The Garden Club Goes Astray

Apparently, at one meeting, the garden club went astray. At a meeting in the early 1970s, they invited the local drug cop from the Beaufort Police Department to give a presentation to the Garden Club on the evils of marijuana. He lit a joint for them to smell, so if their little darlings came home smelling like weed, they’d be able to recognize the aroma and know what their children had been up to. One of the members of the club, a lady who we’ll refer to as Marigold, somehow convinced the policeman to let her take what was left of the joint home with her because her housekeeper also had teenage daughters, and she wanted her to be able to recognize the smell, too.