Subscribe | UPI Odd Newsletter Subscribe HOLIDAY, Fla., July 22 (UPI) -- Authorities in Florida said a woman arrested for allegedly growing a marijuana plant told deputies she only kept the plant because it was "cute." The Pasco County Sheriff's Office said a deputy passing by the Holiday, Fla., home of Jacqueline Moore, 55, Tuesday noticed a 2-foot-tall uprooted marijuana plant by the curb and asked Moore about it, the St. Petersburg (Fla.) Times reported Thursday. Advertisement Moore told the deputy she does not smoke marijuana and she received the plant as a "baby plant" from a neighbor a few months ago. The deputy quoted Moore as saying she kept the plant because it was "cute" and she put it on the curb with the trash because it was growing too big. Moore was arrested and charged with cultivation of marijuana. She was taken to the Land O'Lakes jail with bail set at $2,000.
