Invasion Of The Marijuana Growers

[Molalla1]

My property is a mile west of the county road. Therefore - I have a mile long driveway. Just across the county road, from my driveway, is a twenty acre parcel.

I wasn't so concerned that these knotheads were setting up a MJ growing facility. Not until I witnessed the calibre of clients that came to this facility. Seems that half of them didn't know right from left and came down my driveway.

Then that GLORIOUS night. I was awakened by the sounds of sirens. Something had gone wrong and the entire mess burned to the ground. Nobody seemed hurt but all that remained - ashes. Thankfully - it never was reestablished.

Maybe they tried spraying something volatile/flammable - ??

Maybe . . .

 

[Dftodd]

My property is a mile west of the county road. Therefore - I have a mile long driveway. Just across the county road, from my driveway, is a twenty acre parcel.

I wasn't so concerned that these knotheads were setting up a MJ growing facility. Not until I witnessed the calibre of clients that came to this facility. Seems that half of them didn't know right from left and came down my driveway.

Then that GLORIOUS night. I was awakened by the sounds of sirens. Something had gone wrong and the entire mess burned to the ground. Nobody seemed hurt but all that remained - ashes. Thankfully - it never was reestablished.

Maybe they tried spraying something volatile/flammable - ??

Usually the growers aren't allowed to be the sellers as well. The weed goes to dispensaries to be parceled out to the public.

 

[Steppenwolfe]

But where does it stop? My neighbor to the south is about 60 acres and on the east is another 88 acres. I do play the lottery.

I hear you... It's amazing how much land one needs to stay private and secure. Here in the Blue Ridge we are lucky to have a lot of ups and downs, hollars and ridges; it does help. The problem I see you having is a zoning issue; but if you are like me, AG zoning lets in everything.

 

[5030]

Sure it's not commercial hemp instead?

 

[CADplans]

My sister was growing cotton in the 1980's, the neighbor sprayed some 2-4D,, it drifted,, over 100 yards before it got to the crop.
There was not even a legal action, the guy that sprayed paid for the lost crop,,

There may have been insurance involved, I never heard that much detail.

That was FORTY years ago,, in Virginia,,

 

[masseyrider]

It's legalized in Canuckistan now but it used to be a good earner for me years ago.
I live along a waterway that has the city on the west side and we are rural on the east side.
Our side of the waterway has trees and brush so the city folks would sneak over and put in pot plants.
I've never grown or used it myself but somehow my dog was attracted to it.
When we'd go for a walk he would spot all the plants.
I'd cut them out and leave them initially.
Until someone told me he'd split whatever he got for it from some "people" he knew.
From then on it was something of a cash cow.
You just had to be lucky to time cutting before the actual growers did.
Also most of my garden tools, hoes, rakes, shovels, watering cans come from that time. People would hide them in the brush.
"Spark it up man"

 

[JasperFrank]

What happened in our area was that the POT Farm hired a bunch of tenders to be on site. So our little easement road became something else. They had 14 employees, each driving up the hill, then down the hill of lunch, then back up the hill, and then back down the hill to go home.

 

[etpm]

It's too bad the growers that moved into OK are such bad neighbors. But just because somebody is growing pot doesn't automatically make them bad people. It is truly unfortunate that the propaganda about marijuana has caused it to be illegal for so long. Especially since getting high is only a small part of the benefits of cannabis. It is true that cannabis grown for fiber is lousy for getting high. And pretty much the opposite is true because cannabis grown for getting stoned is not grown in a way that fiber extraction is economical. But both uses are legitimate. And the economic potential for fiber is great. Just like when alcohol was illegal in our country all sorts of very bad people get involved. And still, because we treat distilled spirits differently in our country and tax it to extremes, it also attract criminals. Though I don't know any marijuana growers I did meet some moonshiners back in the late 70s. I wished then that I hadn't met them. Purely by chance I met 'shiners who threatened my life. They were deadly serious about preventing me hiking on state forest lands. I had no idea I would run into people like that. I found out later that I had "trespassed" into a forbidden area in the low Sierra. I was just hiking. But the area to be avoided was an open secret where I lived and I just wasn't in on the secret. I never went even close to that area again. I had a family. It just wasn't worth it to challenge the assholes who didn't want anyone around. I was offered moonshine though several times. To drink and to buy. I never bought any.
Eric

 

[MohanKabeer]

Hey there, I just stumbled upon this thread and found it really interesting. While I do agree that the behavior of some cannabis growers can be problematic, I don't think it's fair to generalize and label all of them as bad neighbors.

 

[CobyRupert]

Hey there, I just stumbled upon this thread and found it really interesting. While I do agree that the behavior of some cannabis growers can be problematic, I don't think it's fair to generalize and label all of them as bad neighbors.

Right. You’re just going to get individual perspectives and antidotes here. 999 cases of “nothing happened” won’t get retold. But the 1 in a 1000 will.
...or is it 1/100 or 1/10,000…see, I have no real data either.

 

[MAX-24-Dean]

Don't grow pot were DDT was used, you might get you shut down.

Washington shutters pot businesses due to old pesticide

Cannabis regulators have halted operations at several outdoor pot farms and processing facilities on a stretch of former fruit orchards in north-central Washington state

abcnews.go.com

 

[rgr33]

In this area, we had a “secret” pot growing business, that everybody knew about. About half the neighbors were outraged, and half didn’t care much.

also, a 60 acre hemp growth about a mile down the road from the pot facility.

The pot grower failed financialy, turned to cut flowers, the hemp grower apparently didn’t think it was worth the hassle.

Both gone now, probably for financial reasons.

 

[ConawayFarms]

Interesting how many of these grows just come and go, lots of people jump in thinking it’s easy money, but between regulations, local pushback, and actual farming challenges, most can’t make it work long term.

That’s why if someone’s looking into cannabis from the medical side, it makes way more sense to go the legal, clinical route. In the UK, for example, there are specialist clinics set up just for that. Here’s their integro review page if anyone’s curious how it works.

 

[5030]

Just read an article in the local rag talking about the drop in commercial weed prices here in Michigan and how most of the weed retailers won't survive. They got into it thinking they would make a killing but now are getting killed themselves. Once you have a proliferation of wee dealers and they compete against each other causing the price to plummet, they won't all survive and that is playing out here presently.

 

[Dftodd]

Coworker told me about an odd occurance when he used to live down the road from where I live now.

He walked out of his house one morning and noticed 3 deer munching away next to his house.

What was odd was they didn't take off when he exited his home.

This got him wondering, so he approached one of them and got within 5ft of it, and yelled.

The deer ran a few steps and stopped

So he called his buddy who was a game warden to come over thinking they had CWD.

Game warden approached them the same way he did. Going much further and swatting one of them on the butt.

The deer ran about 20ft and stopped. So he shot all three thinking they had CWD.

He hauled them off and had them tested.

He called my coworker a couple days later.

He told my coworker there had to be a large Marijuana grow operation somewhere near him.

The deer tested off the charts for THC The poor things were stoned out of their minds and had the munchies

 

[RjCorazza]

In my jurisdiction homeowners can grow a reasonable number of plants for personal use. It can't be too difficult on a small homeowner scale, as quite a few of my lawn customers have flourishing plants. That's gotta take a bite out of the commercial growers (and the government!).

 

[zzvyb6]

Drone technology to the fescue, mess-cue, and rescue !

 

[tacticalturnip]

There are many commercial grows here in Maine, but they're huge, indoor operations. Only private growers have their plants outdoors, and that's still only a portion.

 

[Dan Hunter]

Elect a better sheriff. A few years back, the Major county sheriff went after every grower with raids to verify absolute accountability of product and money. It's the same thing ATF was doing to gun dealers; any errors and you're done. It's my understanding no one survived. It's like going after Capone on a tax beef; who cares why or how - they're gone.

 

[ericm979]

Interesting how many of these grows just come and go, lots of people jump in thinking it’s easy money, but between regulations, local pushback, and actual farming challenges, most can’t make it work long term.

In Oregon and California when it was legalized a lot of people bought land and started grow operations. I think a lot of them lacked marijuana experience or even farming experience.

With the increase in supply prices dropped. In Oregon avg bud went from $10/g retail in 2019 to $3.50/g in 2024. I see stores advertising $40/oz, which is cheap stuff.

There's been a lot of pieces of property for sale the last few years that had grow operations on them. Usually it's obvious because they don't bother to clean up. Even if they do, which is rare, satellite photos from a year or two back will show it.

That’s why if someone’s looking into cannabis from the medical side, it makes way more sense to go the legal, clinical route. In the UK, for example, there are specialist clinics set up just for that.

Until recently marijuana was schedule 1. If a researcher wanted to test it, they had to buy from the government's official source which is a farm in the south somewhere. It's not representative of what's being sold these days.

I don't think it's particularly dangerous but I would like to see more testing done of the effects on various ailments.