How many grows have you harvested Jasper ? Online study for Professor of Cannabis doesn't constitute a grow.
SWIM has done a couple, even raided by cops and taken to court... allegedly the mastermind/brains behind a plantation, 'allegedly'. Really clutching at straws to get something more for all their efforts
They didn't find any product, no smoking utensils, no scales, baggies, fertiliser, etc.
Dogs found no drugs.
No medication, not even a cigarette.
Straightee 180
Yep, they seized books & magazines - 'educational' reading material.
It was before the internet. The books all had the receipts in them, being used as bookmarks, evidence they were all acquired legally.
Cops tried hard to make something stick even after a bit of 'roughing up' during interrogation - the big city cops did that shit back in the 90's when they visited 'Shit-town' Aus. They were very pissed off when they realised they were misled about something their intel had told them was 'big-time'. Disappointed after all their efforts, all they had was one nerd and a wayward adolescent in over his head and not some organised crime gang.
SWIM was very lucky he didn't set foot in the grow area during the surveillance, nothing could stand up in court that could tie him to the grow.
SWIM'S close friend - just hours before, gets caught with 2 x 25L containers full of nutrient rich water, balls deep in a plantation, cops searched his place, found lots of evidence - he did 3 years in prison.
Every wayward teen had a grow somewhere in Shit-town but usually just one or two deep in the bush at the back of their properties - growing was no big deal as long as it was kept discreet.
SWIMS close friend however did way too much mouthing off and boasting as a sales pitch (tell them what they want to hear) - that's what got him unwanted attention, along with selling a narc some cured product that was of sufficient quality to arouse suspicion that there may be some truth behind all his boasting.
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