This plant isn't dope, you dopes
This plant isn't dope, you dopes:
Fri, September 18, 2009
By JOE BELANGER, LONDON FREE PRESS
It may look like wacky tobacky, but the only kick you’ll get off this bud is sick.
Stratford Police have issued a public alert after reports of people – “adults and youth” – helping themselves to a crop of commercial hemp that looks like marijuana but instead of delivering a high can make users “violently ill” with severe headaches, nausea and vomiting.
The crop, located just south of the Festival Marketplace Mall off C.H Meier Blvd., has become the target of thieves, police say.
“People, both adults and youth, have been going onto the property and stealing the crop, thinking it is marijuana,” said Insp. Sam Theocharis.”
“Our biggest concern is from a public-safety standpoint. Hemp is not meant for ingestion and the user will become violently ill and may very well require hospital care.”