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if you want to avoid any problems, call the cops and have them take care of them.  thats the only sure way to avoid trouble.

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The company I work for owns a field near where I work that has quite a few marijuana plants growing wild on it.  I asked my boss if we could get in trouble for it and he said we couldn't.  I asked him if he was 100% sure and he said he was, but it just doesn’t make sense to me.  I mean if someone was intentionally growing weed in a field I seriously doubt if they were busted the excuse of “it was growing wild” would fly.

So can my company get in trouble for having wild marijuana plants growing on a field they own?

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Sounds like wild hemp.  I would spray it with Roundup or mow the area.


Don't invite the Man into your life.

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What is the difference in wild hemp and marijuana?

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They are both members of the C. Sativa species.  Wild hemp is grown for its fiber, while cultivated marijuana has been bred for its psychoactive components.

Think dog.  Mutts and purebreds are both members of the same species, but are useful for different things.  It just takes a lot more care to produce a prize-winning purebred (and the puppies can bring a LOT more money.)  Difference is, you don't go to jail for breeding dogs...

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Oh yeah, involving the cops in your life is always a good idea.

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There's a reason it's called "weed".. There's probably salvia, datura and Jimson weed out there somewhere too..

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I'd get rid of them to be safe.

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During WWII it was common for farmers to grow hemp for a fiber crop.  It still grows wild as a weed all over the midwest.  I have seen it all over the place in Kansas.





You could smoke 5 pounds of it and not get high.

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Is MJ, the product, the leaves or flower or both?  

Do the leaves have THC in them, or are they just extra stuff?

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It's usually the name given to the stuff that's sold, which is the flower of the plant. Leaves are usually trimmed off when harvested. While leaves do contain some THC, it's in much smaller quantities.

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Is MJ, the product, the leaves or flower or both?  

Do the leaves have THC in them, or are they just extra stuff?

Hashish consists of the THC-rich resinous material of the cannabis plant, which is collected, dried, and then compressed into a variety of forms, such as balls, cakes, or cookie-like sheets. Pieces are then broken off, placed in pipes and smoked. The Middle East, North Africa, and Pakistan/Afghanistan are the main sources of hashish.

September 2, 2004 - Washington, DC, USA



Washington, DC: Approximately ninety-nine percent of all marijuana eradicated by the Drug Enforcement Administration's (DEA) Domestic Cannabis Eradication/Suppression Program in 2003 was feral hemp-not cultivated marijuana, according to figures recently published online by the Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics.

According to the DEA data, of the estimated 247 million marijuana plants destroyed by law enforcement in 2003, more than 243 million were classified as "ditch weed," a term the agency uses to define "wild, scattered marijuana plants [with] no evidence of planting, fertilizing, or tending." Unlike cultivated marijuana, feral hemp contains virtually no detectable levels of THC, the psychoactive component in marijuana, and does not contribute to the black market marijuana trade.

NORML Foundation Executive Director Allen St. Pierre criticized the program for spending millions of taxpayers' dollars eradicating hemp. "Hemp is grown legally throughout most the Western world as a commercial crop for its fiber content, yet the US government is spending taxpayers' money to target and eradicate this same agricultural commodity," he said, noting that many of today's current hemp plots are remnants of US-government subsidized crops that existed prior to World War II. "Virtually all wild hemp goes unharvested and presents no legitimate threat to public safety. As such, it should be of no concern to the federal government or law enforcement."

According to DEA figures, Indiana led all 50 states in the volume of ditchweed eradicated, destroying more than 219 million plants. Oklahoma law enforcement eradicated some 10 million plants, and Missouri destroyed an estimated 4.5 million. More than half of all states failed to report their ditch weed totals.

California led all 50 states in the number of cultivated plants eradicated in 2003, with the DEA citing nearly 1.2 million plants destroyed.

Begun in 1979, the Domestic Cannabis Eradication/Suppression Program allocates federal funds to law enforcement agencies in all 50 states for the purpose of uprooting marijuana. For 2003, DEA data indicates that 8,480 arrests were derived from law enforcement raiding over 34,000 outdoor plots, and over 2,600 indoor gardens.




Domestic Marijuana           Number of marijuana
Plant Eradication (2003)    plants eradicated
1.) California                   1,181,957
2.) Tennessee                 697,105
3.) Kentucky                   527, 775
4.) Hawaii                       392,422
5.) New York                   99,423
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46.) South Dakota            340
47.) Delaware                  200
48.) Vermont                   173
49.) Rhode Island             76
50.) Wyoming                  33

Domestic Hemp                  Number of hemp
Plant Eradication (2003)    plants eradicated
1.) Indiana                      219,124,925
2.) Oklahoma                   9,995,153
3.) Missouri                     4,489,850
4.) North Dakota              3,200,000
5.) Minnesota                  3,095,172

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They are both members of the C. Sativa species.  Wild hemp is grown for its fiber, while cultivated marijuana has been bred for its psychoactive components.

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It's ditchweed. The only thing that it can do is make some people break out due to allergies.

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It's ditchweed. The only thing that it can do is make some people break out due to allergies.

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Yup. Hemp won't get you high no matter how much you might smoke. But it looks like pot. So it's illegal.

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I'll add a liitle more to this hemp falls under Sativa family of cannibus(sp?), it's grown for fiber because the resin is CTHC which has very little psychactive properties. . Marijuana can either be Sativa or Indica or a cross between both, THC is the main resin the plant secretes. Sativa generally grows faster and taller, usually lighter green in color with thinner longer leaves. Sativa can grow up to 16 feet tall. Indica doesn't grow as tall usually 6 feet max; has shorter, fatter leaves. Indicas are very dark green with almost a purple tint to them.

If the plants in question have longer thinner leaves, lighter green in color, growing in clumps; most likely it's wild hemp. If the plants are darker green with medium to thick "fingers" on the leaves, then most likely you have found someone's stash. Either way get rid of it. The government is the past have gone after people for cultivating weed when it was wild hemp growing on thier property.

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Oh yeah, involving the cops in your life is always a good idea.

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There's a reason it's called "weed".. There's probably salvia, datura and Jimson weed out there somewhere too..

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I'd get rid of them to be safe.

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It's usually the name given to the stuff that's sold, which is the flower of the plant. Leaves are usually trimmed off when harvested. While leaves do contain some THC, it's in much smaller quantities.