Editor's Note: The timing of this news being released seems just a hair suspicious, with the vote to legalize marijuana in Oregon fast approaching. With nearly half the state (according to polls) in support of legalizing marijuana, it's likely this news won't have as much of a negative impact as it otherwise could (and actually, could this somehow endear her to pro-marijuana advocates?) , although growing marijuana would have been illegal at the time. But isn't part of drug policy reform not letting marijuana-related crimes ruin people's lives? This was nearly 20 years ago. Bigger political fish to fry. Let's move on.
Cylvia Hayes, fiancee of Oregon Gov. John Kitzhaber, has admitted that almost two decades ago she bought property she intended to grow marijuana on.
The Portland TV station KOIN broke the news.
In a statement, Hayes said that while she and the man she bought the property with intended to grow marijuana there, the grow operation “never materialized.”
But Patrick Siemion, the real estate agent who brokered the deal doesn’t buy that. “If she ‘intended’ it to be a marijuana grow,” he told The Oregonian, “then why did we find cuttings all over the pool table where they were cutting it?” He also says he saw fertilizer and irrigation tubing on the property.
