Police Weed Out Exhibition

[Oz]

Stockholm: A Swedish art exhibit featuring cannabis plants may have to be cancelled after police confiscated the plants in a drugs bust.

 

The exhibition was to open on Saturday in the university town of Lund and titled Counterclockwise Circumambulation, was partially destroyed when police cut the plants to take them away as evidence, artist Sture Johannesson said.

 

The plant is grown in the region for its fibres and Swedish media said Johannesson's hemp was not the type used by smokers.

 

He could replace the plants, but said they had already begun to grow back.

 

"They will have to come back on a regular basis to prune," he said.

 

By TMVS

Date: 07/05/04

Source: STUFF

Copyright: Fairfax New Zealand Limited 2004

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[calyx]

I would be into art a lot more if we had exhibitions in Australia like this one. - CALYX.