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"There was marijuana growing in ten acres of cornfield and some in the barn."

Well, let's agree that there was a cornfield of 320 acres. And that marijuana was growing in ten acres of that 320 acres.

I'll concede that the article wasn't clear on exactly how much of that 10 acres was marijuana and how much was corn. I assumed all of that 10 acres was marijuana, since the chemicals used to control weeds in cornfields would also kill the marijuana. Hard, if not impossible, to mix the two.

But, maybe he didn't use chemicals in that section for that very reason. Fine. Maybe there was less than ten acres of actual marijuana plants.

But when they say an estimated 250 pounds, I assume they mean an estimated 250 pounds. Where do you get "some" from that, or why do you say it was "bogus"? Wishful thinking, or did you read something the rest of us didn't?

I assumed all of that 10 acres was marijuana, since the chemicals used to control weeds in cornfields would also kill the marijuana. Hard, if not impossible, to mix the two.

I'm not a farmer, but I do live in farm country and am somewhat familiar with the chemicals and methods used, and I don't find your conclusion consistent with the information I have. Can you provide a source to back up that assertion?

Robert:

Look, people grow pot mixed in with corn all the time. That's one of the ways people try to hide it. I've seen case after case where pot has been found growing in cornfields.

Think about it, if he was growing ten acres of pot, there would be a lot more than 250 pounds. Oh and look at this:

"FARWELL –– After more than a two-year ordeal, a Parmer County jury Thursday found Ronnie Puckett, 47, innocent of possession of marijuana, a charge that came after police found an estimated 250 pounds of the drug on his Lazbuddie farm in October 2001.

His fight continues, however, to keep the state from seizing his land.

Puckett was arrested on June 14, 2002, after an investigation into the cultivation of marijuana plants on about 10 acres of cornfield. Police also seized marijuana from a barn on the property."

That's straight from the article. Nowhere does it say that they found more than an estimated 250 pounds of marijuana, total. It does not say that they found 10 acres of pot plants and another 250 pounds in the barn. There wasn't a ten acre "pot field." There was a ten acre cornfield that had pot in it, on it, however you want to say it. It wouldn't have been a cornfield if it was all pot.

The reason I say that the "estimated" number might be bogus is because the fact of the matter is that law enforcement uses bogus numbers all the time when they report their "big scores." They almost always over-value the drugs they have seized and they almost always say that every plant they find will yield a pound, no matter how small, whether it's male, female or sex undetermined, no matter the variety of marijuana or whether it's being grown indoors or outdoors. That's why the two hundred dollars worth of pot some kid might have growing in his closet under shop lights will often be reported in the newspaper as being worth $20,000.00 or some other rediculous made-up figure. This is standard police practice. I see it all the time.