Pot Still Illegal, Even if It's Recycled!!

SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) - A pot grower in northern California is following nature's rules, if not the law. Workers who were sorting items at a San Jose recycling center last week found a large trash bag full of marijuana plants. The center collects leaves, tree limbs and other natural material for composting, but San Jose police say the plants won't end up that way. Instead they'll be held as evidence of a crime. Police say the marijuana could have come from anywhere in Santa Clara County. They don't know how much of the pot in the bag was sellable.

Pot has never been a really big issue in this country. Obliviously many Americans have been doing it for many years and it has always been loosely handled. The 60's and 70's were two decades where many people used pot on the regular and the law really never took it as a huge threat. This is why I can't understand why the police in California are trying to track down this pot-grower. Like there are not hundreds of more dangerous crimes being committed while they are on a hunt for someone who in my opinion is not that bad of a person. Honestly, many people in the U.S. smoke pot or have experimented with it in their lifetimes and you never here of anyone dying from a pot related incident. So people are going to smoke it no matter what at least the person who was growing it had the common decency to recycle it for composting, meanwhile there are plenty of high-class people who all supposedly abide by the law that don't recycle and contribute to the pollution of this earth. Basically I think it is ridiculous that the police are wasting their time looking for the person who recycled pot and not looking for all the rapist and murders out there.