Pot spotting: Task force scans from on high for marijuana
by The Macon Telegraph
Jun 23, 2012 | 2088 views | 6 6 comments | 10 10 recommendations | email to a friend | print
As the chopper dropped toward the treetops five miles northeast of Gray, state trooper Harry Middleton leaned half his body out and peered down.

He was part of a search team, but he wasn’t looking for an escaped criminal or a getaway car. His eyes were peeled for a different kind of crime, in the shape of a small green plant.

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romanchemist
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June 25, 2012
@crawfish.creek



You must be such a upstanding parent. No one steals to buy cannabis. I happen to toke daily. I dropped out of high school and went to college because high school was not stimulating enough. THC is for bright people. You should stick to watching the propaganda in the news. Next up on "your daily news" "Your kids are getting high on life, and here is what you can do about it........" Quick take notes. The war on such an amazing plant is a joke and that plant will be here long after the human population is gone.



@Letsbefriendly



Floyd county happens to have the highest police to civilian ratio in the state of Georgia.
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TomatoMan
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June 25, 2012
I had buddies in college who smoked marijuana every day, and managed to get straight A's. One of which is in local law enforcement, and states he would start smoking again if it were ever legalized. I find that most people who have tried it can't understand why booze is legal and marijuana isn't. I find when others make comments like kids are stealing for it and dropping out of school because of it are ill informed. Legalization and taxation are the only things that make sense. Keep the money at home and starve out the Mexican cartels. I can't see paying millions of dollars to arrest and encarcerate non-violent Americans for marijuana. The South will be the last hold out due to its population of ignorant people who think it makes your children steal and drop out of school. Numerous states have adopted laws that just make more sense.
Letsbefriendly
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June 24, 2012
I think it would be much more effective to add more police to the forces and have them accually know the people they protect and serve. This would give them a way to improve the laws and the people. So crimes would not take place as often, of any kind. Knowledge and understanding is much better than force and control. How many times has an officer walk up to your door, invited you to the community and asked you how things in your neighborhood were going?
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Sneade
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June 23, 2012
Wonderful use of tax dollars...sheesh!
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DrugByTheNeck
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June 23, 2012
http://www.starhawk.net/archives/000992.html Make sure they weren't looking at Texas Star hibiscus.

The drug war is pure insanity.

Helicopters and armed men trying to identify a plant. Jeez. We didn't have the meth problem we have now when pot wasn't such a boogyman.
RWeber23
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June 24, 2012
What a wonderful waste of time.I wonder how many dangerous crimes were committed while they were busy with the "drug war". And crawfish.creek - if you have a problem with pot, I certainly hope you have a problem with alcohol, too. I would hate to think you are a hypocrite. They are both dangerous.
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