[Fuzz420]

Tired of ity bity 22lbs bust and organized gangs. Legalize it

[OsWiZzLe]

When well these Asian cats get it....stealing power and having straps...no wonder they cant grow good herb

[ddrew]

The way I look at it is we as growers are part of a big herd, and the cops are the lions, the lions are going to get someone, I think it's nice that the Vietnamese are playing the part of the slow, dumb herd members.

As long as there's enough easy targets in the herd to keep the lions happy, the rest of us can slide by unnoticed

[zbenjii]

I think these Vietnamese growers just make up a large percentage of total grows. They're immigrants and do not know the environment here as well as Americans. Also they probably prefer to sell it on the black market because the higher prices.

[kyndone]

ok, i put this in another forum, but it look like it would fit in here, this is on the other side of the bay, in S.F., i got a good laugh out of it,


When San Francisco narcotics officers showed up at a Castro District home early on the morning of January 11, they had a search warrant for "proceeds" from an illegal marijuana grow.


But the SFPD and federal DEA officers didn't find any cannabis cash at that address, one of six raided simultaneously that morning, reports Chris Roberts at SF Weekly.


Instead, they found Clark Freshman, a UC Hastings law professor and the main consultant to the TV show Lie To Me.


Freshman was handcuffed while in his bathrobe as agents searched, despite his insistence that they had the wrong place and were breaking the law.


"I told them to call the judge and get their warrant updated," Freshman said. "They just laughed at me -- I guess that's why they're called pigs."


Soon the porcine police may be defendants, in addition to douche bags. Freshman, who is furious about the incident, has pledged to sue the DEA and the SFPD for unlawful search and seizure of his home.



Photo: UC Hastings
Professor of Law Clark Freshman: "There will not be a better litigated case this century"

​"I've been on the fence for years about the legalization of drugs ... and now I'm a victim of this crazy War On Drugs," Freshman said.


He pledged to sue until "I see [the agents'] houses sold at auction and their kids' college tuitions taken away from them."


"There will not be a better litigated case this century," Freshman said.


Freshman isn't just frontin' -- he has plenty of firepower to back up his claim. He received his B.A. from Harvard, where his senior thesis facilitated a pardon in the infamous Leo Frank case. He got his M.A. from University College, Oxford, where he was a Marshall Scholar, and a J.D. from Stanford Law School, according to the University of California, Hastings College of the Law.


For more, read Chris Roberts' story at SF Weekly.

[BornToBeWild]

I've read a few bust stories now and dont understand, why not grow what you need to smoke and tell nobody? As a person on page 2 said knew a friend for 9 years then BAM jail and hard earned money gone! If you wanna go big, might as well wear pink panties because sooner or later you are gonna be screwed!

[REZDOG]

It's a no-brainer,it was a SNITCH,in a "targeted" investigation.

Asian gangs inform on each other ALL the time-duh.

[zbenjii]

**people inform on each other.

[kyndone]

yep, Rat fur comes in many colors

[smallfry707]

Originally Posted by Hydrosun

This is the perfect place to discuss "Cops losing the drug war."

This "Gang" of 10 middle aged immigrants has now been put out of business at the expense of the tax payers of America and CA.

What do these tax payers get? $100K, 22lbs of weed off the street and 10 individuals in California no longer cultivating cannabis.

What did it cost the tax payers? ????????? I guess transparency in government spending is a really low priority. I could only guess at the costs involved; but they did mention DEA, Imigration, and Local authorities (from several counties). So my guess is the costs of this are already in the millions and after the trials, deportations, or incarcerations it certainly will be multi millions.

What about this proposition: Police will never WIN a Drug War BECAUSE it is the very essence of HUMAN nature to take drugs and alter (escape) their reality.

Outlawing HUMAN NATURE does not abolish a behavior it only changes how that behavior is expressed.

As an example it is illegal to be gay in some nations around the globe, but I doubt the genetics of babies being born in those countries recognize this law.

The absolute failure of "The drug war" is evident by this story. If this is the best prohibitionists can do to scare the country into supporting them, they'll be unemployed sooner than I thought.

wow.. i have a whole new respect for you. I strongly agree with everything you say. There are growers on this forum that grows in warehouses and people be praising them and yet when asians who get caught with 22 pounds and a couple of fire arms every1 goes nuts and say it gang related beaster grows..