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I don't live in the city.

Yes, corn grows to 6 to 8 feet high.

Marijuana grows to 10 to 12 feet high. Think you could spot that from your front door?

Indiana corn grows a bit taller than Illinois corn I guess. I have no idea about pot plants. But corn in Tippeconoe County reaches 6-8 feet in June. By the time the detassling is done, it's a lot more like 9-11 feet.

"I don't live in the city.
Yes, corn grows to 6 to 8 feet high.

Marijuana grows to 10 to 12 feet high. Think you could spot that from your front door?"

I'm from a part of the country where quite a bit of pot is grown and I have represented more than a couple of people accused of growing it. There are strains of marijuana that grow less than two feet tall. Most of the more powerful varieties only grow to around four feet high. Some varieties of "sativa," as opposed to "indica," will grow over twenty feet. That's the Mexican type of lower quality pot and that's how tall they get by the time they are ready to harvest. These plants were found in June. They'd be a lot taller by November or December when they were ready to harvest. They would not even have started flowering yet and would have been much shorter than their final hieght at the time that they were found.

So, it is not true that all marijuana grows to 10 or 12 feet tall. It is quite likely that these plants were even shorter than the corn.

robertpaulsen wrote "Yes, corn grows to 6 to 8 feet high.
Marijuana grows to 10 to 12 feet high. Think you could spot that from your front door"

There's this nifty little trick called "topping", where one snips the top off of the plant cuasing it to stop its upward growth and become bushier. I learned that in Jr High. I'm sure the cultivator of the plants on this land, be it the farmer found not-guilty or someone else, probably knew of this trick too. I'm not saying that I know for a fact that they did this, but it's a possible scenario.