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Keeping the world safe from harmless flora

A hunting club owner in Mississippi filed suit in federal court for damages resulting from a raid where local law enforcement, assisting the DEA raided the club and destroyed 500 kenaf plants, "a look-alike for marijuana and used as feed to attract deer."

The owner, who was leasing the land from a timber company and was not charged lists negligence, trespassing, invasion of privacy and defamation as grounds for the complaint. According to the article,

Africans grew kenaf as early as 6000 B.C., and within the last century it has been grown in India, Asia, Africa, the Near East and Latin America. U.S. farmers devoted about 12,000 acres to kenaf in recent years, mostly in Texas, Mississippi and Georgia.

Kenaf comes in two varieties: One with leaves that resemble marijuana, the other with heart-shaped leaves similar to the hibiscus plant, a kenaf cousin.

Unsurprisingly the crime lab has not made the results of the chemical analysis public although the raid was conducted last September.

Your tax dollars at work.