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No One's Home -- Except for the 159 Pot Plants 
Posted by FoM on May 14, 2000 at 08:40:11 PT
By Hannah Sampson
Source: Miami Herald
Police in Pembroke Pines knocked on the door of an apartment to serve a search warrant recently and were greeted by silence.That was because marijuana plants don't talk, and the plants -- 159 of them -- were the only things in the unit in the Marquesa apartment complex.
Property managers called police and said that the apartment at 215 SW 117th Ter. was ``occupied with cannabis plants throughout the residence,'' according to police reports.Police obtained a search warrant based on that information and searched the apartment about noon April 26. The residents: 159 plants, some of them four feet tall and three feet wide.Cultivating equipment -- lights and drying tools -- were also found in the apartment, police said.``It looked like it was inhabited mostly by pot,'' Pembroke Pines Police Sgt. Mike Arnett said.``One room was drying, one room was growing,'' he said.Investigators said they had not determined who set up the indoor pot farm.This crop was grown specifically to be extra-potent and valuable, Arnett said. Each plant could have yielded about a pound of pot.Indoor pot-growing has become increasingly common over the past decade, authorities said.A decade ago, agents raided eight indoor labs in Florida.Last year, that number reached 211, including 54 in Miami-Dade County and five in Broward County, according to state drug-enforcement officials.By Hannah SampsonE-Mail: hsampson herald.com Published Sunday, May 14, 2000Copyright 2000 Miami Herald CannabisNews Articles On Pot Growing:http://alltheweb.com/cgi-bin/search?type=all&query=cannabisnews+pot+growing
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Comment #1 posted by dave on May 16, 2000 at 07:00:47 PT:
interesting turn of phrase
odd how the authorities and the newspapers refer to the marijuana garden as a "lab". I've seen plenty of gardens of the plant but never a lab. another one of those media hook-words, I think. they say lab, people automatically think, methamphetamines. how could a bunsen burner and some test tubes possibly help a pot grower? 
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