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Georgia Drug Warriors Raid Okra Grower, Looking for Marijuana
Reason ^ | October 3, 2014 | Jacob Sullum

Posted on 10/03/2014 2:40:47 PM PDT by bamahead

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To: bamahead
Was it this guy?


21 posted on 10/03/2014 3:04:20 PM PDT by Veggie Todd (The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. TJ)
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To: bamahead

Another SWAT team gone wild.


22 posted on 10/03/2014 3:08:09 PM PDT by Buffalo Head (Illigitimi non carborundum)
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To: Navy Patriot

“They should try some Oleander.”

Yeah, it would be their last “try,” wouldn’t it! This “war on drugs.’ is simply a war on the people by a bunch of morons with badges who draw a paycheck killing innocent people over an Effing plant. Legalize all of it, and offer absolutely no treatment for addiction. Use would be self-regulating.


23 posted on 10/03/2014 3:17:21 PM PDT by vette6387
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these doughnut munchers grew up in GA and don't know what okra looks like???

tooo many steroids i guess...

24 posted on 10/03/2014 3:18:54 PM PDT by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -vvv- NO Pity for the LAZY - 86-44)
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To: bamahead

My uncle’s mother stayed at the river in the summers. One summer day years ago, she heard a knock on the door & saw local LEO (who knew her) and whatever department was the pot eye in the sky.

They noticed marijuana growing in the yard and were there to investigate.

Whoops! It was her okra.


25 posted on 10/03/2014 3:24:19 PM PDT by Protect the Bill of Rights
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“I was just picking some okra to make some gumbo and then next thing I know, I thought ISIS was comin’ after me!”
26 posted on 10/03/2014 3:24:58 PM PDT by PATRIOT1876
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"But it did have quite a number of characteristics that were similar to a cannabis plant."

They are both green, grow in dirt and have stalks and leaves.

The family is fortunate they weren't machine gunned to death.


27 posted on 10/03/2014 3:26:49 PM PDT by Iron Munro (We can make it work with only one square per restroom visit -- Sheryl Crow)
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To: bamahead

You don’t understand.

This okra is 5 TIMES STRONGER than okra was in the 60s!

(So you only need 1/5 as much to make gumbo.)


28 posted on 10/03/2014 3:29:38 PM PDT by UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide (ISLAM DELENDA EST)
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To: bamahead

LEGALIZE medicinal okra!


29 posted on 10/03/2014 3:32:29 PM PDT by UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide (ISLAM DELENDA EST)
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“We’ve not been able to identify it as of yet,”

Does that we mean they LIED ON THE WARRANT??
Sounds like they should ALL BE FIRED and Prosecuted for their Terrorist Acts.


30 posted on 10/03/2014 3:33:38 PM PDT by eyeamok
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However, after identifying the plants as ‘Okra’ , the Georgia state police still insisted in asset forfeiture.


31 posted on 10/03/2014 3:37:02 PM PDT by Usagi_yo (Criticize, marginalize, demonize, criminalize.)
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To: Califreak

Sassafras root is used to make file in gumbo. Safrole is a compound made by the plant that is chemically similar to thujone (the active ingredient in absinthe). Safrole is regulated as an precursor to MDMA. So anyone raising okra must be up to no good...


32 posted on 10/03/2014 3:39:18 PM PDT by oblomov
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To: fruser1

“Should sue for 4th amendment violation.”

Better yet, elect a pro-2nd amendment, Constitutional sheriff in the county who can arrest the 30 IQ apes for civil rights violations who ordered this raid.


33 posted on 10/03/2014 3:40:12 PM PDT by sergeantdave
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To: Half Vast Conspiracy

If the warrant included "attempt to boil okra" I would have to consider supporting efforts to protect children from such horrid things.

34 posted on 10/03/2014 3:40:25 PM PDT by BlueDragon
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To: vette6387

Like the truism that “the sun rises in the East” it is also true that “there is no power the State will not abuse.


35 posted on 10/03/2014 3:41:01 PM PDT by Navy Patriot (America, a Rule of Mob nation)
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To: oblomov

No wonder I like Gumbo...


36 posted on 10/03/2014 3:43:18 PM PDT by Navy Patriot (America, a Rule of Mob nation)
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Stokes suggested that it still was not clear exactly what Perry was growing and that the cops' confusion was readily understandable. "We've not been able to identify it as of yet," he said. "But it did have quite a number of characteristics that were similar to a cannabis plant."

Get some high school kid taking an Ag class dumba$$, he'll show you that it's okra, probably with pictures and everything.

37 posted on 10/03/2014 3:46:02 PM PDT by The Cajun (Ted Cruz, Sarah Palin, Mark Levin, Mike Lee, Louie Gohmert....Nuff said.)
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To: bamahead

Idiots.

Okra! OMG!!! Fried Okra is sohhhhh Good, from Luby’s or Black Eyed Pea and Love’s.

But, the plants are completely dissimilar..


38 posted on 10/03/2014 3:48:17 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide

LOL!


39 posted on 10/03/2014 3:48:28 PM PDT by Liberty Valance (Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
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To: bamahead

Things that make you say “I can’t freakin’ believe it!”


40 posted on 10/03/2014 4:13:59 PM PDT by greeneyes (Moderation in defense of your country is NO virtue. Let Freedom Ring.)
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