primitive ponders publicizing pot proprietor to police

[BattleHymn]

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Kill the competition and your weed becomes more valuable?  Report them to the pooolice!

Tue May 3, 2016, 06:36 PM
Star Member Baitball Blogger (23,225 posts)

What are the signs that someone is growing pot in their house?

Tue May 3, 2016, 06:38 PM
Star Member Tobin S. (8,591 posts)
1. Odor. The cops can also detect grow lights via aircraft.

A guy Tobin's size would probably know a thing or two about odor.  I'd say his is an expert opinion on the matter.

Tue May 3, 2016, 06:45 PM
Star Member liberaltrucker (7,615 posts)
2. Actually, with all due respect..

It would be none of your business.

Tue May 3, 2016, 06:50 PM
Lochloosa (9,941 posts)
3. Why would you ask?

Tue May 3, 2016, 06:54 PM
Star Member In_The_Wind (66,121 posts)
4. Are you planning a cover up?

Nope.  Probably trying to kill the competition...

ue May 3, 2016, 07:24 PM
Star Member The Velveteen Ocelot (44,232 posts)
7. The cops look at unusually high electric bills.

Other than that...?

ue May 3, 2016, 07:24 PM
Star Member The Velveteen Ocelot (44,232 posts)
7. The cops look at unusually high electric bills.

Other than that...?

Uh oh.

Tue May 3, 2016, 10:13 PM
OriginalGeek (8,751 posts)
17. For us it was when the task force started dragging garbage bags full of weed

out of the house across the street from my Grandpa. (He lives in Wekiva).


This was many years ago. some folks went away in hand-cuffs too.


edit~ no, I did not poke around to see if they forgot anything...but I wanted to.

Tue May 3, 2016, 11:29 PM
Star Member denbot (5,043 posts)
20. When the cops raid the house next door!

Two more raids, and the actual grow house can be triangulated.

Then, grasswipe Judy, who knows EVERYTHING about ANYTHING checks in:

Wed May 4, 2016, 12:51 AM
Star Member grasswire (48,151 posts)
21. covered windows and lots of traffic

I lived down the block from one about ten years ago. I am so naive and stupid, that every time I walked past that house I remarked on the skunk odor. LOL. The very weird thing about it was that on one side, the neighbor was retired LAPD. On the other side and across the street lived active county sheriff deputies. I am not sure if they were in on it or not. They could not possibly have been ignorant of what was happening.

But in answer to your question. All windows were totally covered all the time. Cars came and went constantly. Many cars. No one would say hello or make eye contact. And the smell was very, very strong.

Wed May 4, 2016, 03:32 AM
Star Member MrScorpio (64,620 posts)
23. Some police have taken to using heat signature detection technology

Oh course, an overly warm house does not meet the legal requirement for probable cause.

However, that won't stop them from starting an investigation, rummage through your trash, checking you for priors, tracking down your credit charges, putting you under surveillance and building a case against you.

There's also launching a sting operation against you, sniffing around your property with K-9 units, tracking down your utility expenses, contriving false testimony, planting evidence, staging false complaints, lying to D.A.s and judges...

Has the pineapple-headed primitive met with the wrong side of the law in this issue?  You decide.

Sat May 7, 2016, 12:29 AM
Star Member Blue_In_AK (46,268 posts)
38. I've grown mine in the crawl space

with shop lights. It barely makes a dent in the electric bill, and even though the buds aren't huge, they work. I can tell you this because it's legal in AK.

[SVPete]

I think Judy may have been describing a Meth Tweeker's "lab".

If the neighbor is growing on a fairly large scale, it will result in a high electric bill, and possibly a recognizable IR pattern. The overflights by a plane or chopper to detect the IR pattern, over multiple days are VERY expensive, so police don't do it for the Hell of it. And checking the utility bills for a house would require a search warrant, which would have to be based on probable cause.

Ignoring the legality issue, commercial marijuana production results in a hot, high humidity environment. In a normal residential house that's going to result in mold growth that, over time, will be of such a scale that the house will become a tear-down. So the DU OPer has a valid interest aside from pot being illegal in not having the neighboring house being used for commercial pot growth. Who wants to live next door to a monstrous mold infestation, and then the demolition of that house (which could spread mold all over the neighborhood!)?

[landofconfusion80]

I think Judy may have been describing a Meth Tweeker's "lab".

If the neighbor is growing on a fairly large scale, it will result in a high electric bill, and possibly a recognizable IR pattern. The overflights by a plane or chopper to detect the IR pattern, over multiple days are VERY expensive, so police don't do it for the Hell of it. And checking the utility bills for a house would require a search warrant, which would have to be based on probable cause.

Ignoring the legality issue, commercial marijuana production results in a hot, high humidity environment. In a normal residential house that's going to result in mold growth that, over time, will be of such a scale that the house will become a tear-down. So the DU OPer has a valid interest aside from pot being illegal in not having the neighboring house being used for commercial pot growth. Who wants to live next door to a monstrous mold infestation, and then the demolition of that house (which could spread mold all over the neighborhood!)?

In those cases, much like the deadbeats with abandoned houses in detroit, I'd like to see the property offered to surrounding land owners for whatever is owed on the property taxes

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[DefiantSix]

Having lived next door to a "herb" grower, I can say of a surety that the local constabulary will usually bury their heads in the sand, until it's discovered that the farmer isn't paying s/h/its tribute to the gang that controls that turf and the drive-by is ordered.