It took the National Guard, the state police, and a military-style helicopter to capture Margaret Holcomb’s one marijuana plant.

Holcomb, an 81-year-old grandmother, was the target of a recent drug raid that ended with ground troops chopping down a six-foot cannabis stalk growing in her Amherst, Massachusetts garden.

“It’s ridiculous,” fumed the feisty octogenarian to the Boston Herald in an interview published Friday, more than two weeks after the weed dustup. “This is not what happens in a democratic society. We don’t have people flying over us and watching us, then coming and invading our property.”

According to her son Tim Holcomb, he was having lunch at his mother’s house — who was not home — on September 21 when he heard the whirring sound of an aircraft from above. Tim Holcomb looked outside to see a helicopter circling the family’s property, the Daily Hampshire Gazette reported.

“It was so low that the house was shaking,” Tim Holcomb told the Herald.

Minutes later, several vehicles pulled up to the home, including a pickup truck up filled with marijuana plants seized from other locations. A state trooper flashed his badge. Authorities later carted away Margaret Holcomb’s pot plant, which was nestled in a raspberry patch.

David Procopio, a spokesman with the Massachusetts state police, told the Boston Globe that the marijuana “eradication operation” was carried out alongside the Massachusetts National Guard. The annual drug raids are made possible by a $60,000 US Department of Justice grant, he said.

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The granny who had her ganja plant pinched was not too happy about the whole thing.

“I had been nursing this baby through a drought, and I was pretty pissed to tell you the truth,” Margaret Holcomb told the Globe.

Holcomb said she has grown a single pot plant for years as a way to ease her arthritis and glaucoma, as well as to help her sleep at night, according to the Gazette. While medical marijuana is legal in Massachusetts, she said she does not possess a patient’s card.

State voters will decide next month whether to legalize recreational use of the drug. Recent polling shows that a majority of Massachusetts voters favor the measure.