If you against recreational use of cannabis or not, this story has to make you laugh.
Per NY Post
Cops hauled several garbage bags full of marijuana out of a Bronx building after firefighters responding to a Saturday night blaze there discovered massive drug garden.
Smoke eaters found the illicit nursery while responding to a fire at the Chatterton Avenue building near Olmstead Avenue around 11:30 p.m.
The FDNY alerted police to the illegal grow operation, and cops who showed up took several people into custody.
One person, Alberto Martinez, 65, was arrested and charged with possession of more than 10 pounds of marijuana.
A team of cops wearing masks filled several huge garbage bags with weed and loaded it into a police van as evidence.
Residents who live in the area were evacuated from their homes as firefighters worked to vent the marijuana smoke from the building, which is just steps away from a day care center, but were later allowed to return to their homes, officials said.
Neighbors were surprised such a thing could be going on right under their noses, said one longtime block resident.
“Here? That’s surprising. I lived here for 46 years. I did not know that was going on down there,” said Juan Hernandez, 82. “I would always see two to three people in front of the building. I said ‘Hi,’ they said ‘Hi,’and I kept walking. I never smelled marijuana coming from the basement.”