--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, bob_brigante <no_re...@...> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Alex Stanley" > <j_alexander_stanley@> wrote: > > > > http://livinginsmallsizes.com/2009/02/13/several-maharishi- > graduates-busted-for-growing-pot/ > > > > http://is.gd/jOCY > > > > ******* > > I can't believe anybody is so out of it that they would start a grow > operation without being aware of utility co./cop cooperation in > monitoring high electricity usage. Didn't these guys read one of the > weed magazines while boning up on how to grow? (bought at a newstand > with cash, not by subscription, of course: > http://www.potsmokersnet.com/magazines/ ). > > Even with the new harsher penalties, Canada is still the place for > grow ops, and with the larglely unpoliced border, anybody foolish > enough to be in the drug biz faces much lighter penalties: > > http://snipurl.com/c38mw [www2_canada_com] > > They still might do OK if they only face state charges, since Cal has > to reduce its prison population by 1/3, 50,000 inmates, so they won't > do their full term. Federal charges? Fuhgeddaboutit...your ass will > do almost all the time. >
They may have believed that "support of nature" would keep them out of jail. L.