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found a patch of pot growing on private property, My families woods! :what:we have the police on the way now, but this is just a reminder to be careful, these guys can be dangerous if confronted in the area, luckily nobody was there, and we got out without incident.
 
Glad you're okay. A good reminder to carry the tools necessary to defend oneself, should that unfortunate scenario arise.
 
You sure it's been planted and not just growing wild? When I lived in southeastern Minnesota, wild pot was more plentiful than dandelions. It was a local joke whenever you saw a out-of-state plate on a car parked suspiciously nearby......
 
the stuff does grow wild, and there are some awfully large plants in some places that weren't put there on purpose or with desire...

might try some curtail or round up to try and eradicate it.
 
Pot, or ditchweed?

http://www.reason.com/blog/show/127955.html

A perennial story in the annals of drug war stupidity is the Drug Enforcement Administration's tally of cannabis plants destroyed under its Domestic Cannabis Eradication/Suppression Program. Year after year, the figures show that nearly all of the eradicated plants are ditchweed, the feral, nonpsychoactive descendants of hemp that American farmers used to legally grow for fiber. A couple years ago, for instance, I noted that "98 percent of the 223 million or so cannabis plants 'eradicated' by American law enforcement agencies in 2005 were feral hemp." Since these plants do not contain enough THC to get anyone high, the program is a vivid illustration of how drug warriors waste taxpayer money. NORML's Paul Armentano reports that the DEA seems finally to have wised up:

How much ditchweed did police confiscate in 2007? That would be anyone's guess.

Upon referencing Table 4.38 (Number of marijuana plants eradicated and seized, arrests made, weapons seized, and value of assets seized under the Drug Enforcement Administration's Domestic Cannabis Eradication/Suppression Program, by State, 2007) in the latest version of the Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics, visitors will discover that the column that previously reported on "ditchweed" seizures (in prior years' tables, it was seventh column from the left) is now conspicuously missing.
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Hemp grows all over the place. A LEO and myself dried some of it years ago; his dope sniffing dog would not alert on it.
 
might try some curtail or round up to try and eradicate it.
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Or head to your local college campus and tell the kid with the Phish shirt about it. Your property will be spotless in a week.
 
Growing Wild

We had an old Sheriff a few years back that always managed to get big headlines just prior to elections. Seems he always was able to find where marijuana was growing. The rest of the story is that the area where he always found it was on a bluff (not easily accessable) near land upon which hemp was grown at one time to make rope during the 40s. Seems birds or whatever had deposited seeds along the bluff. It now grows wild in these remote areas. I doubt if THC level was high at all - but we always got a good laugh at all the publicity.
 
When I was a boy and growing up in s. Minnesota I had found many hemp plants, the color is a dingy green, this stuff today was an emerald green, very bright. Growing in mounded rows and staked up with sticks to provide support. I probably would not have noticed it if it had been harvested at 6' or so but it had been allowed to grow to 10-12'. It literally dwarfed the surrounding brush and weeds. It had been cared for over a period of time, fertilizer bags, a milk jug with the top cut out to haul water from the creek nearby, it was someones project no doubt, and are they going to be pissed! The Agents carried out 26 plants some with stalks 1.5" -2" in diameter. He estimated $100K, I dunno, but they were some impressive looking plants. I looked the rest of the woods over and found nothing more. Just remember it's harvest time for stuff like this, so if you are doing some scouting for that perfect stand site, keep your eyes open for anything!!
 
Just a few months ago they discoverd a huge pot (wacky weed)growing operation just a few mile from my house. I forget how many millions it was worth but those growers were camped out in the high mountains and were serious about it. The law thought it was some drug cartel that had come into the area. I always go armed especially in the woods. Oh yea they also busted a moonshine operation a few weeks after that. You never know what you are going to find and those people will shoot at you in a heart beat.
 
Pot plantations are getting to be big business here in Utah. 3 busts in the last month have yielded almost 50,000 cultivated plants tended by illegals. People need to be observant and careful when wandering in the wilds.
 
When I was a kid,(about a thousand years ago) the LEOS in Massachusetts used to pull it up out of the cracks in the P-town sidewalks on Cape Cod. I wonder if it stills grows wild there?
 
Every time I've found it, it's in a 5 gallon bucket with rabbit cage around it. Otherwise, I wouldn't know it from hog weeds.
 
Stupid to do it on private property.

Here, the National Forest is a better choice.

Unless it's a pretty big patch, it's not someone "dangerous", most likely. It's a local kid who wants some weed without having to deal with a nasty-ass dealer (assuming the stuff's cultivated at all). I'd be more concerned about having a few stupid hippies tromping around and scaring away game, than about guys with machine guns.

Man, so much paranoia. Maybe some of you should lay off the weed...

Personally, I've been uninterested in the stuff. But millions of Americans smoke it recreationally, and 99% of them pose no threat to anything but nearby bulk snack foods. Haven't you met anyone who smokes pot?
 
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well , they would have only found a dozen plants if it was my land :)

There used to be very good forums for american growers on the web as well.
All the smart people always stated to stay off others private property!

If a peaceful weedsmoker just wants to grow his own and
stay out of the gangbangers-crime-scene i think it is okay.
BUT not on my or your land.

i´d have done the same as you - even if i had a plant or two around myself.


if the majority of responsible hemp-lovers AND gun-lovers would unite
you could bring your own candidate to the election IMHO.

..it´s about freedom and de-regulation after all.
 
Oh, don't get me wrong. I'd call the cops.

But only for one reason: if it's my property, I'd want to be on record as the first to report it. That could keep me from being a suspect. And hell, it's my property, not some stoner's.

Part of me, though, would hate to do it, because I have no desire to support the stupid "war on drugs" that saps my tax dollars, gives jobs at my expense to thugs and bureaucrats, and robs us of our civil liberties (including the "us" like me who don't use any illegal "substances" at all).
 
Knowing nothing about growing said "weed", I was listening to a radio show when a guest talked about the non-sense of confiscating and burning of cultivated crop when "all they have to do" is introduce wild marijuana. The cultivated crop is off one sex and bred for its THC, whereas adding seeds to a wild plant can ruin the crop and have a low THC content.
I do not know the legitimacy of this, but it does intrigue me. If true would be an interesting way of ruining a crop without using jack-booted thugs, fear and intimidation, all the while allowing the stoner/growers the option to not waste their time/effort in a certain area.
 
If true would be an interesting way of ruining a crop without using jack-booted thugs, fear and intimidation,
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And why would the man NOT want to use these familiar, reliable tactics?

That budget chocked full of Homeland Defence money has to be spent on something...
 
@ Eric

that is partly true.

If u have ditchweed all over the place - male pollen will
cause seeds in the drup-hemp - spoiling the quality and
drastically reducing the harvest.

The seeded Pot is still potent - and good enuff for recreational
use of normal folks - but not commercially fit anymore.
This way the normal folks, who just want to relax can have their
lil bit of smoke - while the gangs commercial sellers will be out
of the game. Good strategy & pro liberty.

The genetic lines of those harvested seeds will develop onto
the Fire Hemp side..... and be pretty much useless within a few generations.

Passionate hobby growers will go around this and replant
pure gene-lines each spring to maintain potency, taste etc....

So overall - a way better idea to curb the problem,
than by sheer stupid expensive force.

(Or just legalize it)


(rant off!)
 
ArmedBear,

West Coast pot growers just might be a little different from Central and Eastern growers. Pot patches on private property are a problem in the SE U.S. so what you're familiar with may not be our experience.

We have to contend with people coming onto our property, clearing land and then ringing the place with treble hooks on fine fishing line hung at face level, foot pits with spikes in them and pollution from their pirate commercial operations. Nothing paranoid about being informed, showing caution and being able to defend yourself on your own land.
 
ArmedBear,

West Coast pot growers just might be a little different from Central and Eastern growers. Pot patches on private property are a problem in the SE U.S. so what you're familiar with may not be our experience.
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Yep, ArmedBear, many of these redneck pot growers around here would just as soon kill you as look at you, if they think you discovered their stash and are going to report it. That's how they earn a livin, and they're going to protect it.

(Or just legalize it)
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Absolutely.
 
Ah.

That IS different.

Sounds like... Prohibition.

Time to sell pot same as they sell beer and cigarettes, IMO. Actually, it was never time not to. The whole War on (some) Drugs is stupid.
 
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