I used to be paranoid about numbers. Don't worry man.
1. Don't talk to anyone without a license about your room
2. Avoid detection of smell
3. Dont stick out like a sore thumb.
Search up rhode island medical marijuana bust on google or any search engine. You'll see that out of the entire medical marijuana program, only several people were busted. Most was because they were growing over 100 plants and abusing the hell out of their licenses. That's too many plants for anybody. Another reason why someone might get busted is the rhode island police department does not have access to the addresses of caregivers or patients. Anyone growing in rhode island to them could potentially be illegal growers. There was a case where they brought an entire swat team and several police squads to bust down the door of a 60 something year old gentleman who is a patient. They found tiny plants and everyone felt like idiots. The police even admitted they need the list of medical growers. Hopefully things will change in the future. But don't worry about being a few plants over the limit. God forbid there is indeed a bust in your house, just chop down the extra plants. Cops fucking love dead marijuana plants. It gives them pleasure knowing you had to kill your own children pretty much... Sick bastards...
Was that the "bust" in North Smithfield that I saw on the news a bunch of weeks back. "Many police arrived at the house in the early morning but no arrests were made. The neighbors said some of their windows had black plastic over them, etc." They even had one guy on getting interview saying he moved to that neighborhood to get away from illegal activity. Since they said there was no arrest and on the news reel it looked like an older man and woman outside talking to the police... to me it seemed like it was a legal medical grow and someones husband was a police officer... word got around at a little league game or something and it blew up from there.
I'm not sure if thats the exact event your citing but I saw it one morning on the 5 or 6 am news. (Yes, we "users" do get up early, lol.) When I saw it I was sick because basically they disclosed that the people were MMJ patients for everyone who knows that house or recognizes their faces. Way to go!
If "they" want to knock my door down then go ahead. As long as they want to be friendly about it. I'm legal and so is my number of plants... I also have epilepsy so the lights mess with my pretty bad, give me a staus check on the way out boys - save me the headache, literally.
RIMONSTERS, You might want to read the entire set of RIGL on the law. I beleive co-op's are still not allowed unlike other states.
Bud