I was reading the first few pages and it made me want to share my run in with law enforcement about a year ago. I am located in the middle tn area.
I was up north visiting with my girl friend at the times family when i get a phone call from a good friend of both mine and my neighbors. He tells me that a helicopter had been hovering above my house and that officers were starting to roll in. My first reaction was to call the sheriffs office. They forward me to a detective. The detective informs me that the chopper had found 6 plants on my property. I tell him I'm out of state and he instructs me to come to the sheriffs department in the morning. He asks what was up with the plants, I tell him there's never any good bud around and when there is the prices are too high so I thought I'd try my hand at growing my own. He asked if I had ever grown before, i pause then decide honesty is the best policy, I tell him I had grown 2 plants the previous year. That is when he informs me that they were already pretty sure I was currently growing because of a text they recovered from a seized phone from me, dumb mistake I know. He then informs me that he doesn't give two shits about weed or the people who grow it small scale for personal use. That they were wasting time with me that they could be spending on pills and drunks. The phone was recovered by the city police and turned into the sheriffs dept because I had basically admitted to growing in the text. They only fly the helicopter to suspected grow sights. And he also told me the governors highway safety office was considering cutting out the use of the helicopter because of the changing legal climate of marijuana and the cost to operate the equipment.The detective told me they no longer go out of their way to bust grows. I walked out of the sheriffs dept 15min later with a written citation for simple possession. I had 6 healthy plants which is a felony in Tn. Just thought I would share my experience as I feel it is a sign things are changing even in the Bible Belt
Edit: the phone wasn't seized from me. The phone was seized from a friend of mine and there were texts from me on it