Let me just say, I've been to Madison more than once, and nothing about this story really surprises me.
Workers at the Wisconsin State Capitol discovered dozens of "apparent" marijuana plants sprouting amongst the tulip garden on grounds, and no one knows where they came from or who planted them.
Tatyana Warrick, a spokeswoman for the state Department of Administration, told The Associated Press in an email Friday that workers had removed the plants, but that her agency couldn't determine if they were marijuana or hemp. Both are forms of cannabis, but only marijuana has the compound that gets people high.
Warrick didn't respond to questions about how the plants might have made it into the garden.
I mean, if you go to Madison, you're going to smell pot. Especially in the downtown state capitol and the University of Wisconsin area. There's no telling what pranksters decided to plant these plants on capitol grounds, but there's no doubt in my mind that these plants didn't just pop up on their own.
University of Wisconsin-Madison botanist Shelby Ellison, who examined the plants for WMTV before they were removed, told the station that they were cannabis plants. But she told The Associated Press on Friday that she couldn't say for certain whether they were marijuana or hemp.
She said there were dozens of the plants in the garden, suggesting someone planted them intentionally.
'It was just a large number of plants for it to be anything accidental,' Ellison said.
Weed is still illegal in Wisconsin, for now, but like all major cities, the substance is everywhere.
And in Wisconsin, everywhere also includes the famous tulip garden at the capitol.
Or, it used to.
There's just one question investigators need to start with:
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