A few years back I was predicting that the war on some drugs would not end with legalization. “Just wait until it’s the revenuers, not DEA, coming after your stills...um, I mean plants”.
“We think you have more than the 12 plants allowed by law, open up, we have a warrant”
No knock raids are justified here, the tax cheats could send a plant down the garbage disposer in the time it takes us to politely knock and identify ourselves”.
In a pig's eye no knock raids are justified.
1. How long does it take to put a couple hundred plants down the disposal? If the house only has one or two the plants are legal.
2. Before they even knock on the door, any competent plumber can block the drain from the house in about 2 minutes -- the item they use is called a "test weenie". Goes in real quick and keeps the evidence right there in the blocked sewer pipe. They can even train a cop how to block the sewer.
The po-po murdered two people in Texas in a no-knock raid recently. Never again.