POT? WHAT TO DO . . .

ST-EUGENE - When a Plantagenet woman went berry picking last year, she came
across an illegal crop -- a marijuana plot.

"We called the police, but there was no satisfactory resolution," her
husband said at a meeting on all-terrain vehicles last Wednesday in
St-Eugene. "Two ladies in a car arrived but they didn't want to get out."

Prescott County Ontario Provincial Police detachment commander Inspector
Joffre Dupuis conceded, "It is a difficult situation to control and
enforce," adding that police are short on resources. "We are woefully
equipped," he told the meeting, relating that the detachment is hoping to
acquire two all-terrain vehicles. "We can't be everywhere all the time."

Citizens who come across pot-growing operations should be wary of booby
traps. "And in some cases, razor blades have been hidden in the stalks so
officers have cut their hands when they tried to remove the plants," said
Dupuis. A special drug eradication unit handles most such seizures. "Call
us. If you can, get a licence plate number," suggested Dupuis.