From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for July 31, 1987:
- About five Kansas Bureau of Investigation officers and 10 Douglas County Sheriff's officers had risen early today to converge on a marijuana operation south of Lawrence. The officials had uprooted about 540 plants in the well-tended plot about a mile east of Baldwin, removing the plants and the growing equipment found there. No people had been encountered at the site and no arrests had been made as of noon today. An object observed during air surveillance, thought to have been a tent, turned out to be a 500-gallon water tank for irrigation, with a plastic water pipe running the length of the sloping plot. Hoses, post hole diggers, a shovel, a rake, plant food, a mower, and a gasoline can were also seized as evidence at the site.
- Four Lawrence residents were among the 40 athletes from across Kansas scheduled to compete next week at the International Special Summer Olympic Games at South Bend, Indiana. Allen Ward, Todd Williams and Charles Atkins were on the Kansas softball team, while Barbara McEldowney was slated to compete in the tennis division. More than 4,700 athletes from 73 countries were to participate in the events, which were expected to draw from 150,000 to 200,000 spectators during the nine days of competition.
Comments
LeBo 9 months, 3 weeks ago
Sucks! My garden will not grow. But all natural weeds due! Thus the pun weed. Were any basketballs found during the bust?
malcolmkyle 9 months, 3 weeks ago
Prohibition has finally run its course: Our prisons are full, our economy is in ruins, the lives and livelihoods of tens of millions of Americans have been destroyed or severely disrupted, and what was once a shining beacon of liberty and prosperity has become a toxic, repressive, smoldering heap of hypocrisy and a gross affront to fundamental human decency.
Accordingly, it is now the duty of every last one of us to insure that the people who are responsible for this shameful situation are not simply left in peace to enjoy the wealth and status that their despicable actions have, until now, afforded them. Former and present Prohibitionists must not be allowed to remain untainted and untouched from the unconscionable acts that they have viciously committed on their fellow citizens. They have provided us with neither safe communities nor safe streets. We will provide them with neither a safe haven to enjoy their ill-gotten gains nor the liberty to repeat such a similar atrocity!
jhawkinsf 9 months, 3 weeks ago
Chill, dude. Peace.
RoeDapple 9 months, 3 weeks ago
My old Daddy-in-law keeps a concoction of bug and weed killer mixed up for his sprayer on the ATV. When he finds weed growing on his property he gives it a good spraying, especially when it is growing between crop rows. Sometimes it still gets harvested. Light 'em up boys! Enjoy!
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