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A firefighter and a sanitation worker were indicted in Brooklyn yesterday on charges of operating a marijuana grow house in the basement of a Queens residence. Prosecutors accuse Woodside firefighter Matthew Cody and his sanitation worker brother Michael of using the Queens Village house to grow the hydroponic weed, and sources tell My Fox NY it was just one of several grow houses, which could each potentially bring in $2 million a year. Cody's partner in the scheme, fellow firefighter Patrick Murray, was arraigned last month on charges of manufacturing and possessing a controlled substance with the intent to distribute. The feds nabbed him outside the house after getting a tip that he was loading high-intensity discharge lights, often used for indoor plants, into a rented truck. The trio face a minimum of 5 years and a maximum of 80 years in prison if convicted because the house is less than a thousand feet from an elementary school. And it's unclear exactly what fate awaits all that primo grass, so let's just try not to think about it.
Alleged Pot Growing Firefighter, Sanitation Worker Indicted
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Knowing the cops around here, they'll probably sell that pot for their own profit while they throw the firefighter in jail.
Is it just me who's uncomfortable with the government telling us what we can grow on our own property? Or to put into our own bodies for that matter?
No, it's not just you & this is so damned ridiculous, make this crap legal already, in 1 house 2million a year, do you know what being able to tax that kind of revenue would do for our city, state, country???
All drugs should be made legal. It would be profitable for the government and it would put all the gangsta assholes out of business.
i'm with you. Its a plant. they'd make billions. isn't that what They want? Money? Beside- you'd cut down crime by God knows how much. or do they still need crime also?
Confused Yuppies
Yeah, I really want to start growing a plot of invasive species with loose monitoring and complete disregard as to any of its destructive effects on the natural vegetation in New York state.
I mean it's just a plant and I only notice/care about the effects on my property so yeah... get off my property government. I'm TOTALLY with you.
snitches!
Five years in prison for doing no one any harm. He should go kill someone; they'd give him a year at most.
its a f*cking plant. arrest god.
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this article gives a pretty good description of what happens to confiscated marijauana
Those bastards. Those were some real high quality buds.
It's pretty sad that someone can be arrested for growing a PLANT that has known medicinal purposes.
Two of NYC's bravest citizens are now gonna be taking up taxpayer money to be fed and clothed by the judicial system, all for growing a plant in their home, and never hurting anybody.
With the economic crisis and Obama's glib response to the most important question asked during yesterday's q + a, I think we've reached a tipping point here. It's time to get mad.
The biggest no-brainer in the entire world is to legalize pot.
what kind of absurd world are we living in where you can got to jail for growing a plant.
Of course, up until getting arrested these guys probably wouldn't have wanted pot to be legal. That would have wiped out their very profitable market.
"...one of several grow houses, which could each potentially bring in $2 million a year." Would no longer be the case if pot were completely legal. The growing would be doing done in large scale, probably run by tobacco companies and similar huge corporate operations. These guys, their distributors, and the guys selling the stuff all the way down to dime bags would all be out of business.
I think things are reaching the point where a real discussion about these asinine policies is becoming a possibility.
I almost broke my fingers reaching for that bud. Damn HD screens!
The thing is that big biz could try to grow it but its not like cigarettes in that a lot of people who smoke know whats good. They know about all the strains and hybrids. The tobacco companies dont so unless they hire some bad ass purple haze farmer, pot will still be a "mom and pop" business. I cant imagine that so many more people will be smoking if its legal that they wouldn't be able to handle it. They have done ok so far.
....Not that I would know anything about any purple haze.
This was a matter for the U.S.D.A., not the N.Y.P.D.