Oregon: Pot Find Is The Legal Kind

The Mail Tribune ^ | August 18, 2007

[goldstategop]

I'm really glad to see the WOD Warriors get their comeuppance.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[Mariner]

I don’t see a problem, other than the police trying to enforce a very strange law against growing a plant.

[Moonman62]

He said that in his initial survey of the site searched earlier this month, he estimated the greenhouse contained about 300 plants. But when the officers serving the search warrant counted stems, there were only 24 — the number authorized by the four cards the grower displayed at the site.

Those must be some huge plants and a lot of "medicine" for only four people.

[ol' hoghead]

"This is a frustration for us," said Sgt. Rick Valentine, supervisor of the Jackson County Narcotics Enforcement Team,... we spend time on what turns out to be legal activity, it takes away from playing Rambo"

[Alright_on_the_LeftCoast]

Like DUH - they couldn’t check the legality of the operation prior to investing time and calling out the SWAT teams to invade a legal grower...DUH - they obviously had the address. Back to what you do best - giving speeding tickets to law abiding citizens and eating donuts and coffee. Actually, the modern warriors are into Starbucks now...everyday in Hillsboro the place is crawling with them.....lattes and orange cream cupcakes...brave boys.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

He said he wished his neighbors who complained about his 65-foot-long greenhouse filled with bushy marijuana plants had come to him before contacting police.

People need to mind their own business. Yet these same folks won't call police if they see illegals in the street.

[Global2010]

We had a woman who had the medicinal ok to grow for her own use and (why this guy does not want his name/area made public) some guy who knew her son and his buddies (word of mouth) went to her home murdered her to steal the marijuana plants.

Hope this legal grower has protection.

Sounds like he was doing a good horticultural job.

I wonder how good his tomato crop is this year?
I have not found any great ones locally and have freinds looking for some at Market Place ect..tomatoes I love going on my summer tomato diet.

Last year was awesome I eat two a day raw no problem.

Anyone know of any awesome ones in their area? Please Freepmail me the grower so I can see about getting some shipped to us.
Again I am talking about Tomato’s.

[Anti-Bubba182]

""It used to be real clear-cut," Doney said. "If you saw marijuana, it was illegal. Now we have to do more homework.""

Even if they legalize pot the situation could possibly be the same.

They would probably tax and regulate it like liquor and illegal gardens would treated like moonshine stills

[vietvet67]

Hangnail

[rawcatslyentist]

>"They would probably tax and regulate it"

God help us when they figure out how to tax sunshine and rain!!

[Astronaut]

Idiot cops and busybody neighbors. How many terrorists sneak across the border every day because we are obsessed with something as harmless as weed? If beer and wine are legal, then pot should be no different. Lets direct resources to where they are needed: finding terror cells that are already in this country because we have a porous border and an immigration policy that will strip search grandmas but ignore arabs because we want to be politically correct.

[KoRn]

/mark

[robertpaulsen]

"but still noted that each mature plant produces between one and a half and two pounds of usable marijuana."

Hey, Wolfie, weren't you the one who said in another thread that this was a ridiculously high amount?

Anyways, let's make it easy and say 2 pounds per plant times 6 plants per "patient". That's one pound per month. Approximately 10 joints per day.

Some migraine, huh?

[ga medic]

“Yet these same folks won’t call police if they see illegals in the street.”

Why would anyone call the police if they saw illegals in the street? Even assuming you could tell that they were illegals, the police won’t do anything. They will hardly arrest them when they are caught committing a crime. Total waste of time and energy.

[theBuckwheat]

When you have a big hammer, every problem looks like a nail, especially when you come from a culture of using hammers on nails and the government gives you a monopoly on using hammers to pound nails.

Few people who graduate from government run (so-called) “education” system know that public police are a relatively recent invention almost unknown to the authors of the Bill of Rights. We are now getting to see yet more reasons why their powers must be constrained, lest more innocent lives are snuffed out in the name of protecting the public.

Worse, the flip side of making historically legal plants illegal is the widespread compromises of the law enforcement community and system. It must be happening, given the vast ocean of drugs flowing into the country, yet how little gets intercepted.

(Now, I feel almost silly using the phrase “historically legal”, but I do it for the sake of readers who carelessly assume that today’s Welfare-Warfare State is the way it was when the Bill of Rights was ratified. In that era, government did not dream of regulating plants, other than a short-lived attempt to tax the booze distilled from corn. IOW, up until the lifetime of my grandfather, government did not think it had the power to regulate plants and chemicals, let alone think that citizens would allow it to assume that power. Today’s compliance-oriented citizen is woefully ignorant of how liberty-oriented citizens used to be.)

[Emmett McCarthy]

I wondered about the line “A good horticultural resume”. Does that mean he made her like the opera? Couldn’t resist.

[robertpaulsen]

"up until the lifetime of my grandfather, government did not think it had the power to regulate plants and chemicals"

In 1807, Thomas Jefferson prohibited trade with Europe using the power of the Commerce Clause. He also prohibited alcohol sales to the Indians in 1805. (James Madison, who wrote the Commerce Clause, was his Secretary of State.)

In 1842, Congress forbade the importation of obscene literature or pictures from abroad. In 1884, the exportation or shipment in interstate commerce of livestock having any infectious disease was forbidden.

''The power to regulate commerce among the several States is granted to Congress in terms as absolute as is the power to regulate commerce with foreign nations.''
-- Brown v. Houston, 114 U.S. 622 (1885)

[Global2010]

Same county but illegal grow.
Authorities: Mexican drug cartel operating in Oregon | KATU - Portland, Oregon | Local & Regional
Address:http://www.katu.com/news/local/9186377.html Changed:5:40 PM on Sunday, August 19, 2007

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