SECOND GRADER'S ASSIGNMENT LEADS TO POT BUST

A second-grade class in White River Junction, Vermont, was given the assignment to write a story. One 8-year-old boy wrote his story about helping a farmer grow “special medicine” plants. Upon questioning the boy, officials learned the boy got to help his mother’s boyfriend grow “special medicine that can cure anything at all,” and that people came to the house frequently. Police checked out the boy’s home and found two marijuana grow rooms with 25 plants next to the child’s bedroom. The boyfriend, Steven Mann, 54, pleaded not guilty this week in a White River Junction court to a felony count of cultivating cannabis.
* What about the false advertising part of “it can cure anything at all”?
* Steven Mann, taken down by The Man!
* It was supposed to be a creative writing assignment, not investigative journalism.
* For a math assignment, the kid was asked what kind of profit you could expect to make on 25 plants.
* At least he wasn’t helping make “giant grains of salt that you smoke in a pipe to get sleepy.”
* The boyfriend pleaded not guilty? So he IS stoned then.
* Let’s be fair. Maybe it’s the child’s grow operation and the kid just set Mom’s boyfriend up.
* Well, the grow rooms were right next to the kid’s bedroom.
* Ouch, imagine being convicted of a felony for this just as the Vermont senate legalizes recreational pot?