Heavily armed drug cops raid retiree’s garden, seize okra plants

A Cartersville man is upset after he said investigators mistook a garden full of okra for marijuana plants. The man growing the popular Southern food said a helicopter woke him up Wednesday and then he had deputies show up at his door. "I was scared actually, at first, because I didn't know what was happening,” said homeowner Dwayne Perry. All he noticed was that there was a chopper sitting unusually low over his house, then Bartow County deputies and a K-9 unit appeared at his doorstep in minutes. "They were strapped to the gills,” Perry said. It turned out, that helicopter was from the Governor's Task Force for drug suppression and they were out looking for domestic cannabis plants and spotted the tree and plants. "Instead, it's okra and maybe a bush on the end of the house,” Perry said...more

I understand boiled marijuana is a huge problem, LOL.