Couple sue after insurance agent tells police their hibiscus plants were pot

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6. No, kidding. Seriously, that guy is fired.

And good luck (not really!) finding a new one in that field. I used to be in property and casualty insurance. Turning clients in to the police for suspicious plants is neither a job nor a license requirement. In fact, I wonder if his actions could somehow have violated state licensing ethics.

Btw, prick that he obviously is, that agent may not have been bizarrely unclear about what cannabis looks like. Some perennial and wild hibiscus foliage does look a lot more like that than it does its distant relative, tropical shrub hibiscus. The former can be grown in PA gardens, the latter (which is shown in the picture in the article linked) cannot.

This is perennial hibiscus variety developed and marketed for "purple" foliage, but note the deeply cut leaves and loose, lacy habit.