Japanese jail bugged by marijuana plants

[nouseforaname]

A Japanese prison is scrambling to eradicate marijuana plants that keep sprouting up on its exercise ground, officials said.

 

The marijuana plants started sprouting at Abashiri Prison on Japan's northernmost island of Hokkaido about a year ago, said prison official Takeshi Okamura. He said officials plucked out as many as 300 marijuana plants and treated the ground last year, but several more sprouted again this year.

 

Prisoners reported them to the guards.

 

Officials believe the plants are wild.

 

"Apparently, somebody knew how to tell marijuana from other plants," Okamura said.

 

Local botanical experts concluded the marijuana seeds were inadvertently brought in with the soil used for the exercise ground, Okamura said.

 

"It's a headache," Okamura said. "This isn't a farm."

 

Abashiri Prison, about 1,000 kilometres (620 miles) northeast of Tokyo, currently has about 1,080 male inmates serving terms of up to eight years in prison.

 

 

August 29, 2007 - 5:05PM

http://www.smh.com.au/news/World/Japanese-...8067175369.html

[jimbojones5678]

Prisoners reported them to the guards.

Those guys deserve to stay in jail...

"Apparently, somebody knew how to tell marijuana from other plants,"

What are the chances of finding someone in jail that can identify a MJ plant...

 

Jimbo

[WantDaChronic]

what fucking idiots 300+ plants sprout and they report them to the guards instead of making a circle of inmates around the plants to protect them

[nouseforaname]

what i cant understand is these prisoners had a free supply of dope, rope and even oil.. um they could of burnt it off got the guards stoned scaled the fence with the rope and used oil to get rid of any dogs they used to track them lmfao.. but anyhow each to their own

[loylty gets u nothing]

roflmao

[Beans]

hahahaha

 

that is awesome!