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UK: Woman unknowingly takes hemp plant to Gardeners' Question Time event
Ananova
Monday 24 Sep 2001 A gardener took a plant to a Gardeners' Question Time to learn she had been cultivating cannabis in her greenhouse. Pat Bush said the plant took root after she spilt bird seed then it virtually took over her greenhouse. She thought it was an unusual variety of tomato. Experts at Worcester Garden Centre confirmed the plant was cannabis hemp. "The plant came up through the soil of the greenhouse after I'd spilled some birdseed," she told the Worcester Evening News. "At first, I thought it was a seedling of a tomato plant. I started to water it and it looked like a poppy. But, when it grew so big that I was struggling to get into the greenhouse, I began to have my suspicions." She took it to the event at Worcester Garden Centre to ask the Question Time panel their advice on the plant and was told to destroy it because it was from the same genus as cannabis. The centre's director of gardens, Neil Gow, said: "Normally, really hot conditions are needed for this plant to grow. I think our favourable summer caused this to happen. "Although not a pure cannabis plant, I believe people could use it to smoke illegally."
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