Do Police even bother trying to bust small grow ops anymore?

goldenone said:

In Oklahoma they will bust your ass for a single seed. They are also good about planting evidence if they suspect you and don't find anything. In some areas good luck even getting a public defender if you cant afford an attorney. Crooked bastards there and for the most part informants are the name of the game!

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i heard in oklahoma you can get busted for thinking about growing, don't move to oklahoma.

i know a guy that had like 20 plants and they charged him with felony manufacturing of drugs.........now when he tries to get a job they are going to think he was cooking meth.

abudsmoker said:

if you are broke they will be forced to give you one

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Like I said good luck with that. They will sometimes determine that you are able bodied and able to work and that you can hire an attorney. They will keep you in jail until you fulfill the required paper work. Been there and done that and they can and will do what ever they please. Not all counties are quite that bad, but some are. I thought the same as you and I thought wrong.

What we do here is Illegal just giving advice on growing, Its all bullshit and states will soon follow suite of CA. I'm glad its decriminalized here were I'm at. Its meth there going after! Damn crazy meth making hillbillies!!!

shit dem crackers gone have a field day with 10-15 small plants

Illegalbreather said:

I read that somewhere in Oklahoma a helicopter found two marijuana plants growing in the corner of a garden while flying overhead. They went and got a search warrant and arrested the nice couple the next day, one of which was an elementary school teacher! She lost her job because of two marijuana plants, these kind of stories bring sympathy from all walks of life!

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I read this article myself. I wonder if maybe they were being checked out for other reasons or if it was just dumb luck to fnd 2 plants while flying in a helicopter. I know its hard to spot people from helicopters, forget about 2 little green plants among other green plants in a garden.

I was recently buying from a guy who got busted; he told me his biggest problem was the sawed off shotgun they found in his apartment...I was like, "why the eff am I dealing with a person who owns a sawed-off shotgun???" It then dawned on me that you just don't know WHO you are dealing with most of the time, and then my personal safety became a question. So I decided to grow. I hate thinking that I am taking a bigger legal risk this way, with my peaceful endeavor. but it is true, I open up the whole "cultivation and distribution" door now, instead of just possession - even though I don't sell and I don't share either. The only people I know here who smoke pot are the people who sell it and they aren't getting any freebies here!

fornitsomefornus said:

I was recently buying from a guy who got busted; he told me his biggest problem was the sawed off shotgun they found in his apartment...I was like, "why the eff am I dealing with a person who owns a sawed-off shotgun???" It then dawned on me that you just don't know WHO you are dealing with most of the time, and then my personal safety became a question. So I decided to grow. I hate thinking that I am taking a bigger legal risk this way, with my peaceful endeavor. but it is true, I open up the whole "cultivation and distribution" door now, instead of just possession - even though I don't sell and I don't share either. The only people I know here who smoke pot are the people who sell it and they aren't getting any freebies here!

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that's it right there. most of the people i know who have been busted were busted by accident and were busted way harder for other shit that was found besides weed like guns and money. i know a dealer who just got fucked because him and his roomate beat the shit out of two robbers that broke in their house and a robber's gun went off. if the cops didn't need to go in there to find the bullet they would have got off scot free. they found some shake and got a warrant and dude got busted for his "home security". no weight was found.

schwa said:

i know a guy that had like 20 plants and they charged him with felony manufacturing of drugs.........now when he tries to get a job they are going to think he was cooking meth.

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You guys are freaking me out. This whole thread is killing my buzz. Fuc.

schwa said:

i live in ohio and i can guarantee if someone tipped of the cops that i was growing 1 single plant in my closet my door would be kicked in and i would be considered a drug cultivator and dealer. zero tolerance around here....more like ignorance to me.

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Fuck that. Im never going to live in Ohio.

Anyone know how bad it is in Idaho??

NLNo5 said:

Fuck that. Im never going to live in Ohio.

Anyone know how bad it is in Idaho??

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Well if you haven't been busted yet then keep quite and don't worry. No matter what state you're in you still have a little to worry about.

This is NORML state by state laws very informative
http://norml.org/index.cfm?Group_ID=4516

NLNo5 said:

Fuck that. Im never going to live in Ohio.

Anyone know how bad it is in Idaho??

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wait ohio was decriminalized the last time i checked, i didnt know they were as strict as you say

what do you think would happen if you got busted and they found your full set up everything from lights to waterin can , but they was no plants growing , do they hae a right to take everything ? ir could you say you wanted to start growing tomatos

BKCSG said:

Just like the title says, do they? I'm not paranoid, I just want to see everyones opinion on the matter. Wha size would draw there attention? Do they even have the resources to go after the small ones. If a suspicious person found out about a 10-15 plant setup of small plants and reported it to the authorities, would they even start an investigation? Answer as though it were in the US. (not a medicinal state)

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indoor of course they will. outdoor on remote rugged terrain, maybe not.

mcgravity said:

what do you think would happen if you got busted and they found your full set up everything from lights to waterin can , but they was no plants growing , do they hae a right to take everything ? ir could you say you wanted to start growing tomatos

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no pot =no charges ,unless your dumb enough to tell them your about to grow dope.

*BUDS said:

no pot =no charges ,unless your dumb enough to tell them your about to grow dope.

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i have heard from a lot of people the police can not charge you with any thing for growing cannabis when in veg state , but they can take all stuff

but can charge you when in flower stage is part of this true or untrue

mcgravity said:

i have heard from a lot of people the police can not charge you with any thing for growing cannabis when in veg state , but they can take all stuff

but can charge you when in flower stage is part of this true or untrue

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that is a good question that i would like to know aswell,even though i have a med card.

mcgravity said:

i have heard from a lot of people the police can not charge you with any thing for growing cannabis when in veg state , but they can take all stuff

but can charge you when in flower stage is part of this true or untrue

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Unfortunately this is not true. It is in the best interest of all LEO, DEA etc. to seize all plants regardless of size, maturity or sex. I recently saw a local outdoor bust with over 450 plants taken. The local news media shot video of the plants up close. The grow was poorly planned and included some of the worst looking "schwag" I've ever seen. Females covered in seeds, some of which were clearly planted too late to get even close to maturity, popcorn buds covered in spider mite damage due to the hot summer, abundant numbers of males (local "barney was proudly holding one) you name it..this was one fucked up grow. The media said the street value was close to $4 million. Hyping a bust to keep the money flowing goes way back with these people.