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Additionally, one of the big cash crops of KY has been Tobacco, at least until the Fed started heavily subsidizing corn and penalizing farmers who grow too much tobacco.

Tobacco looks very similar to marijuana and many farmers would have small bits of marijuana dispersed amongst several hundred acres of Tobacco.

Source: born and raised in KY. Left to join the US Army and then work in LA and Chicago as a software engineer.

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Does not look similar other than they are both plants with green leaves.

that was my same thought too, if you ever saw a tobacco leaf and a Marijuana leaf. Even the green shade is pretty different. Now, the Castor Oil Plant[1], which is planted for it's oil, can be confused with marijuana from distance to the untrained eye.

1- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricinus

Looks similar in 200 acres of tobacco. I’ve seen it :)

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