Police Weeds Out Marijuana From Mall Planting Bed

BOULDER - Police officer Mike Pease can tell the difference between
tulips and marijuana.

Pease plucked a handful of marijuana plants from a tulip garden on the
Pearl Street Mall as dozens of passersby watched.

While Pease spent 10 minutes weeding out the weed, pedestrians pulled
out cameras and snapped pictures.

Pease said marijuana plants typically have five to seven leaves, like
the plants he dug up Friday. He said it's possible somebody planted
the suspected drug, and he said he uprooted it so that nobody gets
it.

"It will be placed into property and evidence and labeled for
destruction," Pease said. "We don't know who the owner is, so no
charges will be brought against anybody," said Pease.

"This is so funny. This is hilarious. This is so Boulder," said Erika
Kriksciun, a graduating senior at Boulder Fairview High School.