Word: carrozzi
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...fine garden that Antonio Carrozzi kept. There were tall, aggressive beanstalks. Jungles of pregnant tomato vines. Ears of corn like golden footballs. And out front, placed there to conceal the tempting vegetables from passersby, 300 spindly marijuana plants...
...didn't even know it could be smoked," Carrozzi said when North Tarrytown, N.Y., police harvested the offending shoots and planted a drug charge on the 57-year-old Italian immigrant. Indeed, Carrozzi, who speaks little English, did not even know it was marijuana. After a heart attack four years ago, Carrozzi testified at his trial last week, he visited his native village, Camarda in the Abruzzi Mountains and brought back a packet of canapa seeds. Camardans, he recalled from his youth, used canapa fibers to make thread and cloth. Its seeds are used in soups and candies...
Village Justice John B. Whalen gave Carrozzi a conditional discharge, freeing him "on the condition that you no longer grow marijuana." Replied Carrozzi: "No, no, never more in my life!" Mused his wife Ada: "Always I wondered why in America, where they have everything, they did not have canapa seeds. I look everywhere for them-even in the birdseed. How come, I wonder, they do not have? Now I know...
| 1 |