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AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - A 73-year-old Dutch man was astonished to learn from police that the begonias he had lovingly tended on his doorstep concealed a secret marijuana plantation.

"Police officers suddenly noticed marijuana plants sprouting from his begonias," a police spokeswoman in The Hague said on Friday.

The Hague pensioner promised to destroy the marijuana plants, which he believes were planted by local youngsters, while preserving his begonias.

Earlier this month the Dutch government set up a task force to crack down on marijuana cultivation in the country.

Growing marijuana is illegal in the Netherlands, but sales of it and other cannabis-related soft drugs in coffee shops have been tolerated for decades.

(Reporting by Alexandra Hudson)

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The Dutch Government are just unbelievable really- you can't tolerate the smoking of cannabis but then go around trying to lock up people who grow it- it is so backwards and it makes them look plain stupid really. What kind of bizzare message does it send to kids really? They just wanna criminalise it but they have to do it bit by bit. Fools, Amsterdam is great an all- I love it buy I wouldn't come here so often if it was only the canals to see...