Who's been caught?

Just wondering, with our hobbie been illegal in most places, has anyone ever been caught with plants?If so how many, where do you live and what was the penalty? Might be an interesting thread...so far i've been lucky however was caught holding once and ended up in court and got fined...

My friends got caught, because they were being stupid about it. They kicked in his door, took everything and arrested everyone. The next day they were out and living life normally. granted they have some hefty lawyers fees, and some community service, but my friend had the best lawyer around so he pretty much got off scot free. lucky sunsabitches.

a couple years back a buddy of mine got busted with three northern lights plants in his closet. he was an idiot and threw a mardi gras party in his apartment and had a bunch of underage kids drinking, needless to say he got screwed. no jail time though

i know one guy got busted but that was becuase he was a dumbass. just like gogrow said had a big party and bragged about his shit. later down the road police came and got his shit. other then paying big money and community serivce and maybe probabtion, hes back at growing buds again.

my x girlfriend went crazy one night after too much drinking. She was in the middle of town pretty much, screaming in the middle of the street. I tried to calm her down, no luck. I knew the cops were going to be coming so i took off (i was underage and drunk at the time). Well she let them in our house and someone they managed to search all the room in the basment and found 40 plants about 3 feet tall in veg. They took all my lights which sucked but all i got was a cultivation of marijuana charge which is a mm. Worst they could do to you was a fine like 250 bucks i think...
sucked losing all the lights tho

Well boys and girls do you see a common thread here? DON'T BE A DUMBASS!! Don't have a party and show people your stuff. Don't brag about your grow. Don't be stupid in public. Don't let your g/f be stupid in public. Keep it to yourself!! You tell or show one good friend; they tell a good friend they think is very trustworthy and they tell someone that doesn't know you and they could care less if you get caught or who they tell. MYOB.

As stated, even your own wife/spouse will rat on you, i'm living proof of that.
I don't know about your guy's states but, cultivation isnt a misdemeanor. That's just funny to think about...

I have yet to go to trail, infact i was just indicted today. I spent 20 days in jail before being able to bail out... so i'm jelous of your friends that got out the next morning. My bail was set high, 100,000 to be precise, then changed to 50,000 but set at 100% cash bond, if you don't know what the means, it means 50,000 cash. no bondsman, no 10 or 20% and no properties, which made my bail about 5 times worse.

russOr said:

As stated, even your own wife/spouse will rat on you, i'm living proof of that.
I don't know about your guy's states but, cultivation isnt a misdemeanor. That's just funny to think about...

I have yet to go to trail, infact i was just indicted today. I spent 20 days in jail before being able to bail out... so i'm jelous of your friends that got out the next morning. My bail was set high, 100,000 to be precise, then changed to 50,000 but set at 100% cash bond, if you don't know what the means, it means 50,000 cash. no bondsman, no 10 or 20% and no properties, which made my bail about 5 times worse.

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sorry to hear that man. my state cult. is a felony also and bonds about the same, just not cash only, thats why my friend did no jail time. he did get 5 years supervised probation though. yet again, sorry to hear bout your trouble, esp. the 20 days jail time, jail is no place for a simple stoner, been there myself.

Man that sucks so bad. There are so many really BAD, EVIL people out doing so many rotten things yet they want to use their resources to catch and jail potheads; that's just damn stupid. Just because something is against the law doesn't mean it's right and just because something is legal doesn't mean it's "ok". Just a little over a hundred years ago our Government was paying bounties to KILL Native Americans on sight!! That wasn't just "legal"; it was government funded murder. Was it right?

The United States of America has the highest prison population in the world. Yes that's right the country that was built on the Constitution and The Bill of Rights. The land of the Free also can boast that about 50% of all federal inmates are in for...yep you guessed it drugs. So yes the rights and freedoms we are granted has earned us a huge drug war with many real non violent offenders making up half our prison population, and more users are injured or killed by enforcement than the actual drugs themselves. Nice protection our gov't has given us from drugs, huh? No wonder the rest of the world thinks we are jackasses, just look at our system.... we can shoot a burglar and get sued or even arrested for it, so even violent offenders have more rights than drug offenders, and what is that saying?

Our gov't also has decided it now has the right to tell us what we can and can not put in our body....somebodies gotten a little power hungry and corrupted...also the major lobbyists of the drug wars are, or rather the biggest contributors to the drug war are
1. alcohol companies-afraid of losing customers for some odd reason
2. pharma companies- can't patent MJ, so they wouldn't even be able to do anything really
3 synthetics companies-hemp anyone
4. and the underground-huge losses of money, career changes

A little off topic but stoners aren't political or motivated enough to do anything so I would put all of us at #5 on the list. I read that if every regular user donated their bag money for just one week that there would be enough funds to try and create and pass drug laws just like Cali's Prop. 215...I think it was 215, someone who knows could help me out here.

Great post Gygax! I've said for years that the police need marijuana; it's their "boogeyman". When they need more money, new patrol cars, more policemen, the latest in super snooping equipment, all they need to do is scream that there are drug-crazed potheads on the loose, out there sniffing pot, raping and pillaging, and they get all the money they want, police powers that the framers of the constitution never intended them to have and the ability to do just about any damn thing they want - under color of law - with impunity. Need to kill someone? Cap his ass and stuff a bag of pot in his pants. Need a million dollar helicopter? Grow a small patch of marijunana on the sheriff's property, have the heros come in and make a media event out of it and put "huge pot farm found at undisclosed location" in the newspapers and the money for that shiney new heli will be in the next budget. It's the best damn thing to ever happen to the po po.

I enjoyed reading the last two posts. Points well made.

ditto.. roflmfao i want a shiny new heli!!!!

Marijuana used to be referred to only as hemp until the government funded a propaganda campaign early in the century which succeeded in rebranding it as marijuana (how it was referred to in mexico) and stemming the flow of immigrants from south of the border. Also, do you really think that it's a coincidence that we are turning our prisons over to private FOR PROFIT companies who are using inmates generate over a billion dollars a year in goods? Do you think it's a coincidence that there is lower pot use per capita among white people when it was white theatres that were playing that shit propaganda and that our prisons are filled with minorities for stupid ass drug charges? It's all bullshit. We live in the land of the fees my friends.

the reason why the us has the most people in jail is because its a business. With everyday a person spends time in jail the government is being paid for that person being in jail.

Real sad thing is look at what it costs to house these prisoners, then take that money and see how much it woulf help children in school, yeah the kids in our crappy education system now. One person in jail costs us what maybe 5 kids need to get a good education. Not sure if that makes sense but we spend more money on a single prisoner a year then we do on an underpriviledged child, the ones who can't afford lunch, or a school uniform, or certain districts that get no funding and the poor kids never get a shot. And yes it is a business, just trying to put it in perspective with what could be fixed instead. I know we got off subject but it's an interesting topic.

Any news on getting caught growing in the UK? I dont know of anyone except iToke.....

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Well boys and girls do you see a common thread here? DON'T BE A DUMBASS!! Don't have a party and show people your stuff. Don't brag about your grow. Don't be stupid in public. Don't let your g/f be stupid in public. Keep it to yourself!! You tell or show one good friend; they tell a good friend they think is very trustworthy and they tell someone that doesn't know you and they could care less if you get caught or who they tell. MYOB.

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dont forget maybe getting robbed or the worst getting killed over it. slight chance of that happening tho