yah, old people don't get old by being stupid most of the time.. the stupid ones die off early in life, so i'm pretty sure that there is no way on gods green earth that they bought the japanese maple tree story.. that is unless your known to grow plants for the local nursery, lol..
i work with this lady who's son had just died of ass cancer and he had been an addict his whole adult life, and had even grown a few plants indoors from what she told me.. anyhoo's, one day she asks me if i know what a marijuana plant looks like... so i play it all, well, maybe, why? so she tells me that she thinks that her son must have planted one in her backyard before he died and its now growing in her backyard.. she had a pix of it on her phone and showed me.. it was a japanese maple and i told her so, but she friggin refused to believe me. she even came in like two days later saying that i was wrong and that her brother told her that it was a mj plant indeed.. now i know not to buy my weed from her brother, lol..