Denver's Residential Pot Grow Houses

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New story from KUSA out of Denver

Maybe PWHerr has seen it.

KUSA 9News in Denver recently found itself on the trail of a great story, but the trail also lead through an ethical minefield.

The station's investigative reporter Jace Larson learned that Colorado's medicinal marijuana laws allow licensed growers to cultivate pot for customers holding prescriptions, but nobody anticipated what would happen next. The station learned that the growers are raising plants in their homes. Right there in neighborhoods, in high-end gated communities and neighbors have no clue.

The station gained the trust of a grower who allowed cameras in his house, showing a stunningly elaborate ventilation, lighting and irrigation system.

The station, with the help of local law enforcement, gained a list of all of the licensed grow operations in the Denver area. Armed with this information, the station could easily have built an interactive map, showing anybody who wanted to know, where the pot is growing. But V.P. for News Patti Dennis worried that information would make the grow houses a target for criminals.

So KUSA had to balance those concerns against the mission of journalism, to find information and tell it as fully as possible. To make things more complicated, as soon as the station aired a promo about the upcoming story, Drug Enforcement Agents raided the home of the key character in the story and arrested him for growing more pot than he was licensed to grow. In Colorado, pot growers can grow up to six plants for each patient they are licensed to serve.

The video pops right up on the station's player.

Link to the video:

http://link.brightcove.com/services/...id=66379363001

[pwherr]

The law is so new and so vague. They have "busted" a few where I live and had to let them go. They pass this and then have no clue where the line is. They should have had all the rules laid out before they passed this IMO. This guy said he had 13 prescriptions at 6 plants ea that's 78 plants. They will end up letting him go also.

[pwherr]

Side note
Good thing I gave that up a long time ago. I have a relative in health care that would write a script for me then I could smoke it all day long I would be pretty popular.

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Originally Posted by pwherr

The law is so new and so vague. They have "busted" a few where I live and had to let them go. They pass this and then have no clue where the line is. They should have had all the rules laid out before they passed this IMO. This guy said he had 13 prescriptions at 6 plants ea that's 78 plants. They will end up letting him go also.

Well, he wasn't even busted. He was talking about $400,000 earned with the next harvest, which he does four times a year. That's some damn sweet cash! And their rule about 6 plants per customer is stupid. Are you kidding me? He's not making over a million a year on 13 customers!! Where are all these people with pain or glaucoma that have $100,000 a year to spend on pot??? I think he was caught in a lie on tape, but nobody called him on it. Not only that, but why is he showing off the "High Times Plant of the Year" as his prize crop??? Really? You can't soothe people's pain with less than the "High Times Plant of the Year?" Freakn' joke.

Don't get me wrong....I don't care who does what drug, but don't lie to me.

That make me angry, and you wouldn't like me when I'm angry.

[pwherr]

He for sure isn't making that much money with that few people. They do have all different grades it isn't just a pharmaceutical grade for all. Like a fuking grocery store here.

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I remember when I was moving to SLC. I drove my Uhaul up, towing my truck. On my last night before the home stretch, I stayed outside of Denver. It happened to be election night, and I was watching the news. Apparently, Denver voters had just voted to pass a law making pot legal. Some state official was on the news and asked by the anchor to comment, and he said something like, "the last time I checked, Denver was in Colorado, and pot is still illegal in Colorado."

[pwherr]

Yea they still have no clue where the legal line is. They just opened the store here where I live what 6 months after and it is still sketchy. They made them jump through hoops.

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Watch the movie Super High Me.

Good, funny.

It's not this way now, but Cali went through some crazy stuff for a few years after they legalized it for medical use. Feds raiding stores and seizing everything, then operators having to foot the bill to replace their computers and product, but being allowed to open back up right away. It was dumb. Went round and round like that for a few years.

Colorado probably going to have some "growing" pains, too. (Ha! My second bad pun of he day! Cha-ching!)

[seano1]

that guy was the biggest idiot ever caught on tape!

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Originally Posted by seano1

that guy was the biggest idiot ever caught on tape!

No doubt.

"I want to be invisible" conflicts with his need to be on TV whenever he can.

He can probably expect a little blowback from every other grower making big money. Anybody doing basic math knows he doesn't make almost $1.5 million on 13 customers a year.

[seano1]

if you have $400,000 worth of anything in your basement

-weed
-cash
-gold bars
-sports cards
-anything!!!

shut the f@&k up!!!!!

stupid ass clown went on the news. LOL!!!

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For real.

I guess he couldn't resist showing off his sweeeet beard on state-wide TV.

I like that they specifically mention that he has no cameras or security. Attention, the 3 million people in and around Denver: if you see this guy out somewhere, follow him home.