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"Nowhere did I read where a jury found that marijuana wasn't growing on 10 acres of his land or that there was 250 pounds of marijuana in his barn. Absent that finding, it's adios farm."

Nowhere did I read that there were 10 acres of marijuana growing and 250 pounds of it in his barn. Read the article again. The police said they found an "estimated" 250 pounds of marijuana. There was marijuana growing in ten acres of cornfield and some in the barn. It was June.

Being as this happened in June, they probably found over two hundred immature plants growing and just estimated that each plant would produce a pound. That's pretty much the standard measure law enforcement uses, and of course, it's not accurate. If it was marijuana grown from seed, about half the crop would turn out male and would be cut out as soon as its sex showed as there is no market for male plants and the growers like to pull the males before they fertilize the females as seedless buds are much more potent and valuable. Not only that, but as I understand from testimony I've heard, not all female plants will produce the same if they make it at all. Bugs, deer, rabbits, thieves and disease all cause losses in marijuana crops. Not every plant is going to make it and produce a pound or more of final product.

Anyway, whether the 250 pound figure was bogus or not, your characterization of the evidence is not accurate. It could be that only a couple of male plants that had showed their sex early were drying in the loft of the barn. Or maybe there was just a half smoked joint in the barn. You can't tell from this article. And the pot growing in the fields could have been very well hidden. It wouldn't seem like it would be that hard to hide a couple of hundred pot plants scattered about in ten acres of corn.

"There was marijuana growing in ten acres of cornfield and some in the barn."

Well, let's agree that there was a cornfield of 320 acres. And that marijuana was growing in ten acres of that 320 acres.

I'll concede that the article wasn't clear on exactly how much of that 10 acres was marijuana and how much was corn. I assumed all of that 10 acres was marijuana, since the chemicals used to control weeds in cornfields would also kill the marijuana. Hard, if not impossible, to mix the two.

But, maybe he didn't use chemicals in that section for that very reason. Fine. Maybe there was less than ten acres of actual marijuana plants.

But when they say an estimated 250 pounds, I assume they mean an estimated 250 pounds. Where do you get "some" from that, or why do you say it was "bogus"? Wishful thinking, or did you read something the rest of us didn't?