Attempting to kill somebody will probably definintely attract a lot of attention from the cops.
Actually killing somebody…probably less so.
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I live in a conservative county, but read that it’s one of the top marijuana growers in the state. There’s some remote country fields that have large Keep Off - No Trespassers Allowed signs. I’ve wondered about that, but never tried driving up their road to find out what those signs are there for.
Those signs are there to discourage you from driving up their road to find out what those signs are there for. Sheesh.
The sort of unspoken context to a lot of this is that folks in rural wooded areas have been making their own weed/moonshine/crank/whatever for a very long time and have mostly just been ignored by the authorities so long as they were being discrete about it. In places like Northern California, it’s only become an issue because outsiders have moved in and are doing it on public land, not cleaning up after themselves, and are occasionally shooting at each other.
One of the articles I read mentioned that one of the local sheriff’s department down there used a very loose interpretation of California’s medical marijuana law to essentially “license” plants that were being grown by landowners on their own land so they didn’t get caught in the grow op sweeps. That seemed to me like all but admitting “well, it’s okay if we grow weed here…”
In the UK, Steven Hyde was growing cannabis within a residential house in Manchester, North England when two men broke in to steal his crop. Hyde reacted by blasting away with a shotgun missing the thieves although damaging cars parked in the street outside.
That was 2012. The UK legal process took it’s time but by April 2015 Hyde was jailed for 8 years on firearms offences. That was a light sentence reflecting the fact he didn’t hit his targets. The story doesn’t say whether he was charged with any drug offences:
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