I have a decent Dutch story that involves my university. And pot.
You'll have to google it yourself, but the story is that the police found a hennep (pot) plantation hidden in a field of maize. They immediately started clearing the field... until my university showed up and told them it was a scientific experiment. The plants had no 'active' ingredients.
The police destroyed half of the experiment, I don't know how much financial damage was done.
Only in Holland.
The field was next to a town called Lelystad, the university is called Wageningen Universiteit and it took place in september 2009. You can probably find an English report with that info.