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From: michael anthony
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Subject: hibiscus raid
Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2004 23:50:41 +0000

By S.K. BARDWELL
Copyright 2004 Houston Chronicle

Meg Loucks/ Houston Chronicle
Blair Davis with his Texas Star hibiscus plant.

Landscape contractor Blair Davis was in his northwest Harris County
home

around 2 p.m. Tuesday when there was a knock at his door.

Davis said he hadn't even gotten his hand on the doorknob when it flew
open and he was looking at the barrel of a pistol.

Behind the gun were about 10 members of the Harris County Organized
Crime and Narcotics Task Force, who burst into the home, guns drawn,
and

began shouting at him to get down on the floor.

There on the floor, Davis said, it took a while to figure out that what
had caused the swarm of lawmen to descend upon him was the hibiscus in
his front yard.

That's right, hibiscus.

The foliage of the Texas Star hibiscus, a native plant that's growing
in

popularity, vaguely resembles that of marijuana.

But: "It's got white buds on it," Davis said. "Hello."

Davis had several of the plants in his yard, where he grows stock for
his business.

"They were in containers," he said: "I don't want to say potted
plants."

Evidently, some well-meaning but horticulturally challenged citizen
turned Davis in. Davis said the team of narcotics officers combed his
house for about an hour, at one point discussing whether red and gold
bamboo growing in his window might be marijuana. They also asked what
he

did with the watermelons and cantaloupes growing in his back yard.

"What would I do with them?" Davis said.

Finally the officers gave up and left, leaving Davis only a "citizen's
information card" with "closed-report" written on it.

"No apology, no nothing," Davis said. "I realize they have a job to do,
but this seems a little bizarre."

Calls to the task force were not returned Wednesday.

Davis hasn't let the episode put him off the Texas Star hibiscus. "It
tolerates heat and drought and our rains," he said. "It's a great
plant,

except for the police."

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