[at-l] Pot farms in the National Forests

[Linda Benschop]

Many years ago I was taking in foster children.  One boy, 14 years old, 
seemed to doing so well.  He was never a good student but, since he had 
been with me, he seemed to be "blossoming".  He had a new hobby, 
horticulture.  It seemed to me that he just might have found a future 
career in gardening.  He had his drawers full of egg cartons and lights 
to help his plants grow.  They were growing so well that, before long, 
he starting hanging them in my kitchen, and living room, windows.  I 
constantly was praising him for his "green thumb", even bought him some 
plant food and more lights.

One day there was a knock on the front door.  It was his principle and a 
policeman.  I was telling them how great he was doing and about his 
wonderful hobby.  I brought the men into the living room where they 
seemed "very interested" in the plants.  They asked if there were any 
others.  I proudly took them to his room and showing them all the new 
plants that were started in his room. 

They both started laughing and one said " You REALLY don't know what 
these are, do you?"  I responded that I didn't know what they were 
called.  They both laughed even harder and told me that our house was 
filled with marijuana plants.  At that point, I was sure they they would 
cart me off to jail, but they were very nice and didn't do a thing to me.

As they went back to his room to check it further, they found all kinds 
of stolen items, including the American Flag that had been missing from 
his school.

After that, I never again took in teenagers.  I also realized how many 
things I DID NOT learn going to a Convent School all those years.

Hummingbird





Bror8588 at aol.com wrote:
> In a message dated 2007-07-25 10:59:22 Eastern Daylight Time, 
> jim.bullard at gmail.com writes:
>
>     Unfortunately, yes. It is fairly common for pot growers to use someone
>     else's land, not just National Forest land, to grow their crops.
>     That way
>     they have to be caught tending or harvesting it for law enforcement to
>     connect them to it.
>
> However, if the "crop" is on private land and the authorities find it 
> the owner of the land is liable for arrest and perhaps confiscation of 
> the land (depending upon the law of the state where it occurs), and 
> also may be incarcerated as well. 
>  
> Check out your property regularly.
>  
> Skylander
>
>
>
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