a Federal Case worth paying some attention to.

Now to be fair and play "devil's advocate" for a moment, I took a look in the Benzie County, Michigan MLIVE Classified online today to see what a 40 year old agriculturalist could make in Benzie, Michigan -- say someone who was doing it for a few years and only now got caught. Benzie apparently is near Grand Rapids. I checked off the boxes for Farmer and Botanist in the classified section. Guess what? No jobs came up.

The State and possibly the Federal Governemnt interfereing with his right to earn a living because of a law that is not only wrong, but is outdated, irrelevant, and entirely politically incorrect

Now maybe it's me... Maybe because you know I do little reefer now and then. But this makes no sense to me!

And we don't even know his name. He's just Johnny Potseed...

God Bless You Man... Stay Safe!

Hugz,

Mama Budz

lilgrasshoppah

But how is being compared to Johnny Appleseed a bad thing?


What's next?

"This Bastard's a regular Jesus Christ"...?


Johnny Appleseed was an American Hero. I'd give my aunt's dentures to be mentioned in the same sentence as such a luminary as Johnny!!!

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Cassius

We need like an orbital mass-detonation intercontinental ballistic seed-spreading device. Something that we can activate, and before any governments can do anything about it, the entire planet is covered in marijuana plants, every available square foot of open soil.

That would be sweet >=)

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greypoe

Here, put it in The Machine....

Jibber420

Thats what everyone should do! Regardless if you plan on harvesting the plant at a later date. Just start planting seeds EVERYWHERE! In open public though. On the side of Roads, in front of building's, in gardens, anywhere there is good soil and enough sunlight and hope the things grow! That is a good way to make a statement to the government I think. Sort of like a silent message that marijuana is a god given plant that will grow on its own and is never going away.