Question about outdoor growing (state legal via medical), and possible federal issues?

Discussion in 'Security' started by TotallyToked, Nov 21, 2015.

  1. Hi Blades,


    I can't grow indoors, and am looking into whether I might grow outdoors (vs buy from dispensaries).
    I am in the process of getting my medical card. (If I don't get it this is moot, would not risk growing without one.)


    I am curious about a few things:
    1) Might the feds come after me? I've been reading various things saying feds have been backing off of medical marijuana, but most of them seem to apply to larger dispensary grows, etc.
    I would just be growing a few plants for personal use.
    There is no tree cover or anything over my backyard. I live in suburbs.



    2) How much smell? I have a pretty small back yard. its fully enclosed with fencing, but I am guessing it would be very noticeable to the very close neighbors (their house is like 10 feet from mine; you can't even park 2 cars between, there is a 1-car-wide driveway between my house & the next one)
    I imagine I wouldn't get in trouble locally (I mean, they might hassle me about it and/or call the cops, but I'd be legal for growing in the state).
    But my neighborhood isn't the best and I'd also worry about someone busting into my backyard to steal my plants...
     
  2. Unless your growing over 99 huge plants the feds are really not an issue just follow state and local laws.. Many cities and counties have enacted laws against both inside and outside growing like all of San Bernardino County.. So far Los Angeles County and my city remain grow friendly here in California..
    With a medical grow your actually protected under the law against rippers but you'll need to handle your own security like motion lights, driveway motion alarms and that type of stuff.. Mostly you just live and sleep under the plants the last month of flower if your neighborhood sucks..
    I try and not annoy my neighbors with real bad stinkers like skunk and diesel strains but even my Chernobyl stinks bad enough to be smelled from the street when I get out of the car in late flower.. So yes they can stink really bad..
    Had one of the neighbors call the cops on my grow early on.. They came and looked around and told her to mind her own Ps and Qs and left.. Didn't even look over my paperwork..
    BNW

     
  3. I'm in Massachusetts so it may be somewhat different...
    My backyard is fully enclosed and locks from the inside with a gate, so to get in they'd either have to jump the fence (its maybe 8 ft tall wood, though there is an abutting building on one side of it from a glassblower and I've seen little kids running around on the roof, so it has roof access, someone could just jump into my yard from there).


    After doing a bit more research I think I'll just purchase from dispensaries. Growing, at least right now, sounds like too much of a hassle.

     
  4. You might be able to set up a car port or two in your backyard, that'd Probably be your best option if you wanted to grow. You wouldn't have snoopy neighbours, and you could just do some small height strains. And trust me, a small outdoor soil grow wouldn't be that hard at all :)
     

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