netdog100

YO, im 15 years old and growing 1 plant about 8 inches tall. I've been getting paraniod as **** latly when i found out growing is a felony. I told a bunch of people by accident, and now am afraid of some one narcing. Can police bust me just because of a narc? What kind of penelty will i get if busted, my parents? If i get of with a mistiminer will it affect me getting into college, stay on my perm record? I live in a pretty small town in the midwest with cops having nothing to do. I growing just for my self and some friends, no money involved.

I just whant to know how serious this Sh!t is and if i should just tear my plant down before its to late!

Pleaze Respond as soon as posible.

Panama

The police need only have a tip to obtain a search warrant to search your parents house. Your parents could potentially lose their house and property and you could end up in a juvenile detention center. The easist way to get busted is to let anyone know that you have a grow.

InsaneK9

Sorry to hear your situation.

Not only is it a felony to grow, but if you give some of this homegrow to your "friends" then you have commited another felony. I sugest that you find the thread "state laws online", you can find the laws at the NORML site.

Your BIGGEST mistake was telling others. Never tell anyone that you can't trust with your LIFE. Even then, keep it to yourself. Loose lips, sink ships.

If I were you... I would abort this grow... destroy ALL evidence of your grow. Then let it know to your "friends" that you pulled out. They will all give you crap... but better that than them getting pissed at you for not giving them "their share for keeping your secret" and turning you in.

Start a new grow at a later date when you can keep a secret.

K9

netdog100

thanks but will i get a felony charged on me or will it be lessened to a mistominer, but im thinks of pulling the plug i cant concentrate at school because of my insane paranoia.
Can the cops bust down the doar at any time of day or do they need a person present at house?

Thanks!

Addict

Tell everyone who knows about it that it died, you killed it or even the cat ate it (see the nursery for inspiration)and just keep growing. Try growing it on someone else's property or in the bush. Or if the cops really have nothing to do and you don't want to grow it anymore plant it in someone's garden (someone who ya don't like) and call the cops, for a laugh. Best of luck with whatever you decide to do.

Addie the Addict

Panama

You don't want to put your parents property at risk, so you chose instead to put an innocent neighbor's property at risk? No, don't ever do that. If you must plant on property other than your own then do it on public land.

420Forever

That's something with very serious consequences....it's not a "laughing" matter...not only may they have their property taken away, but they may also go to jail for a while. Because you don't like them, they would have to suffer....it's one thing not to like someone, that's your business....but to possibly ruin their life/harm them, and possibly some of the lives of those close to them, because of it is quite another.

[Edited by 420Forever on 11-11-2000 at 11:31 AM]

netdog100

your probably not going to go to jail for growing 1 plant. But that gives me and idea the dude that cheated with my girlfriend has a pretty big yard and only 2 blocks from the police station... Ohh think of the possibilities!!!

Nahh, my old girlfriend wasnt exectly a firecracker but my MJ girl is by far hotter i guess ill have to go through with my grow.

I'll keep you updated!!

Anybody have any cheating girlfriend stories of their own?

lensman

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Author: Anne Gearan, Associated Press


COURT HEARS DRUG CASE OF MAN KEPT OUT OF HOME

Washington --- Charles McArthur admits that given the chance, he would have flushed the drugs down the toilet before police could find the stash under his couch.

What brought his arrest on minor drug charges to the Supreme Court on Wednesday was the way police made sure McArthur never got that opportunity: They kept him outside his own house while they got a search warrant.

The justices will decide if that was an unreasonable search and seizure under the Constitution, or whether, as the police claim, it was an efficient and humane way to preserve evidence of a crime. A decision is expected by summer.

Several justices pressed McArthur's lawyer to say what police did wrong, with Justice Stephen Breyer even suggesting the arresting officer might deserve a medal for patience.

"Why isn't what he did a good thing?" Breyer asked.

The case began three years ago in Sullivan, Ill., when McArthur's estranged wife arranged for police to wait outside the couple's trailer while she moved out. As she left, she told the officers she had just seen her husband hide marijuana under a couch.

Sullivan Deputy Police Chief John Love knocked on the trailer door, told McArthur about the accusation and requested permission to search. McArthur came outside and denied he had drugs inside, but he refused to allow police inside without a warrant.

"If I were a police officer, I would think, 'He's going to turn right around and flush it down the toilet,' " if left alone, Breyer said Wednesday.

Yet the officer did not arrest McArthur immediately and did not go in without a warrant. Instead, the two men waited together outside McArthur's trailer for about two hours, except for chaperoned visits inside so McArthur could use the phone and fetch his cigarettes.

McArthur was arrested as soon as police went inside and found the drugs right where McArthur's wife said they would be.

He fought the misdemeanor charge of possessing less than 2.5 grams of marijuana and drug paraphernalia, and lower courts agreed with him. He also testified after his arrest that he would have gotten rid of the drugs as soon as he got the chance.

McArthur's lawyer, Deanne Jones, agreed police were in a bind but said, essentially, tough luck.

The case is one of several the court has taken recently that examine the limits of police powers to hunt for drugs.

The court already has heard arguments this year in a case testing how far police may go in detaining presumably innocent motorists while they look for a few drug scofflaws. The justices will hear another case later in the term involving a man busted for growing marijuana after police outside the man's home monitored heat generated by grow lamps in his garage.

KILLER_HIT

How is it possible to get felony charges for giving out your "homegrown" once the plants are harvested it cannot be proved it is home grown