By Sam Schulz
A German farmer unwittingly planted pot plants in his field, police told NBC News.
An elderly German farmer accidentally
planted more than 1,000 pot plants, mistaking their seeds for sunflower
seeds, police told NBC News on Wednesday.
Concerned neighbors alerted police in
the Bavarian town of Moembris to the one-acre field where the
74-year-old was growing cannabis in place of his usual potatoes, NBC News reported.
The cops told the man, whose name
they didn't release, to destroy the plants — which he did at their
insistence. It is a crime in Germany to knowingly grow pot plants.
"The friendly elderly gentleman was
surprised at the strange plants that had grown next to the flowers but
did not identify them as cannabis plants," a police statement said.
According to police, officials said
the leaves of the type of cannabis plants the man had accidentally
planted were too weak to be intoxicating. Still, the case was presented
to a local prosecutor so a judge could decide whether to file charges.
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