Never take your kids to an NBA game
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My guess would be that the girl was drugged and quickly removed.
But it makes me think of a common garden landscape plant often seen in the Dallas area nursery trade, Brugmansia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brugmansia, which is a potent knock-out drug often used in south America to intoxicate and rob/kidnap the unsuspecting.
That stuff grows very well in yards all over Texas.
The sheer amount of overtly poisonous and/or maliciously-usable plants that are grown all over for "aesthetics" is something I just can't quite get. Like, sure, if you want to kill all the neighborhood rats, raccoons, dogs, and children, then yeah, grow massive bushes of brightly colored berries that'll kill a full-grown adult.
Not saying there should be a law against it categorically, but I know in my area, if marijuana grows in my garden, I'm in trouble. If poison ivy is being purposefully grown in my garden, I'm in trouble. But foxglove? Perfectly fine. High or itchy bad, dead as a doornail good. Gardening laws make no sense at all.
I don't know. A plant is a plant. It should depend on what your intention in growing it is. I'd feel bad for someone's pet getting poisoned by a strange bush, but most wild animals know what to eat or not especially if it's a local variety.
I don't like the idea of the government telling me not to grow a plant, even if it's marijuana or coca leaves. Same for poison ivy. I can understand there being liability if it's an unfenced garden, with no warning signs. Otherwise assume I have landmines buried in my yard and stay the hell off my property.
Agreed, the fact that gardening laws exist is stupid.