Police find a football-field-sized jungle of weed in London
While the debate on legalization continues in the United States, some home growers are not waiting for a law to let them profess their green-thumb "hobby" and just plant weed wherever they find the right spot. This is what the police were surprised to find in South London, where a football field-sized forest of weed had been planted in an open space, hidden from the surrounding vegetation.
Kingston Police called to a few cannabis plants. We found a forest!#CannabisTrees#TheseArentXmasTrees#WeedKillerpic.twitter.com/TfNyFZF9Ft
— Kingston Police | #StayAlert (@MPSKingston) September 25, 2015
The police announced their discovery on Twitter and showed photos of the five-foot-tall plants. According to PC Sarah Henderson in her interview with The Guardian, the plants looked like a small forest of Christmas trees and was complete with a gazebo. She also added:
"Whoever set this up used a really remote spot. The only way to get there was a 20-minute walk through wasteland. But all their time, trouble and gardening skills will go unrewarded, as the whole lot will now be destroyed by police."
Police called to ‘small number of cannabis plants’ find forest 'the size of a football pitch' http://t.co/fcfymMGTDypic.twitter.com/s2OZRLHndg
— Evening Standard (@standardnews) September 25, 2015
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