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Posted by FoM on July 06, 2001 at 09:07:04 PT By Marty Roney, Montgomery Advertiser Source: Montgomery Advertiser 
Because of the use of airpower to combat drugs, many marijuana growers in Alabama have moved their operations indoors. Pot plants can have a street value of about $2,000 each, said Sgt. Keith Kelley, with the Alabama Bureau of Investigation's Marijuana Eradication Program. The success of the program, which uses helicopters and airplanes to spot pot, has forced many growers to tend their crops inside. The state started the eradication program in 1982. Over the past three or four years, the number of "indoor grow" busts has increased, Kelley said. "When we first started flying the program, it wasn't unusual to find 20 or 30 acre fields of marijuana. While we still find some large plots from time to time, they are rare," Kelley said. Indoor marijuana operations have been on the rise in Autauga and Elmore counties. In 1999 in Autauga County, there were 2,103 marijuana plants found. Two indoor operations netted 1,171 and 852 plants, respectively, ABI figures show. "We are seeing more indoor operations," Sheriff Herbie Johnson said. "We credit that directly to the eradication program and consistent drug enforcement throughout the year." Johnson says it's not unusual to find operations that include ultraviolet lights on timers, reflective materials on walls and systems that give the plants regular doses of liquid fertilizer. All the special equipment is used to increase yields, just as farmers of legal crops do. "You can raise a bunch of plants in a converted bedroom," Johnson said. "The advantages of indoor grow is it's harder for law enforcement to find the plants, and the grower controls the environment. You don't have to worry about drought or someone just stumbling across the plot." So what's law enforcement's best tool for combating the new threat? Good, old-fashioned police work, said Elmore County Sheriff Bill Franklin. Last week Franklin's department arrested a Tallassee woman after discovering 70 marijuana plants growing in her attic. "You work your intelligence gathering just like you do in any crime," he said. "It's human nature not to keep secrets. Somebody who is growing inside is going to talk sooner or later to a friend. That friend is going to talk. We get that information and use good investigative techniques to build a case. We gather enough evidence to get a search warrant and hit the grower." Recently, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the use of heat detection devices from outside the home violates the constitutional protection against illegal searches. Most indoor growers elevate the temperature in rooms where pot is cultivated. Infrared radar can detect the hot spots. Indoor operations may be on the rise, but that doesn't mean the old-fashioned method of outdoor plots is a thing of the past. Matthew Brown of Montgomery discovered about a dozen marijuana plants last fall growing on hunting club property near the Montgomery and Lowndes county lines. "We were bushhogging brush getting ready to plant food plots for deer season," he said. "The plants were spread out around the edge of an opening in the woods. We knew what they were when we saw them. We just bushhogged the pot along with the goldenrod and ragweed. I would have liked to have seen the growers' faces when they snuck back on the place and saw what we did." Source: Montgomery Advertiser (AL) Related Articles: High-Tech Devices Require a Warrant Court Limits Police's High-Tech Search of Homes CannabisNews Articles - Pot Growing Home Comment Email Register Recent Comments Help |
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Comment #16 posted by trevor lepard on September 04, 2001 at 14:33:53 PT:
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| you sound like some redneck wanna-be cop....mind your own business [ Post Comment ] |
| Comment #15 posted by meagain on July 09, 2001 at 05:53:34 PT |
| "We were bushhogging brush getting ready to plant food plots for deer season," he said. "The plants were spread out around the edge of an opening in the woods. We knew what they were when we saw them. We just bushhogged the pot along with the goldenrod and ragweed. I would have liked to have seen the growers' faces when they snuck back on the place and saw what we did." [ Post Comment ] |
| Comment #14 posted by Monvor on July 07, 2001 at 05:12:41 PT |
| "...We just bushhogged the pot along with the goldenrod and ragweed. I would have liked to have seen the growers' faces when they snuck back on the place and saw what we did." A**HOLE! [ Post Comment ] |
| Comment #13 posted by dddd on July 07, 2001 at 00:19:25 PT |
| ..New,,from the BudTrac division of Bustington Technologies. This new hi-tech gadget is the latest thing in the world of drug sensing technologies.This latest sniffer device can detect Marijuana plants from up to 1000 feet from the plants. This type stuff will be the next thing to emerge....As most know,,the [ Post Comment ] |
| Comment #12 posted by SWAMPIE on July 06, 2001 at 23:49:48 PT |
| Whoops,again!!I didn't realize that by using the upper case lettering that I was shouting.Sorry!I am still somewhat of a novice when it comes to communicating with otthers via computer.The last blowout made me think a bit,and I sure didn't mean to be so hostile.Please forgive me.I sincerely hope you are feeling better,the stress of this must be hard sometimes,but such a noble cause!By the way,I didn't even know,but "The Beverly Hillbillies" movie was just on t.v.!LOL!!I was talking in that other thread,just trying to defuse/inspire others to have a little humor,as it was getting me wound up!It backfired,though,and I will take the blame.40 lashes with a wet bud,but when it's dry,you gotta let me smoke it!LOL!!!I'm going to bed,been a long week!PEACE,LOVE,CRABS,AND DOPE! SWAMPIE [ Post Comment ] |
| Comment #11 posted by mayan on July 06, 2001 at 16:14:13 PT |
| The very fact that they try to eradicate cannabis is indicative of their intelligence level. There is so much killer nug around that it makes my head spin! Supply & demand. These idiots will never wipe out the sacred herb....NEVER!!!HAAAAHAAHAHAAHAHAA!...BWAAAHAHAAHAHAHAAAA!...AAHAAAHAHAHA!!! [ Post Comment ] |
| Comment #10 posted by FoM on July 06, 2001 at 15:41:34 PT |
| THOUGHT I'D SHOUT BACK AT YA! Really please don't let this get you upset. It's just not worth it. It will all be ok. I'm working on a web page. It's one I need to redo to fix a little font problem I've been having. It's not hard just time consuming. I'll be checking for news though! [ Post Comment ] |
| Comment #9 posted by Lehder on July 06, 2001 at 15:33:44 PT |
| http://www.himawari-net.co.jp/e_home.html http://www.swinter.com/projects/fiber_optic_daylighting.html [ Post Comment ] |
| Comment #8 posted by SWAMPIE on July 06, 2001 at 15:31:52 PT |
| WHOOPS,I THINK IT IS "FLOCCINOCCINIHILIPILIFICATION" IT HAS BEEN A LONG TIME SINCE I CHECKED THE SPELLING!@ [ Post Comment ] |
| Comment #7 posted by SWAMPIE on July 06, 2001 at 15:28:15 PT |
| SPEAKING OF WORDS,HOW ABOUT "FLOSSINOSSINIHILIPILIFICATION"???IT MEANS ALWAYS DEEMING THINGS/ACTS AS WORTHLESS.I THIMK....NEIL??????? LOL!!!!!SWAMPIE KAP,ENJOY!! [ Post Comment ] |
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Comment #6 posted by Dan B on July 06, 2001 at 14:08:28 PT:
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| No offense intended, Kaptinemo, and I'm sure you are quite aware of this already, but the word you meant to use was allusion, not alliteration. Sorry to be so picky, but I figured you're an intelligent person, and you would likely want to correct it. Good point about Nuremburg being lost on the lumpenproletariat police (great word, by the way). Most of those thugs don't know Germany from Brazil. I do, however, know of one cop who has almost completed the Ph.D. in English literature, and he's a pretty smart guy. He's also very much against the drug war. Go figure. Dan B [ Post Comment ] |
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Comment #5 posted by kaptinemo on July 06, 2001 at 12:55:20 PT:
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| Yep, that's it! The 'dumbing down' curriculums are to blame for the piss-poor math skills exhibited by grown-up products of the American public school system! (I have a T-shirt that says "Another Brilyunt Mind Diztroyed by the Publik Edukashun Sistum". Rather apt, don't you think?) Even worse has been the fact that with so many of American industries going overseas, what do we do with all the borderline unemployables? They can't read, they can't do math, they can't think logically, what are we to do? In the 1970's one of the favorite Federal programs Conservatives like to poke fun at was something called CETA, which amounted to little more than government-subsidized makework. Well, the Conservatives shut that down along with a host of arguably useful programs. So what do we have for the lumpenproletariat to do, since they can't do anything useful? What else? The War on (Some) Drugs! It's perfect! Many cops evidently can't read very well (witness how many times drug raids have been conducted against the wrong house, simply because Officer Boot misread the address on the warrant - when he had one, that is) so they don't need to hone any higher skills than pistol marksmanship, baton-bashing, door-smashing and pepper-spraying. All they have to do is 'follow orders'. Since they failed history, the alliteration to Nuremburg would be completely lost on them. And since many can't spell worth a damn, they'd be less likely to look it up in a dictionary, anyway. Just think: if your child is 'slow', moody, prone to violence, having a hard time in school, and in danger of not acquiring a useful education, don't worry; when he or she gets out, graduated without understanding a bloody thing, you needn't fear: there's a career waiting for them in law enforcement! [ Post Comment ] |
| Comment #4 posted by Lehder on July 06, 2001 at 12:44:17 PT |
| that's Codswollop http://www.kenes.com/Ises.Abstracts/ISESAbstractsByNumber.htm [ Post Comment ] |
| Comment #3 posted by Lehder on July 06, 2001 at 12:29:42 PT |
| http://www.bushhog.com/ http://www.swinter.com/company/WinterGreen/JuneJuly2000.pdf yup, gotta get down to alabamy. [ Post Comment ] |
| Comment #2 posted by aocp on July 06, 2001 at 11:09:21 PT |
| Some cop sez: Pot plants can have a street value of about $2,000 Well, that's a neat number that's b-i-i-i-i-i-g and No wonder our math skills suck in this country ... if they [ Post Comment ] |
| Comment #1 posted by TroutMask on July 06, 2001 at 10:56:05 PT |
| Duh...we try to stop it outside and they move inside. We try to stop it inside but they move outside. Wheee! Job security! BUT now there's a new issue: The primary means of securing a search warrant for an indoor grow room has been removed. Do you know how hard it will be to secure a search warrant for a grow operation without heat sensing devices??? Very Hard! For the average HOME grower (not the big warehouses, mind you), you won't get a search warrant based solely on electric bills since the fluctuations tend to be so small and influenced by myriad things. That pretty much leaves eye witness reports and how many people are turning in their friend the grower? Not many, for sure. So...growing marijuana indoors has just become very safe from a "getting caught" standpoint. If it wasn't illegal, I'd tell everyone to do it! If it wasn't illegal... -TM [ Post Comment ] |
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