Marijuana question

[MichiDem]

is there another plant that looks like pot that isn't pot?

How do you tell?

[Elidor]

1. There are weeds that strongly resemble wild marijuana

I'd tell you the surest way to tell them apart, but I think you're about to figure it out.

[Webster Green]

2. Nothing that is identical.....a couple kind of similar looking....

...with serrated leaves that look a little like pot, but the real thing is unlike anything else.

The leaves will be serrated and the leaf segments will be in odd numbered multiples like five, seven, nine, eleven, thirteen. The segments in the leaf increase in number from the older growth to the newer growth on the plant. The stem is hexagonal and hollow.

[MichiDem]

4. That stem thing should

help me. Hex is that 6 sides?

[mcscajun]

5. Hexagonal = 6-sided, yes.

:)

[Webster Green]

7. Yes, six sides..and fluted (grooves running along the length of the stem)

The main stem and the larger stems on the plant are hollow with a white pithy coating on the inside of the stem, but you would have to cut the plant to see that.

[MichiDem]

11. Is the leaf smooth

or fuzzy?

[Webster Green]

13. Smooth

Mature plants get sticky at the flowering ends of the stems.

[DS1]

3. Depends entirely on the investigating officer

If he knows you and likes you, then it must be something else ;-)

[tridim]

6. There are lots of plants that have similar leaves

If the plant you found is cannabis it wont be mature until the end of the summer anyway, so don't bother picking it.

[Jara sang]

8. In Hawaii they use Japanese Maple for training.

It looks just like marijuana from the air. The marijuana eradication project in Hawaii is called Operation Green Harvest. I've heard that they actually spray paint the young maples to make them look more like weed.


Japanese Maple

[MichiDem]

12. They use it for training...

...how do you mean?

[Jara sang]

15. The police use it for training

They put the Japanese maples someplace inconspicuous then see if they can spot them from helicopters.

[intheflow]

9. The cleome.

It's got the same narrow leaf layout, but without the serrated edges. I don't think it's related, but it's funky blooms smell a little like a sweet weed.

[Rowdyboy]

14. I've had SEVERAL people raise their eyes at my cleome...Once it blooms

its okay but until then its a little dicy.

[Mutley]

16. I have a young Cleome and it does look and smell a bit like marijuana.

And the flowers are pretty.

[FloridaPat]

10. Yes there is. It's grown here in Florida. I can't remember the name of

it, but it looks so much like marijuana that fields have been burnt with confused government agents. It doesn have some use, which is why so many were growing it. I'll try and find out what it is.

[Baclava]

17. Only one way to tell - smoke them...

...and let us know the results.