Topic: 86 pot plants seized in police raid
started by: TameThaTane
Posted by TameThaTane on Jul. 22 2005,2:24 pm
86 pot plants seized in police raid By Josh Verges/Austin Daily Herald
Austin Police and the Southeastern Minnesota Narcotics Task Force recovered 86 marijuana plants valued at $20,000 Thursday from an Austin home.
Authorities executed a search warrant at 10:30 a.m. Thursday at 312 37th Street Southwest.
They smelled a strong odor of marijuana as they approached, Police Chief Paul Philipp said.
Inside the home were 86 plants of marijuana in various states of growth.
Eight ounces of processed marijuana was also recovered.
Police estimated the plants could produce 20 pounds of the drug.
Philipp said a pound of marijuana is worth approximately $1,000.
In addition to the cash and plants, police recovered grow lights, fans and electrical transformers from at least two rooms in the house.
Police first found out about the activity on Wednesday, Philipp said.
A 44-year-old man was arrested at the scene and $900 in cash was forfeited.
The man was cited and released, and will likely be charged with intent to distribute a controlled substance, Philipp said.
The man reportedly told police he was growing the marijuana for medicinal purposes.
Is this the Austin trailer park by the freeway?
Posted by Botto 82 on Jul. 22 2005,2:29 pm
Got MapQuest?Yeah, that'd be Nelson's Wheel Estates all right.
Posted by TameThaTane on Jul. 22 2005,2:30 pm
Well then, that confirms your theory about trailer parks, doesn't it? 
Posted by GEOKARJO on Jul. 22 2005,2:38 pm
When you live so close to your nieghbors you can smell his farts you shouldn't mess wioth dope.
Posted by TameThaTane on Jul. 22 2005,4:08 pm
Ya, you should do "the right thing" and buy it from a dealer.
Posted by Botto 82 on Jul. 22 2005,4:58 pm
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| When you live so close to your nieghbors you can smell his farts you shouldn't mess wioth dope. |
Exactly. Use some damn discretion.
With the burgeoning meth problem, you can only expect more of this sort of thing.
Posted by TameThaTane on Jul. 22 2005,6:02 pm
Yup, the smell can only mean one thing...meth lab.
Posted by FlyguyAL on Jul. 22 2005,8:36 pm
Really? You ASSume meth lab? 
Posted by allergic to bogus on Jul. 22 2005,11:04 pm
Happened upon a raid at just before 7 this evening. The parties bought the house less than 2 mos. ago from a family friend. Drug dogs, lots of unmarked and marked cars over on Lynwood. Were taking out alot of stuff. A friend who lives down the street said there was constant activity there.:rock:
Posted by spike on Jul. 23 2005,12:21 am
Thank God, get that nasty weed off the street before somebody kills someone or something...?!? 20 lbs of weed? Who freaking cares? Although 20lbs is a little much for "medicial" use.
Posted by TameThaTane on Jul. 23 2005,12:28 am
See, it's clowns like you that confuse matters. The police simply claim his plants had the POTENTIAL to produce 20 pounds. I saw his plants on TV and that's like saying his backyard garden is going to produce 2 ton of tomatoes. Perhaps...but not very likely.No...impossible.
Believe it or not he was growing for personal use. Pot doesn't grow overnight. It's a very slow process. The man is sick and needs his medicine. This event will greatly shorten or end his life.
But you couldn't care less because you believe the hype. ---->
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| 20 lbs of weed? Who freaking cares? |
Now let's total up what it COULD be worth and really became angry and jealous. It's kooky. If cigarettes were illegal, Geo would get caught with 10 cartons of cigs and have $250,000 worth of smokes in his car! The only reason it has any value is because the government forbids it.
Posted by spike on Jul. 23 2005,12:34 am
| Quote (TameThaTane @ July 23 2005,12:28,am) |
| See, it's clowns like you that confuse matters. The police simply claim his plants had the POTENTIAL to produce 20 pounds. I saw his plants on TV and that's like saying his backyard garden is going to produce 2 ton of tomatoes. Perhaps...but not very likely. No...impossible. Believe it or not he was growing for personal use. Pot doesn't grow overnight. It's a very slow process. The man is sick and needs his medicine. This event will greatly shorten or end his life. |
Sheesh, calm down now TTT, it's OK.
I didn't see the visual evidence you are speaking of.
We can agree on this TTT, a complete waste of taxpayer money. Prosecute this guy because he was growing a little weed?
Hummmmmmmmm, free country eh?!? I have to think we have more important things in our communities then a guy growing some weed?
Posted by TameThaTane on Jul. 23 2005,12:41 am
But it's not a waste of money. It's a money maker. See his home, his car, his stereo, his computer, his TV. It's all the county attorneys and the states now....oh...and along with all his money. $900. All of this goes to the County attorney and the State of MN in 60 days automatically, unless he has thousands for a civil attorney. And of course he does not because they've seized all his assets, including any bank accounts.
You won't hear about that part of it(civil side)...just the criminal side. And remember...public defenders DO NOT handle civil cases.
See how the system is set up. Marijuana growers are treated as harshly as meth dealers.
Posted by TameThaTane on Jul. 23 2005,12:51 am
Now he's broke, homeless and on probabtion. He can't get public housing because of his drug record. Also, ALL landlords can legally discriminate against. Now he's in the system and can't use his medicine so of course he'll end up in prison or on probation for 5 to 10 years when he fails a urine test. You see, we place them in a position where they couldn't possibly succeed. He helps government grow. Now we need more police, jailers and jails and probation officers and prisons. There's a lot of jobs riding on his bust.It truly is a sickness. Now take into consideration we jail sick people and in some cases kill them over pot...
Newsbrief: DC Judge Cleared in Jail Death of Paralyzed Marijuana User 3/25/05
< http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/380/magbie.shtml >
A ten-day jail sentence for marijuana possession turned into a death sentence for a quadriplegic suburban Washington, DC, man last fall when 27-year-old Jonathan Magbie died at the DC Jail last September 24 after authorities there and at a DC hospital failed to provide proper medical attention. DC Superior Court Judge Judith Retchin, who handed down the unusually harsh sentence -- most minor pot possessors never see the inside of the jail -- was the object of especially harsh criticism from Magbie's family and supporters, but she has now been cleared of any wrongdoing by a DC judicial commission.
Retchin made only a "limited and uninformed" inquiry about Magbie's medical requirements before delivering the wheelchair-bound man over to the tender mercies of the DC Jail, the Commission on Judicial Disabilities and Tenure concluded March 17. But the report cleared her of misconduct, concluding that she acted within the law by making an effort -- no matter how feeble -- to ensure that the jail could provide for Magbie's medical needs.
The fault lay not with humans but with "failures of communication among the participants in this tragic sequence of events," the report concluded. According to the commission, communications between Retchin's staff and DC jail personnel failed to clarify that Magbie was to serve his sentence at the jail and was not a felony offender set to be sent to federal prison.
An earlier investigation of Greater Southeast Community Hospital by the DC Department of Health faulted the hospital for failing to provide adequate care after he was sent there from the jail. A DC Office of the Inspector General investigation of the actions of jail staff is pending.
While most simple marijuana possession offenders in DC receive probation, Judge Retchin said she ordered the jail sentence after Magbie told court investigators he would continue to smoke marijuana for health reasons and because a gun was found in the vehicle in which he was arrested. According to Retchin, who was interviewed for the report, if she had known about Magbie's medical needs, especially access to a ventilator while he slept, she would have selected "a period of home confinement, rather than a jail term, which would have far better served her sentencing objective," the report said, paraphrasing the judge.
Instead, Magbie and his motorized wheelchair were taken to the DC Jail. He was hospitalized during his first day there, then returned to the jail, then hospitalized again before dying half-way through his sentence.
In demonstrations outside the courthouse in the days after his death, Magbie's mother, Mary Scott bitterly criticized Retchin, a former prosecutor, calling her a murderer and demanding she be removed from the bench. Talking to a Washington Post reporter after the judge was cleared, Scott remained unmollified. "If she wanted to know if they could accommodate him, she should have tried to find out what his needs were," Scott said. "How can you say someone's going to take care of you if you don't know what they need?"
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Posted by allergic to bogus on Jul. 23 2005,2:03 pm
Spike, I agree with you on this one. I don't smoke any pot. Did years ago, realize that the stuff now is 20x more potent. Never got into it because it just made me get the munchies and want to clean the house. HMMM, I could be an obese woman with an immaculate house right now. Nah, I'll stick to pretty damn fine looking with a comfortably clean house. I think that it is a waste of $$$ and time to go after the guy. Get the frigging meth producers and users. That is the sh** that scares me. Don't believe and never have that marijuana leads to bigger and better stuff. Another drug that seems to be the one of choice is esctacy (SP?) from what my teens tell me. Too many parents in denial out there, and too many kids in our area are currently in or have been in treatment this summer. I was amazed at the ones who I have heard about. Just a heads up to all of you out there. It is out there, where are your kids? And who are they with? Check on them, they may fight you on this, but, believe me it matters to both them and you.
Posted by TameThaTane on Jul. 23 2005,2:25 pm
I mean look at this nonsense...| Quote |
| Did years ago, realize that the stuff now is 20x more potent. |
That's just plain saying..."I believe the chit they tell me because I'm stupid!"
Pot is not more potent than it was becaue it used to be sun grown sativa from mexico. Now listen what I'm about to say very carefully. The potency of cannabis is not determined by HOW MUCHTHC a plant has. It's the ratio of THC's 3 primary components!
Potent cannabis is healthier cannabis because one doesn't needlessly have to inhale large amounts of leaf material.
"Drug Czar Brown Escalates Potent Pot Follies
Claims 40 Fold Increase In THC Levels!
May 21, In an interview with the Dallas Morning News, Drug Czar Lee Brown was asked, "Why is it more dangerous for a kid to be experimenting with drugs now than when the baby boomers were in high school or college?" Brown responded, "The major illegal drug they're experimenting with is marijuana. Marijuana is 40 times more potent today than was the case 10, 15, 20 years ago... I don't think that young people know that. It is really not getting covered very well."
In other recent statements Brown has claimed that potency has increased only 6 to 10 fold. He did not offer any explanation for this escalation, nor did he offer any explanation for why he is contradicting Alan Leshner, the head of the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) who says that potency is only 3 times higher than in the past. Brown also did not explain why the only large scale testing of contraband marijuana, sponsored by NIDA, shows no increase in potency since the early 1980's. As for it not being reported, the potent pot myth has been repeated in almost every major publication in America. It has become the single most accepted lie about marijuana in the mainstream media. Recently, both NEW YORK magazine and syndicated columnist George Will have claimed that potency is 15 times higher than in the past. Ironically, the Dallas Morning News cut that one sentence from the Will column. NORML finds no valid evidence of any increase in average potency."
Posted by TameThaTane on Jul. 23 2005,2:28 pm
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| It has become the single most accepted lie about marijuana in the mainstream media |
Yup! It sure worked on our own allergic to bogus!!
Hrmmm...that's funny, I thought you were allergic to bogus! LOL
Posted by AbLincoln on Jul. 23 2005,3:22 pm
Hey Brain Damage:If you don’t want to go to jail, stop breaking the law. It’s just that simple. I don’t break the law, why should you be able to just because you’re a (illegal drug) addict.
Posted by FlyguyAL on Jul. 23 2005,8:21 pm
Good point AbLincoln. Along with that Tame you brought GEO's issue up earlier. At least he has brought his issue to the city council and is working with people outside the Albert Lea Forum. What kind of difference do you think you are making?
Posted by TameThaTane on Jul. 23 2005,9:09 pm
Users can't be advocates you moron! No, it's not that simple Ab...Guess who said this?
"Prohibition will work great injury to the cause of temperance. It is a species of intemperance within itself, for it goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation, and makes a crime out of things that are not crimes. A Prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded."
Abraham Lincoln (1809-65), U.S. President.
Speech, 18 Dec. 1840, to Illinois House of Representatives
Posted by FlyguyAL on Jul. 23 2005,9:39 pm
| Quote (TameThaTane @ July 23 2005,9:09,pm) |
| Users can't be advocates you moron! |
So you don't use cannabis?
Posted by AbLincoln on Jul. 24 2005,12:01 am
I’m glad Brain Damage found a smart person to quote! Stop making excuses for yourself and stop breaking the law. Get on your bike and ride it down to Fountain Centers. I’m sure Dr. Shaman will help you get a bed. He must have cut off you supply of drugs at some time. Read below quotes. | Quote |
| TameThaTane July 10 2005,3:58,pm What are you trying to do, kill my drug business? |
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| TameThaTaneJuly 16 2005,3:13,pm Bring it on and I'll be happy to get some of your assets in court! |
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| TameThaTane July 16 2005,2:38,am Quack and kook. Anyone who would even have him as a doctor loses all respect in my eyes. He's the welfare doctor. He shall be dubbed Dr. Shame man. |
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| TameThaTane July 16 2005,11:08,pm Shaman is a quack. Ask someone who works in the hospital. |
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| TameThaTane July 17 2005,7:46,am He's a quack, a kook....I can't tell you how...you'll just have to trust me. Every single hospital worker I've talked to said they wouldn't see him if he were the only doctor in town and these are health care employees. |
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| TameThaTane July 18 2005,10:36,am Shamans a nut...a kook...a quack |
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| TameThaTane July 10 2005,3:58,pm What are you trying to do, kill my drug business? |
Dr. Shaman must be a fine responsible doctor if he cut you off.
Posted by TameThaTane on Jul. 24 2005,12:14 am
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| Stop making excuses for yourself and stop breaking the law. |
So it's all about breaking the law...where's your moral outrage?
How about you stop making me a criminal!
Posted by AbLincoln on Jul. 24 2005,1:53 am
NO! Just say no.
Posted by TameThaTane on Jul. 24 2005,1:57 am
Just say know...free people can just say yes.
Posted by AbLincoln on Jul. 24 2005,2:22 am
This is absolute Brain Damage! Do not let this happen to your kids.| Quote |
| TameThaTane July 24 2005,1:57,am Just say know...free people can just say yes. Edited by TameThaTane on July 24 2005,2:01,am |
Dr. Shaman must be a fine responsible doctor if he cut you off.
Posted by TameThaTane on Jul. 24 2005,3:01 am
I got my own personal troll... 
Posted by allergic to bogus on Jul. 24 2005,10:10 am
Does this not make sense to you, TTT? If I haven't tried pot in many years and others who have tell me that it is, I just may go with that? Don't need to smoke a bowl just to find out, thank you...
Posted by TameThaTane on Jul. 24 2005,2:00 pm
Oh yes...duh...dar dar...if someone told you that it must be true...duh..dar dar...
Posted by Botto 82 on Jul. 24 2005,2:32 pm
| Quote (AbLincoln @ July 23 2005,3:22,pm) |
| Hey Brain Damage: |
All posts directed at 3T should start thisaway.
Posted by FlyguyAL on Jul. 24 2005,6:24 pm
He He
Posted by REPOMAN on Jul. 24 2005,9:05 pm
The board dickhead started posting under his new alias in late May and has already racked up 633 posts as of earlier today...he has to be laying around collecting a welfare check, dreaming about putting Tyvek around a greenhouse full of pot plants while checking the internet every other minute to see if there is some new post that he can respond to and enlighten everyone with his unbounding knowledge and expertice on virtually every topic known to mankind...
what a maroon...
Posted by TameThaTane on Jul. 24 2005,9:19 pm
Yup, and you've read every one too! Wanna stay on topic or are you just gonna troll in my thread? If so, you may require a warning don't you think?
If you just want to post your opinions of me, you should start a separate thread in opinion or miscellaneous. It's not fair to others who are readin the thread for it's relevant content.
Posted by FlyguyAL on Jul. 24 2005,9:50 pm
| Quote (TameThaTane @ July 24 2005,9:19,pm) |
| Wanna stay on topic |
You don't.
Posted by TameThaTane on Jul. 24 2005,9:53 pm
From here on out I do! If I didn't, I was wrong...It's one thing to stray from a topic and another to straight out troll a referee.. Know the difference.
Posted by FlyguyAL on Jul. 24 2005,10:20 pm
Thank you
Posted by REPOMAN on Jul. 25 2005,8:20 am
I've got your troll swingin' Willie Tha Wonka...obviously you "troll" behind every poster here...
Tame that deusche bag...
all of the posters on the Forum roar with laughter AT you chickenlips...
640 and counting - what a maroon...
Posted by irisheyes on Jul. 25 2005,3:25 pm
| Quote (REPOMAN @ July 25 2005,8:20,am) |
| what a maroon... |
A maroon? I'm usually not picky about spelling, since mine isn't the best. But that's twice you've called him a color.
Posted by Liberal on Jul. 25 2005,3:36 pm
"What a maroon" was some Warner Brother character's malapropism for "What a moron" a couple decades ago.
Posted by TameThaTane on Jul. 25 2005,3:41 pm
It's all good. I know Repo is still stinging from all the porn king ribbing he took years ago.
Posted by REPOMAN on Jul. 25 2005,3:47 pm
| Quote (Liberal @ July 25 2005,3:36,pm) |
| "What a maroon" was some Warner Brother character's malapropism for "What a moron" a couple decades ago. |
That's right Liberal...
I think it was Bugs Bunny referring to Yosemite Sam...
BozoThaClown knows what it means...
I'm guessing The Cartoon Network is his favorite channel...
I can see him setting down the bong and laughing hysterically at old episodes of Felix the Cat...
probably takes his mind off the munchies...
Posted by Big Hit on Jul. 25 2005,3:50 pm
All of this arguing about swag plants from Austin. Maybe if it was some White Widow it'd be worth it, but Austin dirt, no thanks. I'd rather take a couple of hits off of an Aquanet bottle. We should all be able to grow whatever we want in our closets or basements. Alaska has the right idea, and the killer, stinky nuggets! Burn one down, not snort one up.
Posted by TameThaTane on Jul. 25 2005,3:50 pm
Nope, don't watch cartoons like you do...C-Span, MSNBC (Imus), Discovery channel, SNL. Sometimes MTV and VH 1.
Posted by TameThaTane on Jul. 25 2005,3:52 pm
White widow is only average. On a scale from 1 to 10 it's about a 5. Ever hear of Cindy 99?
Posted by Botto 82 on Jul. 25 2005,4:10 pm
| Quote (TameThaTane @ July 25 2005,3:50,pm) |
| Sometimes MTV and VH 1. |
MTV - for viewers age 8 months to 8 years.
Yeah, that's your demographic.
Posted by Big Hit on Jul. 25 2005,4:22 pm
| Quote (TameThaTane @ July 25 2005,3:52,pm) |
| White widow is only average. On a scale from 1 to 10 it's about a 5. Ever hear of Cindy 99? I'm king of world and you only wish you knew... |
Right Dude, you're Albert Lea's all knowing bong hitter. You've never even had really White Widow or whatever else you claim is better. You couldn't get it if you wanted. Keep talking up your SWAG dope.
Posted by Big Hit on Jul. 25 2005,5:17 pm
Wow, you have looked at the High Times website too, either that or you are a complete douche because your posting give the police the right to get a warrant to get your information from your IPS provider. It was an amendment to the child pornography laws recently passed, any pictures of illegal activies, including your little garden up there, are grounds for a search warrant. You'd better start watching out the window jackass. Can't wait to see your face on KAAL tonight. Seriously guy, are really that much of a horse's ass? It appears so. moron
Posted by TameThaTane on Jul. 25 2005,5:27 pm
Whos garden?
Posted by Big Hit on Jul. 25 2005,10:00 pm
Nice try. Rosey Palmer the cop will be over later.