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- rockforever, on 10/12/2007, -27/+242There is so much to be gained in this country by reforming Drug Laws. Its so sad that the religious right has enough power to push morality onto the public. Why can't I put a plant that grows naturally into my body? Oh, because it hurts the Pharmaceutical business.
- Rooster99, on 10/12/2007, -17/+161OH GOD NO!!! That was a sweet setup!!!
LEGALIZE!! - jobu00, on 10/12/2007, -13/+152The War On Drugs makes grow ops like that possible.
Without the WOD, growing weed would never make enough to finance that setup. - RealSurreal, on 10/12/2007, -11/+146these men should Celebrated not incarcerated
- desistere, on 10/12/2007, -2/+134Dude, think of all the rope you could make with that.
- Azap, on 10/12/2007, -8/+131I for one welcome our subterranean, tunnel living, pot growing, hydraulic escape rock creating overlords.
- ThinkBox, on 10/12/2007, -6/+111"Behind this vault door is Wonkaland for stoners."
Screw that, man, If Wonka ran that place, everything in there would be smokeable, down to the last nut and bolt of the vault that guarded the "cave".... oh and a Whataburger would be built into the house. - rockforever, on 10/12/2007, -19/+116@Seruphim
No, YOUR whats wrong with America. Why is it that what you say is what should be advocated to EVERYONE. You think weed is bad? Who the hell cares what you think. These people didn't do ANYTHING morally wrong. They provided a good at a price which the market deemed reasonable and they sold their good to people willing to buy. Thats how markets work. If you believe that people like this turned schools into ***** holes, AND if you think that ONLY public school students and community college students smoke weed, then you are completely delusional and out of touch with reality. The government only outlaws this because they don't get a cut of the profits.
Your an idiot. - punkrockxtian, on 10/12/2007, -6/+85I think that's the coolest thing I've ever seen.
- star00scream, on 10/12/2007, -10/+79Bond finally caught the infamous "Dr. Greenthumb"
- Artifez, on 10/12/2007, -12/+76I'm not following your logic. You're saying that marijuana growers are responsible for making high schools and community colleges into ***** holes? That's just weird.
- exodii, on 10/12/2007, -0/+59Hydraulic rock escape path!
Now that's something I only thought I'd see in a movie. Well done! - chubbstar, on 10/12/2007, -1/+59how the ***** did they get caught?!
- Hayaemsay, on 10/12/2007, -2/+53Dugg for being the coolest thing I have seen all week, despite the fact I'm niether anti or pro drugs (I don't care what people do to their bodies)...
- Eccles, on 10/12/2007, -10/+54@prisoner24601:
I took the SATs in seventh grade and got a 1050, and 1150 in eighth grade. I took calculus in ninth grade. I got a 1530 SAT, which equates to 1600 under the current scale. I got a 2390 on the GREs (out of 2400). My high school GPA was 3.5 because they included my multiple college course grades; otherwise it would have been a 3.8. My GPA at Duke was over 3.5, just missing Magna Cum Laude. I have two master's degrees. In late 2002, I posted on how the Republican control of Congress would have the negative consequence that the myth of the Republicans as the fiscally responsible ones would be shattered. In early 2003, I posted on how Hans Blix's inspections had shown that the Bush admin *didn't* have the solid evidence of WMDs they had claimed, and that they were going to invade soon anyway because otherwise it would be obvious they had fudged the evidence. I know your username is a reference to Jean Valjean in Les Miserables.
I advocate drug legalization on the current alcohol model. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -10/+51if legal weed isnt profitable... then why did Phillip Morris and other cigarette companies buy all the popular weed brand names out - in case of legalization.
California Kush, Purple Haze, etc - all "owned" brand names. - naldwell, on 10/12/2007, -2/+42And fibreglass panels for cars and boats! And oil for machinery!
- BobbyMC, on 07/21/2008, -3/+41I can't decide whether to be pumped that the single sweetest marijuana setup of all time was right next to me, or totally ***** enraged at the fact the police probably just killed 75% of the market in Tennessee.
Diggers, it's in the back of all our heads... The question is when we are actually gonna get around to overthrowing the government.
Probably when we don't have anymore weed. - zcreem, on 10/12/2007, -7/+44Neither is that comment.
- ajcates, on 01/20/2009, -3/+39no its not cool at all, its horrible news, they got caught
- HouseofEl, on 10/12/2007, -5/+40Get some sour cream and onion chips with some dip, man, some beef jerky, some peanut butter. Get some Häagen-Dazs ice cream bars, a whole lot, make sure chocolate, gotta have chocolate, man. Some popcorn, red popcorn, graham crackers, graham crackers with marshmallows, the little marshmallows and little chocolate bars and we can make s'mores, man. Also, celery, grape jelly, Cap'n Crunch with the little Crunch berries, pizzas. We need two big pizzas, man, everything on 'em, with water, whole lotta water, and Funyons!
- dhuck, on 10/12/2007, -3/+37@chubstar
power consumption, i'd bet. all those lights need a tremendous amount of energy, and i didn't see anything about generator farms or some other type of energy source. - seefresh, on 10/12/2007, -9/+41@prisoner24601 I graduated high school with a 3.5, I got a BS in computer science form UNC, I smoked pot all those years.
You either have the drive to do school or you don't. There is no reason to blame it on pot. - NoSuchThngAsGod, on 10/12/2007, -0/+32"To power the sophisticated lighting and climate control system that kept the caves temperature at 87 degrees the men had illegally spliced into county power lines."
- cruzlee, on 10/12/2007, -1/+31I live in Holland. We pay between 5-6 euro per gram.
But that price would drop even more if growing the stuff would be legal too.
Right now we have the strange situation that growing is illegal, and selling it is legal.
Every individual is allowed to grow 6 plants though. - timdorr, on 10/12/2007, -1/+28Yeah, I want that cave for my house by itself. The door on the vault is nuts!
- stevenmunro, on 10/12/2007, -2/+28stoned access only
- ajcates, on 01/20/2009, -2/+27if it were legal, a gram would cost about 50cents, and probably 1 dollar after taxes and stuff, the plant is really easy to grow, and you can grow lots of it with little work, and it grows just about anywhere
- BarriedaleNick, on 10/12/2007, -1/+24@Gustomucho
"1st : The buckets are too long and not wide enough, the plant take the form of the bucket..
Thats simply untrue. Genetics is the primary determinant of plant shape. The bucket they are in is pretty much irrelevant. If I grow using NFT do I get plants that resemble a flat mat? As long as the plant has space to spread it roots then it doesn't care what shape bucket they are in
"3rd : With all that equipment, you can see the crop will be bad, the plants aren't producing alot of buds. "
As we dont know how long they have been in flower then it's impossible to tell how they are doing. If thats week two of flowering then yay! If it's week ten then boo!
"4th: Looks like the whole thing is made out of clones, and I hate cloning."
Just about everyone who grows on that scale will use clones. It's the only way to go. You want a monoculture - it's much easier to control the right levels of food (esp in hydro), height of light etc etc if you just stick to clones. Plus you get a crop that's consistent (good or bad) - jobu00, on 10/12/2007, -2/+24Well to be fair, it would have been more dumb to actually claim income from selling maryJ, no?
- M4tt3r, on 10/12/2007, -1/+22@cawpin
How about some actual sources, instead of hear-say?
It's also been shown to promote brain cell growth. http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn8155 - simg, on 10/12/2007, -0/+19we don't need to overthrow the government, but we do need to overthrow the influence of people who think they have the right to tell us what we can and can't do when it doesn't affect anybody else.
the whole thing has become an awful self-justifying mistake. eg "drugs" are bad therefore people who take "drugs" are bad therefore they should all be in prison as soon as practical.
The idea that drugs are not bad is a concept that is completely incomprehensible to probably the majority of people. The idea that drugs (and especially marijuana) can be entirely positive, life enhancing experiences that have been enjoyed for thousands of years is probably counts as insane in their eyes.
It is this mindset that we need to overthrow.
Fine, if you want to believe a load of nonsense that's OK by me. BUT STOP putting decent people in prison and destroying societies because of your closed minded attitudes to life.
Think how long the people who owned the cave will be in prison for (forever ?). Simply for the non-crime of supplying open minded people with a very misunderstood form of enjoyment. - ZeroMP, on 10/12/2007, -0/+19"how the ***** did they get caught?"
"power consumption..."
I'm pretty sure the last time I saw this exact story with these exact pictures (6 months ago maybe? ..with more details) it was mentioned that they had cut into the county power lines and were getting all the electricity for free, unnoticed.
More likely they showed someone outside the operation and then they started blabbing off at the mouth or something. Flapping their molars and such like people will do.
Or someone in the operation got nicked and snitched like people will do. - M4tt3r, on 10/12/2007, -3/+22@cawpin
And as a matter of fact, I drive blazed all the time. I have never had a ticket, never been in a crash (that was my fault-- that I could of avoided even if).
Not that what I say will matter, but I'm actually less likely to have road-rage when I high, but more likely when I'm not. (Some one cutting me off... I just shed it off like dead skin). But this is me, I'm not saying everyone is the same. So generalizing is a weak argument.
People have different reactions to marijuana, some get paranoid, some get dizzy, some get relaxed, but most get hungry. :) - Comatose51, on 10/12/2007, -5/+23@rockforever: Yes but the demand would also go up and so will the money that they make, which can be reinvested in bigger production facilities, thus driving down the cost of production. Imagine 21st century farming technology applied to a hardy plant like weed. The law right now creates artificial scarcity. There's a monetary value to that because it costs more to grow them and then traffic them in secret. Furthermore, making it all hidden also means less transparency, thus much less efficient pricing in the market. It's not as though there's an exchange for something like weed right now. Legalizing it would allow something like that to happen. The demand for it definitely exists. After alcohol and tobacco, weed has got to be one of the most widely consume drugs.
- cardyology, on 10/12/2007, -3/+21Welcome to my crib MTV!
- silverchrysalis, on 10/12/2007, -10/+26oops wrong reply
digg down - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+17@macintoshxp:
Yeah, that's pretty much *****. I just ran a trademark search. "California Kush" has only a couple of clothing-related trademarks. "Purple Haze" is trademarked to all kinds of crap, but the one for smoking articles is held by a company called Royal Blunts in California.
kush1: http://tess2.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=7lumfg.2.2
kush2: http://tess2.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=7lumfg.2.1
haze: http://tess2.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=7lumfg.4.2 - InferiorWang, on 10/12/2007, -3/+17+1, eccles
Not everyone who smokes pot is a moron or a degenerate. Many of us are intelligent, well-adjusted, contributors to society. - DoubtfulSalmon, on 10/12/2007, -4/+17If that was 75% of the market in all of Tennessee, then you guys must have a hell of a tiny market situation there.
I looked at that setup expecting to see something big, but by Australian standards that's a small backyard operation - not quite personal use, but not far from it. A thousand plants wouldn't even make the newspaper here! - darny, on 10/12/2007, -2/+14@ jobu00
first of all, the war on drugs doesn't make that setup possible, it makes it necessary (so the growers don't get caught). Second of all, there are plenty of people out there who made enough money by selling produce to afford mass growing operations, offices and living spaces. Tobacco? Organic produce? HELLO??!? - spudlyo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13"He who made kittens put snakes in the grass." --Jethro Tull
Deadly Nightshade is Belladonna btw. - OGTL, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12People say stoners have no drive or motivation.
In reality, when you're stoned you notice a lot of things just aren't worth doing.
There's a difference! - dreadful, on 10/12/2007, -4/+16http://www.digg.com/tech_news/Elaborate,_high-tech_underground_pot-growing_site_uncovered
this is a year old - lnf69, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12@jobu00
If they laundered the profits, a must if you want to avoid being busted and continue business, the next proper criminal step would be to declare the laundered profits as income to the feds, and pay taxes on that income.
That's the proper protocol for staying in this type of business. That's why it's called "Organized Crime".
Of course, if pot were legal, they would have skipped the laundering part, and paid a bunch of sales taxes and other taxes.
Then the state would have made a lot of money and saved much much more money in the prosecution/arrest/investigation/incarceration of these guys.
But no, some people think it's better to supply the demand only through illegal means, which is at a very high cost to us. - Piontek, on 10/12/2007, -2/+13*****, i wanna be the real estate agent on that house...
- nicepants, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11They got caught because the cave was using the mains from the supposedly vacant home, which happened to cause that home's electricity usage to be so much higher that the electric company had to install new transformers in the area.
I read about this a year or two ago when this article was first out, and there was a lot more detail about how they were caught, etc. Can't remember where the article was originally posted, but it was the electricity that did them in. - bigchina, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11That makes the Batcave look like a sofa cushion fort
- headzoo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11Anyone know how they got busted?
- broeks, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10Towlie got them into the cave.
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