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Moscow Mistakenly Plants Field of Marijuana

Bush Dr

Painting the picture of Dorian Gray
Veteran
A field of wild cannabis plants was discovered on city land near a Moscow metro station after apparently being accidentally planted by city authorities themselves, drug control authorities said Thursday.

The Federal Drug Control Service said its agents had to "try out the profession of gardening" to remove at least 230 bushes from the area around the Brateyevo metro station that is currently being built in the south of Moscow, a statement on the agency's site said.

Local authorities had filled the area with soil as part of a development project, but instead of grass, cannabis plants sprouted in the area, the statement said.

Authorities are currently replacing the soil. An investigation is underway to determine the supplier of the soil and how the seeds came to be there, the agency said.

http://www.themoscowtimes.com/news/...eld-instead-of-lawn/459631.html#ixzz1wXbbddET

The plants are already in preflower ..... wasted genetics there :tumbleweed:
 

whiteberrieS

With A Black Flag Raised In The Sky
Veteran
Ya cant make this stuff up, haha. "An investigation is underway to determine the supplier of the soil and how the seeds came to be there, the agency said." Had nothing to do with the employees that "have to try out gardening." Sounds like one of em thought, "You want a garden? I'll give you a garden!" Good stuff.
 

Cappy

Active member
No shit, eh? Exactly what I was thinking. How the hell are they gonna flower those things in a major metro area with billions of lumens constantly bombarding the sky. The I thought of the autoflowers...
 

señorsloth

Senior Member
Veteran
it's called hemp and it happens all the time, seeds get in hay bales and soil from nearby feral populations, people are used to the fields of cannabis so they don't waste their time trying to kill millions of harmless weeds. they are then transported far away to where the soil is sold,(where wild hemp is an oddity) and people freak out that there are "pot plants" growing near them. there are 4 foot pot plants all over my town already, i can point out fields that tower well over 10 feet tall in late summer, plants grow up and down every major road and highway in my town and along every ditch...it's actually really hard to grow pot outdoors here without getting pollinated, you have to go deep in the woods, far from any area that used to be farmland, because apparently every field in the midwest was used to grow hemp back in the day...

that is a stock picture used by the newspaper, it's not an actual picture of the plants in the area. also, fyi, the plants in that picture are not pre-fowering, that's about a month into full budding. it's not an "autoflower", just a stock pic of some pot in mid bud, although, hemp does flower much earlier than traditional pot varieties...the hemp would have been fully acclimated to growing in Russia, though it wouldn't be budding till next month anyway...there is nobody out there mixing thousands of lowryder seeds into soil in hopes that some will end up close enough to the surface to survive...what a huge waste of time and money that would be!
 

Dkgrower

Active member
Veteran
It could also be some guy with a sense off humor and a surplus of seed.

We and some friends spread around 1000 seeds at a public landside and they survied untill the goverment workers came and cut them down, it was fun tho.
 

420somewhere

Hi ho here we go
Veteran
40 years ago ....

40 years ago ....

I was in the U.S. Army and stationed in Alaska.

We had thousands and thousands of seeds save.

This idiot in our company got busted trying to sell a mortar round downtown. He snitched on some MJ users, so he could get a lighter sentence. ( no MJ user were harmed )

They gave him extra duty and house arrest.

The extra duty he got was to till the ground (grassy area) in from of the Battalion headquarters.

We gave him bags of seeds ........

Well when they sprouted this guy got the local news to come out an take a picture. Of course they new who did it, but he was an idiot and they couldn't prove it.

I looked good on the front page of the Anchorage newspaper.

:plant grow:
 

trichrider

Kiss My Ring
Veteran
hemp is gaining ground with medical interests as well...ditch weed will make it's comeback as viable.
overgrow ignorance wherever it lay fallow.
 
Cool Story Dude :)

I was in the U.S. Army and stationed in Alaska.

We had thousands and thousands of seeds save.

This idiot in our company got busted trying to sell a mortar round downtown. He snitched on some MJ users, so he could get a lighter sentence. ( no MJ user were harmed )

They gave him extra duty and house arrest.

The extra duty he got was to till the ground (grassy area) in from of the Battalion headquarters.

We gave him bags of seeds ........

Well when they sprouted this guy got the local news to come out an take a picture. Of course they new who did it, but he was an idiot and they couldn't prove it.

I looked good on the front page of the Anchorage newspaper.

:plant grow:
 

hempluvr

plant pimp
Veteran
the real question here is how in the hell did those plants get that old with NOBODY noticing...come on..the leaf symbol is known across the globe......
 
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