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Drug police raid home of pensioner couple… after ‘mistaking their moss garden for a cannabis factory’
DAILY MAIL
Friday, December 5, 2008
Bungling police raided the home of an elderly couple after they mistook the smell of a common garden plant for cannabis.
Ivor and Margaret Wiltshire bought ‘moss phlox’ four years ago for £2 and spread it through their front and back garden.
But the plant – which grows vivid pink flowers in the spring and looks nothing like cannabis – gives off a pungent aroma similar to the drug.
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The smell was so strong the couple’s next-door neighbours were even threatened by a local drug gang who broke into their home and demanded: ‘Give us the weed man’.
Weeks later Ivor, 77, and Margaret, 79, returned home to find the drugs squad had battered down their front door and searched their property.
No drugs were found and a police woman later told them the moss phlox was responsible for the raid after a sample was taken for analysis.
The couple have since received an apology from Avon and Somerset police, but have lodged a complaint with the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC).
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18 Responses to “Drug police raid home of pensioner couple… after ‘mistaking their moss garden for a cannabis factory’”
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December 5th, 2008 at 11:40 am
Legalize it already – sheesh.
The only reason anybody ever ran into problems with cannibis is due to the fact that it is still
illegal.
Perhaps if pot were legal the cops could concentrate more of their efforts into the policing of really dangerous drugs instead of picking on hippies and old people! What a disgrace!!
December 5th, 2008 at 12:24 pm
Why are the coppers wasting their f***ing time chasing after pensioners’ garden plants. So what if it was weed. Avon and Somerset obviously has no real crime to solve.
I might buy some moss phlox and see what happens….
December 5th, 2008 at 1:50 pm
lol, the war on weed is a ploy, they actually demonized weed because it is a superior cloth, all civil war uniforms were made out of hemp and lasted 10x as long as cotton clothes. They wanted something more “consumable” so that they could make more money, they then began to demonize the plant. It is also a natural drug that can be mixed into food or smoked with good medicinal purposes, it is a weed and thus easy to grow so the Big pharma industry wouldn’t be able to profit of it, therefore they refer to it as a “narcotic” when it has none of the characteristics of a narcotic. It is an unregulatable source for clothes and medicinal drugs as well as recreational drug that has NO long term side effects. It actually only kills brain cells when inhaled but not because of the weed but the restriction of oxygen to the brain (same as tobacco)
December 5th, 2008 at 2:51 pm
what morons, they need to team up with the newspaper bobbies !!!!!!!!!!!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrfG2r4bTOc
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December 5th, 2008 at 6:22 pm
Legalize moss phlox today!
December 5th, 2008 at 6:41 pm
Remember when the Police were actually Detectives? Not sure I do either.
December 5th, 2008 at 9:55 pm
A sure sign that there should be a basic minimum intelligence requirement for new police recruits. And drug testing as well !
December 6th, 2008 at 3:37 am
The War on Drugs. What a scam. Remember, drug-sniffing dogs can be made to “false alert”, which gives officers legal grounds to search a car or a home.
December 6th, 2008 at 5:05 am
I smke moss flox every day…and it didnt afect meeeeeeeeeeeeeee
December 6th, 2008 at 2:13 pm
pensioners tell bungling police ” Go Phlox Yourselves! “
December 6th, 2008 at 2:33 pm
Tried to buy some Phlox today, but it’s sold out everywhere! I hear it makes a nice smelly stocking filler for Xmas.
December 7th, 2008 at 7:22 am
I find it veryyyyyyyyyyyy interesting that the police did the same thing the street gang did. They broke into a home looking for the stash. The difference between the cops today and a street gang? Absolutely nothing at all!!!
December 7th, 2008 at 12:33 pm
pissed in canada
YOU ARE 100% RIGHT.
THANK DUPONT FOR THAT.
December 7th, 2008 at 7:28 pm
What a fubar!! Bloody poofter wankers,…..We aren’t any better than the Limes though, we taser distressed children of drowning fathers….Wait for it………..Pussies!!!!!!!! Yeah Five OH, that would Definately be you!!!! I can’t wait for Barry to show his true colors so we can move on with fixing this country. Hey Everyone, DON’T Vaccinate! And MERRY CHRISTMAS all you anti-Christmas crybaby sissy’s!!!! LOL
December 7th, 2008 at 8:21 pm
Prison planet
December 8th, 2008 at 9:34 am
The criminalization of drugs is madness, and a blight on free and open societies everywhere.
February 27th, 2009 at 1:54 pm
As sonn as the Moss Phlox is legal in ALL STATES, & it WILL be, the states under the 10th Amendment (State Sovereignty) can tell the Feds where to stick it, & also take all their state agencies off the trail of it. The criminal element will be dragged out of the darkness into the light, (GOVT). Hence, why Phlox Dispensaries in CA keep getting raided by Blackwater Agents, they also target Phlox patients going to & from Dispensaries. Now, that CA is REALLY BROKE, the Judges up in northern CA are pushing for it’s COMPLETE legalization to tax the revenue to throw into the state budget. They already take in millions in taxes each year now, but they could kick the FEDS out & bring in 3x as much $$. We all know the Governator has indulged before. Just keep watching & fighting, because we all know & love it when these wankers make aSSeS out of themselves, it’s inevitable!
February 28th, 2009 at 3:46 pm
As it happens folks, dope aint unlawfull, only illegal!! You see the “drug act 2005″ is a statute, not a law!! The word “statute” is a legaleze word that means “contract!!” Now the one thing a contract requires to make you a part of it – is you your consent!!!
The only law that actually exists is common law as defined in the Magna Carta 1215, and the Bill of Rights 1659!! IT IS NOT UNLAWFULL TO: smoke dope or use any drug forbiden by the “drug contract 2005!!” Think about it – ANY STATUTE (except those that fall within common law) IS NOT COMPULSARY!! It is illegal to force anyone into contract, its even illegal to fool anyone into contract!!
The same is true of any statute (contract) such as; parking tickets, speeding tickets even the tv license!! Without your consent they are useless!! Go to http://www.tpuc.org to find out just how much we’ve all been conned by their corruptnesses and how to fight back!! 322 We know about you – you can cum out of the coffin now!! TRUTH IS SOVEREIGN!!!