Workers remove dozens of apparent marijuana plants from Wisconsin Capitol tulip garden

MADISON, Wis. – Someone’s plans to reap dozens of apparent marijuana plants grown at the Wisconsin state Capitol grounds have long past up in smoke.

The plants sprouted in a tulip garden out of doors the Capitol, WMTV-TV reported Thursday.

Tatyana Warrick, a spokeswoman for the state Department of Administration, advised The Associated Press in an electronic mail Friday that employees had got rid of the plants, however that her company could not decide in the event that they have been marijuana or hemp. Both are paperwork of hashish, however handiest marijuana has the compound that will get folks prime.

Warrick did not reply to questions on how the plants would possibly have made it into the garden.

University of Wisconsin-Madison botanist Shelby Ellison, who tested the plants for WMTV sooner than they have been got rid of, advised the station that they have been hashish plants. But she advised The Associated Press on Friday that she could not say for positive whether or not they have been marijuana or hemp.

She mentioned there have been dozens of the plants within the garden, suggesting any person planted them deliberately.

“It was just a large number of plants for it to be anything accidental,” Ellison mentioned.

Marijuana stays unlawful in all paperwork in Wisconsin. Assembly Republicans presented a invoice closing consultation that might have legalized marijuana for medical purposes, however they could not muster enhance amongst their state Senate opposite numbers and the measure by no means were given a listening to.