Drug Squad Raids Suburban Garden, Mistakes Daisies for PotJ.G. Vibes The idea of banning plants looks even more ridiculous when a swat team shows up with a warrant to dig up and confiscate 1624 Daisies that were mistaken for marijuana. Believe it or not, this actually really happened back in July, but news is just now starting to surface that this wasnt a successful bust. At the time when police were first interviewed Staff Sergeant Wes Houston said that This is a significant bust, given the size of this operation. As he greeted reporters he was actually proudly displaying garbage bags full of daises, thinking that he was holding marijuana. (Can you spot the difference between Marijuana Montauk daisies?) Now, months later that same officer is talking to reporters again, only this time admitting that the whole raid was a mistake. This week he told reporters that In any investigation, police count public safety as our top priority, our decision to seize the plants was made with the best information we had at the time. Unfortunatly for Mr. Rockman, his well-tended back yard garden wasnt the only casualty in this act of theft, vandalism and home invasion. Rockman freely admits smoking pot to alleviate back pain, and says hes applied to the federal government for a medicinal marijuana license. Coincidentally, during the course of the raid, police found 1.5 pounds of marijuana and 6.3 grams of resin in Rockmans house. Now, a 41-year-old grandfather who uses a safe and effective medicine to make his life easier is facing serious charges, and has his reputation totally soiled in his community. Even though he is an open user and advocate of medical marijuana, the police have still put out official word that he was manufacturing and trafficking drugs, a situation that he says has had a significant impact on his reputation. Prohibition advocates would say that since this search did result in confiscation of actual drugs, that the raid was warranted. However, the drugs that were found were merely an unintended consequence of a raid that never should have happened to begin with. Nonviolent people are not criminals, and people like Mr. Rockman who use drugs responsibly are not any kind of threat to society. What is a threat to society is the growing police state that is bringing violence upon nonviolent people, kidnapping them, putting them in cages, and robbing them of every last cent that they have over the course of their probation or parole. linkwithin_text=Related Articles: 