Feb172009
Pot grows BIG in Wisconsin
Filed under General, Photojournalism, humor by bob hammerstrom at 11:43 am
If you think those chunks of cheese are bige, worn on the heads of Green Bay Packers fans, you should see how big marijuana plants grow in the dairy state!
A La Crosse (Wis.) County Sheriff’s deputy proudly displays a huge marijuana plant confiscated along with a truckload of other plants from a field.
I shot this image in the mid-1980’s while a journalism student at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse. I was processing my black and white film, after shooting a freelance assignment for the La Crosse Tribune. Someone in the newsroom asked for a photographer to walk over to the County Sheriff’s Department to take a photo.
This sheriff’s deputy searched through the pile of pot plants and found this one. It was at least 10 feet tall.
Take a look at this video I produced for www.nashuatelegraph.comon Clayton Holton, a New Hampshire resident who smokes marijuana through a pipe to relieve his pain. He is an advocate for legalizing medical marijuana in the state. Holton smokes the pipe in the video.
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