’The Last Time I Checked, It Wasn’t Illegal To Grow A Tomato Plant,’ Man SaysHundreds of marijuana plants were seized by police officers in Independence, Missouri on 4/20, a day celebrated by pot smokers. But when the cops came busting in at one man’s door looking for cannabis, they found a tomato growing operation instead.”What I saw today was not protection,” the man told KMBC’s Cliff Judy. “That was harassment, all because of where I made a purchase.”See, it turns out the Missouri Highway Patrol “monitors” stores that sell hydroponic growing equipment — and they use those sales to track down illegal marijuana growing operations. That information — couple with the asinine assumption that any customer at a hydroponics store must be involved in cannabis — led them to the tomato farmer’s door.
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