Arlington Texas doesn't like organic gardening or gardeners

The Garden of Eden organic gardeners were getting grief from the city of Arlington TX.  They were cited for "grass that was too tall, bushes growing too close to the street, a couch and piano in the yard, chopped wood that was not properly stacked, a piece of siding that was missing from the side of the house, and generally unclean premises."  Well, now you can certainly understand Arlington's urgency in correcting this problem. So now you can understand why the police carried out a raid with a SWAT team complete with drones and aircraft circling the area.   The police seized "17 blackberry bushes, 15 okra plants, 14 tomatillo plants ... native grasses and sunflowers."  Eventually they produced a search warrant that claimed they were seeking cannabis plants and the resulting harvest for distribution.  This makes perfect sense because organic gardeners are all hippies and that means "drugs".  Of course they had no evidence to back up their warrant and found nothing going to pot other than maybe the house siding.  Several things are clear here.  SWAT cops don't know crap about plant identification, so they are the real dope in this story.  Smoke that okra boys, or better yet the tomatillo leaves.  TPP looked for a link to  the 24 8x10 glossy photos  with circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back of each explaining what it was about.  Ultimately, only a single arrest was made based on unrelated outstanding traffic violations.  During the 10 hour raid the residents were handcuffed because they were dangerous criminals and all.  Did they take away their shoe laces so they couldn't hang themselves?  Looks like Arlington TX knows how to violate peoples' rights, or they really really don't like organic gardens and gardeners. 














 



 

Car constructed of pot runs on coffee?

Far out, man, a car made of hemp, but if memory serves the Phactor correctly, and not all of those years are remembered clearly, didn’t Cheech and Chong come up with this idea years ago?  Will it be a worry if your car is smoking?  Still hemp as a fiber is great stuff, but it’s development as a crop has been hampered by demonization of cannabis in the USA.  But then you take all those used coffee grounds, extract the residual oil and make biodiesel to power your cannabis car, now that’s pretty nifty.  But somehow this won’t work out because just to get enough biodiesel to drive you to the coffee shop you’d have to drink a hell of a lot of coffee, so getting enough coffee grounds to supply any meaningful amount of biodiesel just doesn’t seem feasible. Think about it.  For a cross-country trip fueled by coffee you'd have to make so many pit stops, it would take forever.  But let's continue this thinking; maybe the tires will be made from chocolate. Now we need some model names: the Reefer, the Roach.  You'll have to help.  Not enough biodiesel production yet this AM.