It means they have taken measures to restrict marijuana from a local park, or to discourage it, but they have not actually removed it. In this case the reporter is probably using the wrong word - they really mean prohibit, not remove. I find it unlikely that their are piles of marijuana sitting around in a local park, and the police are not removing it.
The phrase "all but" implies that there is a spectrum of possibilities for achieving some objective, with increasing levels of severity and to do "all but x" is to have done everything that is at a lower level of severity than x.
Let's say I am interested in a girl. The most severe way I could let her know I am interested would be to ask her out. But there are other ways of showing interest. I could say hello to her, smile at her a lot, go out of my way to talk to her, help her with her schoolbooks, etc. To say that I have all but asked her out is to say that I have done everything to express interest in her that is at a lower level of severity than asking her out.
Edited by Anonymous (07/25/09 11:45 AM)
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