A southwestern Pennsylvania grandmother testified that she wasn’t attempting to grow marijuana and that she only wanted something to look nice next to her tomato plant.
67-year old Alberta Kelley of Fayette Country was charged with drug possession and manufacturing, but was acquitted by a jury of her peers. She testified that she merely tossed a handful of seeds into her garden, after a bearded stranger gave them to her.
Kelley was charged by Connellsville police a year ago, after they received a tip that her garden contained marijuana plants. Investigators say they found seven “well-cultivated”, four foot tall marijuana plants.
Kelley claimed she didn’t know what she was growing and that she had been given the seeds by a stranger. She’d thought they were flower seeds.
Kelley told TV station WTAE that to her, “weeds are weeds.” That may be so, but we all know to the law, that’s a whole different story.
