I love that pic of them all lined up in the growroom ms. I know what those girls will look like in a month and it's gonna be amazing in there. Might be time to consider odour control though.
I got it Pippy
Hi V12 and thanks for the comments
Re Odour control, well yes, you are right of course BUT the way I grow I really cant do it! I have my cab open morning to night, part of my daily routine, I move my plants a round the house and they go outside on sunny days! Besides: .........
Since I was arrested 2 years ago I have been painstakingly preparing for the day (if) it happens again. I've been following court cases up and down the country, and I've witnessed the increasing numbers of growers who are at last offering a defence based on 'abuse of process'. Its complex and I wont go into it here too deeply but its been gradually developing over the last couple of years and AT LAST it is to heard in the Court of Appeal. Basically this defence hinges upon proving that the Govt have illegally implimeted the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 which was never intended as a vehicle for prohibition but rather as harm limitation, and that in excluding alcohol and tobacco (both of course are also classified as psycho active drugs) under its wing the Govt has discriminated against a comparatively harmless substance (cannabis), statistically proven. Such discrimination is illegal under law. Home brewers of beer and wine have legal protection while cannabis growers are persecuted. In addition European human rights law protects our right to a private life and it protects our 'property rights' within our homes. All drugs are 'property' or 'things' under English common law. The Common Law of this country supports this
I quote Odgers 'Common law of England'
CHAPTER III.
PRIVATE RIGHTS : RIGHTS OF OWNERSHIP.
We now proceed to describe private rights, and in the first place rights of property. Property consists of land or things, or rights in, to, or over land or things ; rights against persons are also, in a sense, property.
Land and things are tangible property. Rights in, to or over them are intangible property, and so are rights against persons.
Trees and growing crops, and all buildings erected on land, are part of the land and pass with it on any transfer of ownership. But timber, hay and corn that is cut, are things. [harvested plants are 'things' to which you have rights over]
Ownership is the right to hold, use and enjoy land or things to the exclusion of every one else.
There is much in the law that actually protects our rights to grow and use cannabis! Its the Government who have illegally used the MoD act to force cannabis prohibition.
So now, finally we have a legal challenge to take place in the Court of Appeal. To get there Ed Stratton has refused a caution 4 times, elected for Crown Court and to be tried by Jury, refused to enter a plea. Only yesterday he refused to exercise his right to Jury nullification on the basis that only a 'guilty' verdict would take him straight to appeal. Why? because a 'not guilty' verdict yesterday would have meant he walked away from court and that would set no precedent for future cases of cannabis related prosecution. HOWEVER if he wins his appeal (and the judge said to him that there may well be grounds for changes based upon his evidence and defence and indeed steered Ed in that direction,) then it changes things for every single one of us here! .....it really is that ground breaking, an end to cannabis prosecutions in this country AT LAST. They have won significant victories along the way and earlier this month the Govt were forced to release a suppressed draft paper in which it was acknowledged that MoD Act was in need of a complete overhaul. That in itself was an amazing victory and forms a part of the evidence, the Govt secretly acknowledging its own failings and concerns over the act was not something 'we' were supposed to find out about and the paper was suppressed by Govt.
We are getting very close now!
I make no apologies for this long post, its in the interest of all of us UK personal growers to arm ourselves with such knowledge. Finally here's Ed's words from yesterday about how the case proceeded to Appeal. Note his words and refusal to go for jury nullification, I reckon we should all raise a spliff to Ed tonight for this achievement
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Convicted! It's the result we needed.
I argued on behalf of sick people and people who want to relax with a spliff. I told the jury that the law is bad, and that sick people like me as well as responsible peaceful adult cannabis smokers were caught in its dragnet. I welcomed the jury's sympathy, and told them that in spite of my admission to the facts of the case - yes, I grew cannabis - I had to plead Not Guilty to preserve my integrity and honour.
I told the jury that this court has no power to rule on a bad law, it can only apply it - the place to argue that the law is bad is the Court of Appeal.
I then told them they had the power to acquit me even in spite of the facts and evidence - jury nullification. Then surreally, I said:
"but I will not be asking you to do that today..."
"Because I want to go to the Court of Appeal, and if acquitted, that is the end of the matter and I am in the same position next week if I choose to grow cannabis."
"So ladies and gentlemen, if you have any sympathy for me, you will convict. Help me out here today."
So surreal it was, that the Police Officer who presided over my case was in paroxysms of laughter. The judge was very amused with my thumbs up to the jury when they said "guilty"...
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