Who planted cannabis in the Vermont Statehouse flower bed?

That's what KCBD asks.

It's a rather stupid question.

The answer is someone who smokes pot and with a sense of humor. And they didn't plant them, they simply dropped seeds into a State garden.

And if the pot is any good, if they're anything other than seeds from plants they grew themselves, then they also paid a small fortune to be funny. Top seeds go for $10.00 per seed.

Check it out, Checkitouters. [buy marijuana seeds]  Sample.

Ha ha ha. It looks like seeds dropped in among the lupus. Someone else tends their little garden.

It's a joke! They know the plants will be pulled out. They're making some kind of point. Something along the lines of the plant being a weed!

Well spotted, Weed-Picking-Person. 

Care to hear something a tiny bit funny and a greater part pathetic?

I came into work one day and passed a cluster of cubicles where a few analysts sat. They were four older ladies. I knew each one.  I smelled smoke so I walked into the cluster of desks separated by padded cloth walls. 

Looking back now I'm suddenly saddened. The whole thing a bit dehumanizing. Cubicles. Ugh.

The eldest of the women, a busybody I suppose, nobody liked her that much, there was little to like, but I did have a way with the difficult women, was burning a dry leaf from my false aralia. 

"That's a false aralia, plerandra elegantissima, an evergreen tree, not a cannabis plant, an annual herb. Were it cannabis then it wouldn't last long. Only one season." 

It means she saw the plant in my office, went in there one morning and took a leaf for her smoke-smell related experiment. That's the funny/pathetic part. She could have just asked.

It's an office plant. A good one. I had access to the  best plants. Thousands of them. A friend showed me how to access the greenhouses, talk to the people, make friends, and how to purchase them wholesale. So, at that time I was always buying the best office size plants. I had my choice of hundreds of any one type. And now I had my own office. And it needed a plant. 

Check 'em out, Checkemouters.

They vaguely resemble marijuana leaves but they're thinner. 

You can see how someone can be confused.

The vein pattern is different. 

If you can follow this, it's way scientific. Better to just burn it and smell it.

The leaves have a peculiar and diagnostic venation pattern that enables persons poorly familiar with the plant to distinguish a cannabis leaf from unrelated species that have confusingly similar leaves (see illustration). As is common in serrated leaves, each serration has a central vein extending to its tip. However, the serration vein originates from lower down the central vein of the leaflet, typically opposite to the position of, not the first notch down, but the next notch. This means that on its way from the midrib of the leaflet to the point of the serration, the vein serving the tip of the serration passes close by the intervening notch. Sometimes the vein will actually pass tangent to the notch, but often it will pass by at a small distance, and when that happens a spur vein (occasionally a pair of such spur veins) branches off and joins the leaf margin at the deepest point of the notch. This venation pattern varies slightly among varieties, but in general it enables one to tell Cannabis leaves from superficially similar leaves without difficulty and without special equipment. Tiny samples of Cannabis plants also can be identified with precision by microscopic examination of leaf cells and similar features, but that requires special expertise and equipment.

Here is their illustration. And it is kind of weird.