Ron Hardin wrote:
The news this morning is that the county has found 300 marijuana plants
over the summer by helicopter.

Is there something about marijuana that makes it easy to identify from
the air, or could you do this with any plant of the same size?

Not many other plants look like 15' tall neon green christmas trees.

Did the news say what strains the choppers had busted? Usually
it's worthless zero-potency ditch weed, by small town sherrifs
out for a bit of media exploitation ala J. Edgar Hoover. Look at
the pics. Do the plants look thin, scrawny, like bamboo? That's
not pot. That's fiber-grade hemp, probably descendants of escaped
plants from cultivation back in the 1920s.

The valuable potent strains, if grown outdoors, will be camouflaged by
bending, pruning, and leafing. So long as it doesn't look like an xmas

tree, it won't draw attention.

Plant ID from the air seems in my experience pretty unlikely, but maybe
I'm not looking for the right clues.

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Ron Hardin


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