Suburban Kansas City suddenly can’t water a pot plant without the sheriff showing up

More and more weed-growers in Johnson County are having their home-based bud operations foiled by industrious sheriff’s deputies, the Star tells us this morning. Tony’s Kansas City, A LOCAL BLOGGER!!!!!!, posits that the recession is driving broke suburbanites to grow and sell pot to keep their families afloat — which would be a very cool storyline if it only were true.

Sadly, the real story is way more annoying: Instead of investing in ways to fight the thousands of actually harmful crimes that happen in JoCo every year, the sheriff’s office has found new ways to crack down on harmless pot-growers.