17 Pot Plants Could Mean 35 Year Sentence


	17 Pot Plants Could Mean 35 Year Sentence

BartendingBear

11-1-2009 12:17 PM

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BartendingBear says:

This is just plain wrong.

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11-3-2009 3:19 AM

tazmanium

How insanely unfair. Cruel, heartless and extremely barbaric. We need to fix this!

11-3-2009 12:11 PM

Spiritualmonkey

It's a plant. How do you make a plant "illegal"?

This is the last gasp. After a couple of years of econopocalypse, there's not gonna be enough money around to wast cop time on people growing The Herb.

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