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Running indoor growhouse could bring stiffer penalties in Fla.
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- • DEA agents crack down on marijuana mansion in Miami: Officers fighting networks of indoor marijuana factories took out what they called a major pot-growing operation Wednesday in a secluded back room of a house where a nice older lady sold ice cream to kids. (April 30)
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Running an indoor grow house to cultivate marijuana would bring stiffer penalties under a bill now heading to the governor's desk.
The legislation would make it a third-degree felony punishable by up to five years in prison to own a house where marijuana is being cultivated, packaged and distributed.
Twenty-three suspected growhouses have been busted this year in Collier County. Eight were shutdown Wednesday.
The bill would also reduce the number of marijuana plants that would have to be in a home for a person to be convicted of a second-degree felony, which would be punishable by up to 15 years in prison. Right now, a person would have to have 300 plants in their home to be convicted of a second-degree felony, but the bill would reduce that number to 25.
In addition, if a child was living in the home, a person could spend up to 30 years in prison.
The Senate passed the bill (HB 173) unanimously Thursday. It passed the House last month.
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Why don't we try an stop them from getting into the country first, then we wouldn't have to pass any bill???
#1 Posted by techie on May 1, 2008 at 12:10 p.m. (Suggest removal)
So if I don't package it there, then it's ok?
#2 Posted by RXT on May 1, 2008 at 12:18 p.m. (Suggest removal)
GO FIGHT SOME OTHER CRIME!!! Marijuana should be the absolute least of your worries. Think about it...of all the drugs, and you target pot?!? You lawmakers must be smoking crack. There are two drugs less dangerous than pot and that's caffeine and nicotine. Give me a break.
Now if you'll excuse me I need to pack one up...
#3 Posted by CutthroatConservative on May 1, 2008 at 12:27 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Why do we pursue the war on drugs with an ignorant fanaticism? Almost 60% of the US inmate population are incarcerated for drugs. And the overcrowding US prison system is going to become a major factor in the next 5-10 years...
"U.S. prison population projected to soar by 200,000 in five years"
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/02/1...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisons_...
#4 Posted by Jadip811 on May 1, 2008 at 4:58 p.m. (Suggest removal)
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