i read somewhere that growers were/have gotten away from getting royally hammered for grow operations because of the idiocracy behind all of this....

the laws state "Cannabis Sativa", just as this thread is titled, so they grow Cannabis Indica, and some have gotten away with it, or with extremely reduced sentences...

examples ( yes, im sorry, i know people)

1: my uncle Angelo... was in cahoots with this dude kinda in the foothills, he had a growing operation consisting of 6 (i think it was) 90 foot semi trailers buried 30 feet under ground, and an elevator that took him down that that was in an area in his closet... they guy had something like 5000 high grade plants, well the DEA nailed him, and told him they wanted "his guy" and they would cut his sentence drastically, so he set my uncle up... my uncle was living at our old house in Preston, and he burried 2 90 foot semi trailers in the hillside on the back side of the property, i believe we still have the paper that was addressed to my parents by the state and law enforcement saying they have investigated it, and if it continues, they would seize the property... anyways my uncle got popped with the trailers full of plants, and he has a damn good lawyer, he also has the money to pay for said lawyer legally, he owns a few Porno stores that my grandfather started in Renton, and makes a measly 250+k a year doing it...

anyways, dude that was originally busted, fled the country to the Cayman Islands from what everyone has been told, so my uncle was left to deal with the wrath of all of it... he served a whopping 1 year in jail for it... ONE year, for probably 1-2k plants...

2:my friends dad... we never knew what was going on... the only thing we knew, is that he was always walking around with 2 fat ass wads of cash in his pocket... when my friend asked for money, he would peel him off 500 bucks and tell him to have fun... the guy had tricked out trucks, a 24ft Duckworth jet sled, multiple houses, cabins, companies, and his main 4 million dollar home...

what he was doing was beyond crazy, but in a way, sheer genius... he had 4 or 5 houses here that were growing operations, that he would completely convert, and pay people to live there and keep up the house to make it look like nothing was going on... he also had houses in other states, like Kentucky and Missouri i think it was... anyways, the sh!ts cheap here, 2000 bucks a pound is an average price for high scale operations and medical co ops as well... so what was he doing?

he had the houses on cycles, each house would crop out at a certian time, giving him a constant revolving supply of product, but he wasnt selling it here for the measly 2k, but using his buddys private plane to fly the sh!t to Florida, where he was getting 6k a pound for it... he was making anywhere between 130k to 250k A MONTH, for over 5 years... the DEA, FBI, ATF, IRS and RPD raided his house one early morning, waking my buddy up with shotguns in his face, and arresting his dad, for everything from tax evasion, to manufacturing, to distribution, ect ect ect... he paid 495k dollars in restitution, lost a couple of properties to cover other costs, lost his boats, trucks, guns (he was a huge hunter), and this is the kicker... he spent a whopping 2 years in a minimum security prison down south in WA, a prison that wasnt even fenced in, that he could have just left if he was stupid enough to do so...

he kept his huge house, cabin, businesses, ect, because he had the bank to pay for that lawyer before he even got himself into trouble, he easily could have gotten 30-40 years, but nope... the RPD HATES that family because of that, and i have been harrassed driving my friend, his sons car... the car itself sticks out like a sore thumb tho, and everyone knows it or has seen it in the Highlands back when we were terrorizing the pavement with it...

wanna know what he does now?


he goes to church... that and builds houses, but hes a religious man now i guess... funny what stuff will do to a man when they screw up...