Friend got busted.....

Well, shit.........I had to once again get rid of everything I had just got started. I got a call from a friend in another state that got busted, but he was a "Bigger" grower and he's in alot of shit, and looking at 10-20 (Say's leo) I didn't want to take a chance his phone is being taped and my number is being looked at and so forth. I guess it's better safe than sorry.

Does anyone have any experince or know what Leo does when you get busted as far as going thru phone records, phone tap's ect?

I guess, my buddy had a buddy that got busted for some serious shit was all he said, and that the guy was pointing fingers at him to get time off of his deal.

When it rains it poor's.........

 

I seen this on the norml site....can someone explain it a little better to me? Am I to understand that 25lbs is considerd 25 plants on the second line? It does not say anything about qty of plants until the third line down? I'm confused. Are they considering 1 plant = 1lb no matter how many plants or what their weight?


Sale or Cultivation


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Delivery of 20 g or less misdemeanor 1 year $1,000


25 lbs or less felony 5 years Prison and $5,000 fine


25 to 2,000 lbs (or 2,000 plants) felony 3 years MMS*prison and $25,000 fine.

 

The law's I posted are from FL. I don't understand how it's worded so to speak,


I guess I need to wait until my friend talks to a lawyer and see what he's really up for. Where he lives, the laws are a little less strict.

 

It fucking sucks, he has no cash for a lawyer since his bond was over $30,000 and everyone that put in to bond him out has no more money to help with that.


So am I to understand that if I had 25 small plants total, I would fall under the 2nd line of this FL law below? I'm still confused as to "25 to 2,000 lbs (or 2,000 plants)". Is it saying 25 lbs to 2,000 lbs and or 25 plants to 2,000 plants?


FL LAW


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25 lbs or less felony 5 years Prison and $5,000 fine


25 to 2,000 lbs (or 2,000 plants) felony 3 years MMS*prison and $25,000 fine.

 

I just found this......I'm going to post it on another thread if the mod's don't mind. Looks like this might be the answer to the question I posted above..


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REP. THOMPSON SEEKS TO TOUGHEN MARIJUANA LAW


TALLAHASSEE - Southwest Florida has had a long history in the battle against marijuana trafficking and production. Its history is replete with tales of abandoned airplanes, bales washing ashore and remote fields scattered about.


But times have changed. Just as biological engineering has improved the quality of such crops as corn, soybeans and rice, science has also had a hand in this cash crop.


Refined growing techniques and enhanced strands of marijuana have made the plant up to 15 times more potent than crops grown 20 years ago.


While techniques have changed law enforcement has not. Enter Rep. Nick Thompson, R-Fort Myers, who is trying to update state laws to adapt to a changing illegal business.


Growers now don't need to find remote strands of countryside to profitably cultivate their crops for commercial sale. Armed with new technology, they can as easily and more profitably set up in a house.


Grow lights, climate control and a caretaker to tend to the plants in exchange for room board and a little income becomes an increasingly attractive option. With potent marijuana selling at $4,000 a pound and up, many growers have learned that quality trumps quantity.


The use of such grow houses have been on the rise in recent years.


Florida is only outnumbered by California in the amount of grow houses.


As of 2006, law enforcement uncovered marijuana grow houses in 41 of Florida's 67 counties, according to House estimates.


Under current law, investigators must find 300 plants to determine that a defendant was growing the crop to sell.


Thompson's bill would change that by reducing the number of plants needed to be considered a commercial crop. The measure is scheduled to make its last committee stop Tuesday before going to the House floor. A similar bill is traveling in the Senate.


Thompson'- bill reduces the threshold to 25 plants. It would also make it a third degree felony to own, rent or lease a house mobile home or other structure for the purposes of establishing a grow house.


The proposal would also bump the penalties up to first degree felony if their was a child living at the house and allow law enforcement officials to destroy growing equipment once their investigation is complete.


"In Florida, those who use grow houses to traffic drugs belong in prison," Thompson said recently. "Under this legislation we are clearly telling drug dealers, 'if you grow, you go.' "

 

Well, I got another chance to talk to my buddy, and he is getting royaly fucked......they weighed his trash pile, and from 5 years of throwing branches, stalks etc on the pile....he was over 50lbs.....so mixed with his plants, he's going to jail for a while. He's so freaking out. I really feel for him.

 

I had asked him hem if they weighed the dirt. He said they didn't? I take it they ripped out the plant and weighed it with the trash pile, and I don't think they went throu lbs of branches in the trash pile to pick off the smokeable stuff either? He made it sound like they just weighed all plant material.........they must of to get over 50 lbs......it reall sucks, because he didn't sell, if he did, he wouldn't be so poor and I'm sure could afford legal counsel.

 

What bugs me is the way cops work out the price/scale of their haul!


Aye it sucks to get busted,iv been in that situation and it aint pretty! What really bugs me is they way the cops work out their prices... when they busted a house over here not long ago that was basically a grow home,every single area of the house was being used for growing but the plants were all in vegetation yet the cops tell the press and news media that the bust is the biggest MJ grow op in scotland yada yada yada but how the hell are they gonna tell us it was a £1million bust when they dont even know if ANY of the plants were even gonna be females/sensimelia...they could all have been males and thereby worthless!:disgust:


Same when they bust someones home and find a stash of weed,they take a look at it and weigh it up,now we all know that the more you buy the cheaper it is but not so with the cops,they take one look at a few kilos of weed and instead of putting the normal price on it for a few kilos'...they instead work it out how much it would be worth if you broke it down and sold it at £40 a quarter and obviously if you worked it out using there method then its gonna sound like a huge ass bust when in reality its just some growers harvest... i HATE the way cops work out the price and scale of a drugs bust,its all aimed at making their score look bigger and better than it really is...


otleaf:I REALLY DO HOPE I SEE AN END TO PROHIBTION IN MY LIFETIME COS THIS LUDICROUS SITUATION JUST CANT GO ON ANY FURTHER,NORMAL EVERYDAY FOLKS ARE TOSSED IN JAIL AND TREATED LIKE DRUG BARONS ALL COS THEY GROW A LIL WEEDotleaf::angry4: