2nd Grader's 'Special Medicine' Story Leads to Pot Bust

NBC Connecticut ^ | Feb 25, 2016

[nickcarraway]

An 8-year-old boy said he helped his mother's boyfriend grow "special medicine that can cure anything at all," The Times-Argus reports

A second-grader's story about helping a farmer grow "special medicine" plants led to the bust of an indoor marijuana growing operation in Vermont, authorities said.

According to an affidavit, an 8-year-old boy told school officials and Windsor police detective Jennifer Frank that he helped his mother's boyfriend, 54-year-old Steven Mann, grow "special medicine that can cure anything at all," The Times-Argus reports.

Police said they found 50 marijuana plants worth $75,000, along with two "grow rooms" next to the child's bedroom and other drug-related items.

[DesertRhino]

I remember when I was young, hearing these horror stories about how the Nazis would encourage children to inform on their parents.

Disgusting.

[Fhios]

Reminds me of a line from the movie Tequila Sunrise. 50 plants with a street value of $75,000. Well I would like to know where that street is.

[Texas resident]

Little kids are brutally honest.

[dainbramaged]

50 plants worth 75K? Typical cop lies after a bust.

[nickcarraway]

This kid was not 'encouraged' to inform on his parents. His mother's boyfriend said stuff to this child, and as children are wont to do, he repeated.

So this mother makes her child an unpaid laborer for a sleazebag criminal and that doesn't concern you?

[PGR88]

another “mom’s boyfriend” story. I see a lot of “mom’s boyfriend” stories revolving around some weird shit happening to the kids involved.

Its just a sign of the times.

[stinkerpot65]

“Oh, no”, said the dwarves. “This is ‘special’ medicine.”. So Snow White smoked a large doobie of Special Medicine. She fell into a deep sleep.

Later, she woke up, ate three bags of Nacho Cheese Doritos, and joined a biker gang.

[Talisker]

So this mother makes her child an unpaid laborer for a sleazebag criminal and that doesn't concern you?

Lol, you need to generalize more. And put in some hystrionics, too. Otherwise people will think you support shooting up kindergartners with heroin.

[nickcarraway]

What did I say that was inaccurate?

[DesertRhino]

Doesn’t concern me much at all. The teacher or cop should have told the child about it not being polite to talk about family things. Then the teacher or cop should have had a polite man to man talk with those parents and let them know the cat is out of the bag, and that its time to wrap up that little enterprise or move to Colorado.

But using the kid as an unwitting informant is trash. That’s precisely what Soviets and Nazis and Khmer Rouge specialized in.

[TigersEye]

Gosh, Bernie, Vermont isn’t very progressive is it?

[TigersEye]

Unpaid laborer? LOL

How do you know he was unpaid? Maybe he got all the Ben & Jerry’s he could eat!

[Timpanagos1]

Cops pay way too much for drugs.

[Hugin]

Sounds like the kid is learning stuff from this. First he learned how to grow plants. Now he’s learning to never talk to the cops.

[nickcarraway]

But you aren't concerned that the government can take away my earned income, to support the rights of people to smoke marijuana and not work. And then, in turn, vote for more socialism.

What are you going to do when you run out of producers to fund all your lifestyles?

[Pearls Before Swine]

How Soviet.

[kiltie65]

There was a little girl across the street who played with my little girl. And one day she laughingly told me her Mum and Dad kept grass clippings in a box under the bed. Things that make you go hmmmmmmmmm? I hope she never told her teacher.

[surroundedbyblue]

I wonder if you’d feel differently if the kid ratted out two muzzie parents building a bomb in their garage??

[ConservingFreedom]

I wonder if you'd feel differently if the kid ratted out two muzzie parents building a bomb in their garage??

Sure - bombs, unlike marijuana, are directly lethal when used as intended.