{"id":678,"date":"2012-09-08T07:52:22","date_gmt":"2012-09-08T07:52:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marijuana.net\/?p=19864"},"modified":"2012-09-08T07:52:22","modified_gmt":"2012-09-08T07:52:22","slug":"farmer-accidentally-grows-marijuana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/farmer-accidentally-grows-marijuana\/","title":{"rendered":"Farmer Accidentally Grows Marijuana"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 0 5px 5px;float:right;height:100px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/farmer-accidentally-grows-marijuana\/\" send=\"true\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div><p><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"258\" height=\"195\" src=\"http:\/\/www.marijuana.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/marijuana-farmer.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"marijuana farmer\" title=\"marijuana farmer\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-19866\" href=\"http:\/\/www.marijuana.net\/news-and-articles\/farmer-accidentally-grows-marijuana\/attachment\/marijuana-farmer\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-19866\" title=\"marijuana farmer\" src=\"http:\/\/www.marijuana.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/marijuana-farmer-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>If someone plants tulips instead of roses they may be disappointed at the results.\u00a0 However, one would not likely be subjected to police scrutiny and possible criminal prosecution.\u00a0 A man in Germany made a more serious mistake with his planting.\u00a0 An elderly farmer planted marijuana seeds instead of sunflowers.\u00a0 He was very surprised to see the plants grow to 10 feet tall so quickly but did not seem to know they were marijuana plants.\u00a0 Locals noticed the plants and notified authorities.\u00a0 Police came and made the man plough the field.\u00a0 Officials believed that the cannabis was weak and would not have led to &#8220;addiction&#8221;.\u00a0 Authorities are still trying to determine whether or not to press charges.\u00a0 Under German law it is illegal to &#8220;knowingly&#8221; grow marijuana.\u00a0 It would seem the 74 year old farmer easily fits the description of unknowingly growing the cannabis plants.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/id\/48908744\" target=\"_blank\">For more on this story click here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"258\" height=\"195\" src=\"http:\/\/www.marijuana.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/marijuana-farmer.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"marijuana farmer\" title=\"marijuana farmer\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-19866\" href=\"http:\/\/www.marijuana.net\/news-and-articles\/farmer-accidentally-grows-marijuana\/attachment\/marijuana-farmer\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-19866\" title=\"marijuana farmer\" src=\"http:\/\/www.marijuana.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/marijuana-farmer-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>If someone plants tulips instead of roses they may be disappointed at the results.\u00a0 However, one would not likely be subjected to police scrutiny and possible criminal prosecution.\u00a0 A man in Germany made a more serious mistake with his planting.\u00a0 An elderly farmer planted marijuana seeds instead of sunflowers.\u00a0 He was very surprised to see the plants grow to 10 feet tall so quickly but did not seem to know they were marijuana plants.\u00a0 Locals noticed the plants and notified authorities.\u00a0 Police came and made the man plough the field.\u00a0 Officials believed that the cannabis was weak and would not have led to &#8220;addiction&#8221;.\u00a0 Authorities are still trying to determine whether or not to press charges.\u00a0 Under German law it is illegal to &#8220;knowingly&#8221; grow marijuana.\u00a0 It would seem the 74 year old farmer easily fits the description of unknowingly growing the cannabis plants.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/id\/48908744\" target=\"_blank\">For more on this story click here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[52,308,468,77,9,51,70,1,3,61],"tags":[2632,2886,3042,2655,2631,5,6],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}