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Has anyone else seen this? It's a grower in TN that built a very complex safehouse for their plants. I'm very impressed at how elaborate this was...I think they should gets points off of their jail time just because of their engineering skills...
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That's really...incredible. But if they had the money to build something that elaborate, couldn't they just as easily have set themselves up with a legal business that'd be just as profitable?
<-- knows almost nothing about large-scale drug operations, or drugs on any scale, for that matter
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I don't know, but if I had to guess, I'd bet the very high power drain this place must have put on the grid might be some indicator.
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I'd love to buy that place. Not for pot growing, but just for the secret underground lair. How incredibly cool would it be to own that?
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quote:But if they had the money to build something that elaborate, couldn't they just as easily have set themselves up with a legal business that'd be just as profitable?
Judging by the amount of pot in those pictures, there's literally no legal means to make that much money with that little of an investment.
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Human, are you a member of that forum? It looks pretty cool (busy too). Care to tell me a little bit about the people before I sign up (and apprently wait two weeks before posting)?
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I'm not a member of the board, so I can't really tell you what to expect. I was just so impressed that I felt the need to share...
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Isn't a cave, like, an ideal environment for farming mushrooms? And wouldn't that be fairly profitable and a lot more legal?
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I do believe that the Canadian government grows marijuana (for medical use) in climate-controlled caves. I'll see if I can find a link.
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Watch the video on the link I gave. They talked about power outages on the street, which is one of the things that tipped the police off.
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Kwea, it's not illegal, but if you use huge amounts of electricity in a residential setting power companies will turn you in to the authorities as suspicious.
Wow, that is quite a setup those guys had!
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They probably got caught by the electrical bill. Lots of times the heat signature will give away above ground grow ops, but with a cave I don't know how big a factor it would be. The weakest link is always the human one, though.
I agree with the mushroom option, although mine would be illegal. Mushrooms use much less electricity, and are at least as profitable on a small scale.
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My little brother was a grower. He had the entire second floor/attic of the house he lived in filled with plants. I would have a hard time guessing how many plants there were total when I walked in, but there were TONS of them.
He estimated that he had 65,000 dollars worth. From those pics, I'd guess those growers have ten to thirty times as many plants as he had.
So somewhere in the range of $650,000 to $2,000,000 dollars worth those guys had. And that's one crop.
If those guys grew (legal) mushrooms down there, they might make that much in their lifetimes. Maybe.
Drug dealing (and growing) isn't very smart but it certainly is profitable until you get caught (which, of course, my brother did).
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The man behind the whole thing was able to plead guilty to just a few of the charges, and will be sentenced to a maximum of 18 years in prison, about a third of which he'd probably serve.
850 plants with a yield of 100 pounds every two months. In other words, X, your brother was probably low on his estimate (edit: never mind, I see that that's per crop).
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