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want_my_ink

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I just wanted to inform others on the subject of the legal amount of plants you are allowed to grow in California. To make a long story short, there is alot of bad advice on the web. I had the misfortune of confronting the local police in my home. You are allowed to have 12 immature plants OR (and I repeat OR) 6 mature.
If you have 6 and 12 you will at the least have your crop taken away. Thats speaking from experience......Don't play around with plant numbers. Keep it legal and your safe.
 

Farm Friend

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It depends on your county. I live in CA and in my county I am allowed a canopy of 100 sq.ft within a 10x10 space and no more than 99 plants and 3 pounds of dried bud.
 

potroast

Uses the Rollitup profile
Yes, the State law is 6 mature plants. Many counties/cities have their own ordinance with more liberal, and compassionate, plant limits.

San Diego is 24 plants/patient, or 48 for caregivers.

HTH :mrgreen:
 

edux10

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Wow i didn't know that SD was 24 plants. Thought it was only 6/12. Doesn't SB420 say that you can grow as much as medically required or something like that?
 

User24

Well-Known Member
the real answer is.

you can have 6 mature or 12 immature and 1/2 pound dried bud and you are completely immune from arrest per SB420 as long as you have your scrip.

counties can set higher limits but not lower them. and many have raised the limits.

BUT
per Prop. 215, which supercedes SB420 you can posess any number of plants, and IF busted, you can raise a medical defense for the posession. (persons without a recommendation cannot raise the medical defense.)

It will be up to the jury to decide if your claim is reasonable for personal use, so you could get screwed..especially with an unreasonable number of plants (probably around 25-30 indoors is where most people would consider you to be growing for commercial gain) but chances are that you can exceed the 6 flowering or 12 vegging by a decent margin and still win. (although with the expense and hassle of having to go to court and hire an attorney)

your best bet is to find a doc that is known to be a little more liberal when writing a scrip, as they can recommend more than the statewide or county base limits. if you live in a county or jurisdiction with a low base tolerance, the scrip makes whatever it says is your limits your personal baseline for immunity from arrest. :blsmoke:
 
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