Congressional Candidate Busted For Growing Marijuana

Democratic congressional candidate Florence ‘Flo’ Matheson was busted by police for possessing marijuana last Friday.  Police raided Matheson’s home in Crossville, Tennessee and found a full-scale cultivation operation in a barn in her backyard. Thelastamericanvagabond.com reports: The structure was separated into two tropical grow environments housing over 180 plants, complete with grow lights and a remote wireless surveillance system – a setup that probably cost thousands of dollars in monthly electric bills to maintain. Additionally, police found two ounces of pot, a pistol, a handful of cash and evidence of another illegal grow operation inside her home. Her response to this discovery was confident denial: “I had never seen [the marijuana grow] … I never went back there.” Apparently Flo rented out the barn to a disabled veteran friend of hers named Stephen Harrington, who needed a place to stay. They had an arrangement – he fixed things up around her house, and in return he could use the barn out back. Flo maintains that she had no idea that copious amounts of weed were growing right in her backyard. But she did own up to the pot found inside her home: “I don’t feel bad about breaking a bad law. I smoke [...]