A SUNY Cobleskill professor was arrested Wednesday for allegedly growing marijuana at his home.
Police executed a search warrant at 59-year-old Peter H. Van Deusen’s Sharon Springs home on State Route 10. There, they found an indoor growing operation and seized extensive growing equipment and a small amount of marijuana.
Van Deusen was not home at the time of the search, but turned himself in to troopers in Cobleskill Wednesday. He was issued an appearance ticket for the Town of Sharon Court Thursday.
He was charged with unlawful growing of marijuana, an unclassified misdemeanor.
Police say Van Deusen was a professor in the Agriculture and Engineering Division at SUNY Cobleskill.
Was? He’s a professor at SUNY at the beginning of the article, and has gone emeritus by the end? Wow.
And isn’t this like the four hundredth story UD‘s covered about a professor growing marijuana? Once pot’s legalized, expect a mass exodus from the universities…
January 17th, 2010 at 12:24PM
“Once pot’s legalized, expect a mass exodus from the universities…”
Maybe then some of those long-promised jobs will finally open up?
January 17th, 2010 at 2:22PM
Christopher: Exactly. Another argument for the legalization of pot.
January 19th, 2010 at 7:49PM
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