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Monday, September 25. 1972
University Daily Kansan
Officials Planted Marijuana Here
The marijuana growing along the sides of country roads and bordering various creeks and wheat fields throughout Douglas County, which was planted by the United States government during World War II.
It was planted because the government believed that the supply of Indian hemp which was grown to make rope, would not be available.
Kansas marijuan looks like Mexican marijuan, but it is actually a hybrid plant developed to produce a high fiber content and a low THC content. THC is the hulianzeolene chemical in
An 18-month study by Benny Eaton, assistant professor of agronomy at Kansas State University, finds that marijuana "only has five to ten per cent of the potency of Mexican marijuana."
THE STUDY, which was sponsored by an $80,000 federal grant through the Governor's Committee on Criminal Administration, and the acres of marjana probably existed in Kansas.
It was believed that as much as 68,000 acres of marijuana grew in Kansas.
"If we can prevent seed production for two successive years we can eradicate
marijuana, Eaton said recently.
Limber, Limber, limber,
'Ai' the program to eliminate either
Kansas marjana fields or those
found in Douglas County.
Herschel Hemphill, Douglas County noxious weed controller, said Saturday that the legislature had neglected to classify marijuana as a noxious weed, and that as a result, his department had failed to request to do so by the sheerif department or by local farmers.
HEMPHILL ALSO said that marijuana was an "unusually hearty plant" and that efforts to eradicate it often were useless.
He said he sprayed marijuana
killed "almost all broadleaf plants"
the immediate vicinity,
the intermediate also
on broadleaf plants.
"One of the main reasons the county doesn't attempt to control the growth of marijuana in the state, and state governments are not sure in their minds just how big it could be controlled," he said.
Hempill said that he sprayed small patches free, but that he sprayed a couple of times to pay one-half the cost of the spray and an hour, life can spray a place at once.
Mike Elwell, Douglas County attorney, said Sunday that Douglas County did not intend to
initiate a large-scale control program at this time.
Ray Charles, blues artist, will be featured at KU's Homecoming concert Oct. 28, according to Mike Miller, Pittsburgh graduate student Union Academy (GUA) SUA is sponsoring the concert.
Ticket prices have not been decided, Tiller said, and will be determined after a second performer has been signed.
"I ASSUME we will wait and see how successful other programs are before we try and initiate such a program. We don't want to spend a lot of money and not accomplish anything." he
SUA will order tickets by the end of the week, Miller said, but a date for ticket sales has not been decided.
"IT PROVIDES a financial basis for people to continue dealing other types of drugs, it's a moneymaker for the people who need it." The company said "It may not be of a good quality and there isn't a market for it and some of the people who are cutting and processing it in large quantities, I assume, would have quoted quite a bit of money off of it."
Cassity said that everything 'from flame throwers to defolants' had been tested in an effort to find the best way to eradicate the plant.
Although the Kansas marijuana is not potent, it does contribute to the Lawrence drug problem. Elwell said.
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Robert Cassity, Douglas Roberts, Katie Saturday the patches of her garden growing along roads often were sprayed in the he added that "they are now possible to control because 'it grows just about everywhere in the yard.'"
Aretha Franklin was contacted, Miller said, but the SUA could not come to a contractual agreement with her.
The Homecoming concert will be held a 4 p.m. in Allen Field House. The performer would appear with the band and the co-painters no contract had yet been signed.
"If you have a group that can process 300 pounds a week I would go going to get probably a minimum of $30-$50 a pound, and that turns into a lot of money. You're talking, I would think, about $8
"My figures could be off but I think that we had to people that are drying, curing and processing at least 300 pounds a day. Why they wouldn't be getting somewhere around $5 a pound."
Saturday one local harvester talked about harvesting marijuana.
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don't support myself by harvesting pots," he said. "I just live in Lawrence and use the fields to sell potatoes. I give a little pot, you sell it and it raises your income by about one-half. You don't need to support your drug habit. You sell a pound of Kansas pot and use the money you buy an ounce of good potting soil."
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THE HARVESTER said the amount an individual picked depended on "whether or not he wants to get rich, how hot he is and what implications his wants to be and how long he can cope with the tensions involved."
The harvester said that all that was needed to pick pot was, "good pair of hands, good night watch," and the harvester machete, several plastic garbage bags, a farm house and a key to harvester large quantities, he said.
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"Normal farm people hate druggies." be said.
The biggest "danger," the picker said, is being seen by farmers, who usually calls the sheriff.
DEPUTY CASSEY said tips from citizens accounted for one-third of all harvesting a lot. A lot of arrests, he said, are "just luck."
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Some of these harvesters aren't too cool about the way they do it. They just go out there and start cutting it and we walk right up on them.
Elwell said that people came into Lawrence from many states and that several groups of people from California were apprehended. The excavated maps indicating the location of Douglas County put fields.
Rex Johnson, Douglas County sheriff, said two units patrolled the not fields "around the clock."
The pot harvester said he was not worried about getting caught and said he thought the laws made marijuana "only affect those who are caught." He added, however, that President Nixon recently said he would "completely eliminate" crime for drugs in this country.
Johnson said persons aprehended harvesting marijuana usually were charged with "possession with intent to sell."
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Elwell said a study of harvesting arrests indicated "an interesting progression.
"We had one harvesting arrest in 1967 and about 20 in '68 and all others," he said. "For personal use. In '69 and '70 we moved into the 'buy-type case' where they start selling it, and where they start getting caught."
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