Well, I wanted to recount this horror story to let you all know what to expect if you're ever raided. Thank GOD I was on vacation the week it happened and not home. Here's the story I got from my neighbors though.
At 5:16 am on a Tuesday morning, two SWAT teams simultaneously raided my house and my neighbor (3 doors down). They got both of us because my neighbor is an infamous cocaine smuggler from the '70s (he's right up there with George Jung, the character played by Johnny Depp in Blow). Anyway, I was raided because they saw me going in and out of his house and him coming in my house on numerous times.
Here's the routine: They broke down our front doors with a battering ram and threw a "sound grenade" into the living rooms. This lovely device is about 100 million times louder than the most obnoxious alarm clock. Remember this is at 5 am! Well, as luck would have it neither me nor my neighbor were home. But my poor sweet cat would have been sleeping up on the corner of my bed. So she must have been scared outta her wits. The cops never saw her, so I'm sure she hid like a motherfucker.
After the sound bomb, they rushed the house and went through EVERYTHING, I mean everything. My box of DILDOS was spread out on the bed! Thank fucking god I wasn't home for that fun. I would have told them where the weed was just to avoid the embarrassment.
Now, my neighbor was really who they were after because he's a big name in the drug business. I think they realized I was only a recreational user and in fact I've never done coke in my life, I only bought weed from this guy. They found in my house rolling papers, seeds in the trash and a little container of res. However, they didn't find my bag of weed, bukket bong, plastic bong, pipe, or HD lights in the basement for growing.
Apparently some of the officers were extremely allergic to my cat and couldn't do their job as well. And wouldn't ya know, my cat's window seat is less than a foot from where my stash and paraphenalia is kept. And to think I ALMOST vacuumed the house before I left for vacation!
They also didn't find anything in my neighbors house except a hand-crafted aluminum foil pipe that he smokes crack from. See, he'd been raided before and they confiscated a pipe and fined him. So now he makes homemade pipes but then doesn't destroy them!
I was VERY fortunate not to have gotten any charges against me since they only found circumstantial evidence. I think they tried to get into my computer too, but it's password protected. Good thing, because I have a PDF file on how to grow your own weed! It could have been worse though, because in my state any amount of weed is fined up to $1000 and a year in jail. So what did I do that night when I got home from vacation and finished cleaning up the door debris? I lit up a bowl of course
Take care, and be careful guys!