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DAVENPORT, Iowa -- The Scott County Sheriff's Reserves will take up their annual battle this week against a plant once cultivated by Iowa farmers to make rope during World War II.
Sheriff Dennis Conard said the reserves started Wednesday to hack down wild marijuana growing in farm fields and along roadways. The work will continue Thursday.
Conard said every year, the reserves cut down and burn between 15,000 and 20,000 wild marijuana plants ranging from 4 inches to 10 feet in height.
He said the plant is a weed, making it hard to eradicate.
Conard said the wild marijuana leaves can be dried and smoked, but they do not have the potency of marijuana plants cultivated for illegal drug use.
Growing cannabis plants, of either the hemp or marijuana varieties, is illegal in the United States.
TheIowaChannel.com
July 29, 2004
Copyright 2004 by The Associated Press.
https://www.theiowachannel.com/news/3591101/detail.html
Sheriff Dennis Conard said the reserves started Wednesday to hack down wild marijuana growing in farm fields and along roadways. The work will continue Thursday.
Conard said every year, the reserves cut down and burn between 15,000 and 20,000 wild marijuana plants ranging from 4 inches to 10 feet in height.
He said the plant is a weed, making it hard to eradicate.
Conard said the wild marijuana leaves can be dried and smoked, but they do not have the potency of marijuana plants cultivated for illegal drug use.
Growing cannabis plants, of either the hemp or marijuana varieties, is illegal in the United States.
TheIowaChannel.com
July 29, 2004
Copyright 2004 by The Associated Press.
https://www.theiowachannel.com/news/3591101/detail.html
