Cannabis Plants Grew As Tall As Christmas Trees In Brooklyn

Carroll Gardens, NY Patch:

There was a time in Brooklyn's history when marijuana plants as tall as Christmas trees grew out in the open in vacant lots across the borough. From Avenue X to the banks of Newtown Creek, the plants grew in what a Brooklyn Eagle reporter described in 1951 as "lush impudence."

This forgotten botanical history was recently unearthed by Ben Gocker, a librarian at the Brooklyn Public Library's Brooklyn Collection. While searching through the archives for a patron, he found a folder marked "Crime: Drugs: Marijuana."

Read the whole story: Carroll Gardens, NY Patch

Comments

[shthar]

07:54 PM on 03/25/2011

Ditchweed.

All you get is a headache.

[Max Shaw]

04:50 PM on 03/25/2011

I long for those days to return.

[joebiteme]

01:39 PM on 03/25/2011

well it sure expalins the politics of NYC politicians

[moldy]

12:44 PM on 03/25/2011

Yeah, they grew like trees where I grew up too. One empty crop bank field had about 400 plants at 7-8' tall. Problem was that all of it was from "hemp for victory" fields which contained less than 1% THC. We had fun learning how to roll anyway.

[Chris Utzig]

12:47 PM on 03/25/2011

Still, hemp is ridiculously sustainable compared to many other plant fibers. Even if it only has 1% THC :-)

[moldy]

01:28 PM on 03/25/2011

Yeah, too bad cops and DEA agents can't tell the difference. ;-) What's crazier is they think growers would hide the good stuff in the middle of the fields. Silly rabbits, pollen from hemp would render the kind kind-less. Their motives are suspect to say the least.