Farmer unknowingly sows marijuana crop

The Prince District JFO Drug Unit recovered 1,250 marijuana plants from a Travellers Rest field recently. Police believe the plant seeds were unintentionally sown there.

Little did one East Prince farmer know that while he or she was planting this year’s crop, something of a more illegal nature was also being sown.

The Prince District JFO Drug Unit has made one of the largest marijuana plant seizures in the province’s history on Friday; recovering 1,250 marijuana plants from a field in Travellers Rest.

RCMP said the plants were interspersed with a legal commercial crop and consisted of both male and female plants.

They believe the plants were not planted there deliberately but are rather the result of a crop of nearby marijuana that went to seed, which was then blown onto the farmer’s property. The marijuana seeds were then worked into the soil when the land was tilled and eventually...

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