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28|November 2019
Slippery rock Gazette
Hiding in Plain Sight
Capitol Police in Montpelier, Vermont, discovered dozens of cannabis plants growing in the flower beds along a walkway at the Statehouse one morning this past July.
Police Chief Matthew Romei told NBC5 that it was unclear whether the more than 30 plants were marijuana or hemp, and they don’t know who planted them. But since there is no criminal case, officials don’t plan to have the plants tested.
“It’s legal to cultivate, but there are limits on where you can do it, and the Statehouse flower beds certainly aren’t one of those per- missible sites,” Romei said. “If there is a typical Vermont story,
this is probably it.”
Nice Chap, Brilliant Cake
Akindly grandfather, who just wanted to treat nurses at Warrington Hospital in Cheshire, England, for the good care given to a relative, unwittingly gave them a red velvet cake laced with cannabis.
According to Sky News, the man got the leftover cake from his grandson’s 18th birthday party and presented it to staff at the hospital. An unnamed staff mem- ber said three or four of the nurses were “off their faces” afterward, and another noted how “relaxed” they were. Cheshire police report- edly took away what remained of the cake after the incident. How the constables “destroyed” the cake, and whether they had ice cream with it, is the real question.
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Bright Idea
People in the United Arab Emirates depend heavily on expensive desalination for drinking water. But an Emirati businessman has a novel idea for providing fresh water to the Arabian gulf.
Abdulla Alshehi wants to “bor- row” an iceberg from Antarctica, EuroNews reported in May. For six years, Alshehi has been working on a plan to tow an iceberg, as much as 1.25 miles long and a third of a mile wide, the entire 5,500 miles to the UAE coast. He estimates the
journey will take 10 months and the iceberg may lose about 30 percent of its mass, but Alshehi believes its presence could provide drinking water to about 1 million people for about five years. And that’s not all. “It’s expected that the presence of these icebergs may cause a weather
pattern change (and) attract more rain to the region,” he said.
A trial run this year will move a smaller iceberg, at a cost of $60 million to $80 million. Alshehi be- lieves the cost of the larger project will be between $100 million and $150 million. (Source, EuroNews)
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