[TheForge] local codes OT OT

[Peter Fels & Phoebe Palmer]

Calif has a medical pot law and i legally grew a few plants here in the 
chaparral on the cliff face  years ago.
On the anniversary of 9-11, the day they had a nationwide "orange 
alert". Here, on the property farthest from the county seat, the entire 
Monterey county swat team showed up in the front yard with automatic 
weapons, in full combat gear.
I had my documentation in order they agreed, asked to see the plants..I 
showed them...they complemented me on the job i'd done and cut them all 
down and loaded them up in their truck. One of the guys cut several buds 
with his leatherman and put them in his pocket while looking me in the 
eye. Everybody was very polite.
They pointed out that it was still a fed crime and i could fight it if i 
wanted to, but they'd just turn it over to the feds. Said they'd let me 
know if they were going to charge me, and drove away. On request i 
provided my extensive medical documentation...cancer survivor, screwed 
up back, history of depression, etc, etc.
A couple of months later i got a letter saying they weren't going to 
prosecute but that the green pot had deteriorated in the evidence locker 
and they'd tossed it. Things being what they are, it was probably sold 
out the back door.
When i was younger, i would have fought it out to the end. Perhaps i'm a 
bit closer to grown up now.
Northern Calif's biggest $ crop has been pot for quite a while, since 
the fisherys deteriorated so badly and the timber industry went with 
it...or more properly, visa-versa...pf

dann at wctatel.net wrote:
> I simply cannot imagine anyone playing  intentional "games"  with the
> authorities.
> 
> Most every rural property that I've ever seen,  has some hemp growing as
> weeds some where, from the days it was legally grown for making rope.
> 
> Putting a patch of  potted tomatoes in some remote area of the farm might
> feel funny, but who is to know for sure,  that some neighbor kid hasn't
> planted some real weed  on your ground.
> 
> Surprise, surprise, but if the authorities felt they had been baited
> before, it is unlikely they would  be understanding, if they really found
> something.
> 
> I've served on a jury a few times. While it is supposed to be Innocent
> until Proven Guilty.  I'd think
> you would in an expensive, uphill battle if authorities found cultivated
> weed.
> 
> The way the laws are today, if authorities found any cultivated  weed plus
>  firearms  on the same property, it wouldn't be much fun trying to stay
> out of jail.
> 
> Dann
> 
>> The guy is very smart and he didn't do it near his property.
>> Long gone now. He was into long wave radio, strung antenna wires from
>> treetop to treetop with a bow and arrow and made Hawaii on 2 watts.
>> Teaching video at some U. now.
>>
>> Andrew Vida wrote:
>>> Peter Fels & Phoebe Palmer wrote:
>>>> ...crazed rock climber,
>>> 	Department of redundancy department.
>>>
>>>
>>>   had the DEA,
>>>> State narcs and county division all come thundering onto his backwoods
>>>> property without warrants to inspect what turned out to be his tomato
>>>> and carrot patch. They did some damage and didn't apologize.
>>> 	Of course not.  They are pricks.
>>>
>>>> So he went to the city and bought a big bundle of plastic pot plants
>>>> and
>>>> did a very difficult technical climb to install them where the copters
>>>> that spotted them ( CAMP) couldn't get close enough to tell the
>>>> difference.
>>>> They lowered an armed crew on ropes, who rappelled down the rock face
>>>> with difficulty to discover his little joke. Took them quite a while to
>>>> get back out again.  pf
>>> 	Serves them right.  Assholes.
>>>
>>> 	Your friend, I can see, likes to flirt with danger.  Not very smart,
>>> but I can so very much relate to the attitude.  I steer clear of such
>>> people, but if they mess with me I will mess right back.  As I said, not
>>> very smart, but I don't suffer the filth and trash very well.
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