Stuff about Minneapolis

Wild marijuana is growing along railroad tracks and roadsides, in abandoned lots and open fields, along fences and beneath stop signs.

It’s not primo stuff, authorities say, but it’s more potent than the stuff once referred to as “ditch weed” decades ago. And it grows right here in the metro area.

The street value of wild marijuana is minimal compared with that of, say, B.C. Bud, the highly potent and high-priced marijuana that is believed to originate in British Columbia. “But it’s something that gets kids into mischief, or worse,” said Lynn Hagen, master gardener with the University of Minnesota Agriculture Extension Service in Anoka County.