The Hongcouver | Someone has been illegally growing cannabis at the Vancouver City Hall community garden
Cannabis seedlings have been growing among the lettuce and hyacinths outside the municipal government headquarters in famously liberal Vancouver, where police routinely turn a blind eye to the drug
Vancouver’s famously tolerant attitude towards pot has been taken to the next level, in a city where police already routinely turn a blind eye to medical marijuana dispensaries and not-yet-legal-in-Canada public puffing.
Among the kale and chives at the community garden on the lawns of Vancouver City Hall, someone has been openly and illegally cultivating cannabis.
No effort was made to conceal the seedlings, about 20cm high. On Monday afternoon, the healthy looking plants were standing proud in two grey planter boxes in the centre of the garden.
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University of British Columbia adjunct professor in botany Jonathan Page confirmed that the distinctive-looking plants in photos provided by the South China Morning Post were cannabis.
Cannabis plants are seen at the Vancouver City Hall community garden, in British Columbia, Canada, on Monday April 24. Photo: Ian Young
“They are definitely cannabis plants though one cannot tell if they are drug type or hemp,” he said, distinguishing between plants with high and low levels of the drug compound tetrahydrocannabinol (THC). “It looks like the lower leaves have been trimmed,” added Page, who was the first scientist to sequence the cannabis genome and is the founder and CEO of cannabis-testing company Anandia Labs.
