your a funny dude. First of all, i didnt say ALL growers go to jail, i said that the majority of all lifetime growers who are growing illegally will do a little time at least once in their lives. Wether it be 6 months or a couple years depends on you. I know plenty of people who went to jail (myself included on multiple occasions, but not for growing), and none of them are dummies, as you so eloquently put it. Most of the most famous growers in the world have done time, if youll read up on it, youll find that out for yourself. If your growing illegally and you think your invinsible, then you have no business growing. simple as that. People growing legally is a completely different matter altogether. Thanks for blurting out the first thing that came to your mind though.
The main reason im saying this, is because its a very real, very possible outcome if your attempting to pull off a carreer growing pot. You should always prepare for the worst (stash away "just in case" money, so you can start growing again when you get out, so you can support your family while your away, ect..), and if you dont, then its your own personal loss. Its most definitely true that the smarter you are, and the more careful you are going about the business of growing pot, the better your chances are of not getting caught, but its an undenyable fact. Why take the chance in the 1st place to be left high and dry if soemthing bad happens to you? should always be prepared to go away for a little while, rather than be caught with your pants down because you think that shit like getting busted only happens to people that you read about, and itll never happen to you. The fact that your disagreeing with me, saying that growers dont go to jail, is reason alone for you to tear down your setup if its not legal.
But alas, i am NOT the leading authority on marijuana law and incarceration statistics. I only know about what i read. And even though i read alot, that doesnt make me a god damn thing. So believe what you want bro, no beef here. Id just rather be the dude with thousands of dollars buried/stashed/drywalled away somewhere, as a contingency plan if anything were to ever happen to me, rather than the guy who puts all his money in a bank/keeps it all in obvious places/blows it all on dumb shit, and leaves his loved ones high n dry, and wont have startup money when he gets out. Sall im sayin man