PigSquishy
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If you really want to read the best two books on this subject, I'd recommend these two:
Marijuana: The Law and You : A Guide to Minimizing Legal Consequences
by Ed Rosenthal and William Logan
Ask Ed: Marijuana Law: Volume 1: Don't Get Busted Paperback – October 30, 2000
by Ed Rosenthal and William Logan
They are seriously the best two books I've read on the subject of how best to legally protect myself, and its information coming directly from lawyers and not some guy who thinks he knows the law. One of the best pieces of advice in there I ever heard was to make nice with neighbors and keep them happy, because when you are the best neighbor they like you, they stop talking about you and stop watching your every move just waiting to do something that gets you out of there and someone else to move in where you currently live. It didn't take long after hearing that I was watching some TV show and the neighbors were upset over the comings and goings of this one house, so they set up a neighborhood watch, videotaped everything going on at that house, etc... and when they had the prime opportunity they called the police and turned it all over to them. License plate numbers, times, dates, everything of who came and went... made me really think...
I became that neighbor who sees some trash on another lawn and I walk over and pick it up for you, now I hear about what other neighbors are doing and what steps they are thinking of taking against them to try to rid our neighborhood of them types of people. The best thing ever honestly was when I had a neighbor come to me and say "I am so glad you bought this house from the guy before you..." and told me things she thought of me... she seriously ran away when it was pointed out all I did was change my hair, clothes and my friends.
Over the years I've been raided three times in my lifetime... Stupid enough I had an indoor garden of just legal plants roses, tomatoes, herbs, etc... my neighbors complained to the police about being able to see my big fluorescent grow lights turning on at night, as I tried to use the sun as long as it was out through the windows and then the lights would turn on and I had to come around and close the curtains afterwards at some point. Walmart reported that I was coming in and buying large quantities of potting soil in the winter, when nobody else was buying it. Which only looked worse because I travelled across State lines to go to my nearest Walmart to shop instead of adding more hours onto the Wal-Mart trip to do it in State. Combined with my neighbors complaints about seeing things... it was enough to get me raided with the first search warrant. They found some cannabis and such, which got me a second search warrant within the week to kick in my door again, this time looking specifically for any traces of me growing cannabis. A couple of weeks after that I would get raided yet again a third time looking for proof or evidence I was selling or doing anything beyond smoking it for personal use. So many of my neighbors were convinced of it, they convinced the police and they convinced a judge... only to find out I was a smoker nothing more... but it took 2+ years to put my house back together because of it.
Today my neighbors know a lot about me, I have big outside gardens with fruit bearing trees and bushes, I am willing to share my produce with you that I gather no matter how little or much I have, I teach anyone of any age who wants to learn to garden how to do it all themselves with what they have, and not having to spend lots of money. I've proven I know my fertilizers and how to make things grow HUGE with great taste, longer shelf lives, and that leave you impressed when compared to things from others at the farmer's market and the grocery store. People keep laughing and telling me I need to grow cannabis now because of the legalization of it, and how amazing they bet it would be. Funny how before they tried to destroy me for thinking of me doing that, now they sit here and encourage it from me, all because of how their perceptions of me changed because of the people I had coming to my house.
Marijuana: The Law and You : A Guide to Minimizing Legal Consequences
by Ed Rosenthal and William Logan
Ask Ed: Marijuana Law: Volume 1: Don't Get Busted Paperback – October 30, 2000
by Ed Rosenthal and William Logan
They are seriously the best two books I've read on the subject of how best to legally protect myself, and its information coming directly from lawyers and not some guy who thinks he knows the law. One of the best pieces of advice in there I ever heard was to make nice with neighbors and keep them happy, because when you are the best neighbor they like you, they stop talking about you and stop watching your every move just waiting to do something that gets you out of there and someone else to move in where you currently live. It didn't take long after hearing that I was watching some TV show and the neighbors were upset over the comings and goings of this one house, so they set up a neighborhood watch, videotaped everything going on at that house, etc... and when they had the prime opportunity they called the police and turned it all over to them. License plate numbers, times, dates, everything of who came and went... made me really think...
I became that neighbor who sees some trash on another lawn and I walk over and pick it up for you, now I hear about what other neighbors are doing and what steps they are thinking of taking against them to try to rid our neighborhood of them types of people. The best thing ever honestly was when I had a neighbor come to me and say "I am so glad you bought this house from the guy before you..." and told me things she thought of me... she seriously ran away when it was pointed out all I did was change my hair, clothes and my friends.
Over the years I've been raided three times in my lifetime... Stupid enough I had an indoor garden of just legal plants roses, tomatoes, herbs, etc... my neighbors complained to the police about being able to see my big fluorescent grow lights turning on at night, as I tried to use the sun as long as it was out through the windows and then the lights would turn on and I had to come around and close the curtains afterwards at some point. Walmart reported that I was coming in and buying large quantities of potting soil in the winter, when nobody else was buying it. Which only looked worse because I travelled across State lines to go to my nearest Walmart to shop instead of adding more hours onto the Wal-Mart trip to do it in State. Combined with my neighbors complaints about seeing things... it was enough to get me raided with the first search warrant. They found some cannabis and such, which got me a second search warrant within the week to kick in my door again, this time looking specifically for any traces of me growing cannabis. A couple of weeks after that I would get raided yet again a third time looking for proof or evidence I was selling or doing anything beyond smoking it for personal use. So many of my neighbors were convinced of it, they convinced the police and they convinced a judge... only to find out I was a smoker nothing more... but it took 2+ years to put my house back together because of it.
Today my neighbors know a lot about me, I have big outside gardens with fruit bearing trees and bushes, I am willing to share my produce with you that I gather no matter how little or much I have, I teach anyone of any age who wants to learn to garden how to do it all themselves with what they have, and not having to spend lots of money. I've proven I know my fertilizers and how to make things grow HUGE with great taste, longer shelf lives, and that leave you impressed when compared to things from others at the farmer's market and the grocery store. People keep laughing and telling me I need to grow cannabis now because of the legalization of it, and how amazing they bet it would be. Funny how before they tried to destroy me for thinking of me doing that, now they sit here and encourage it from me, all because of how their perceptions of me changed because of the people I had coming to my house.
