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Here’s how they grow it in Ukiah. And don’t even THINK about getting sticky fingers, unless it’s yours and you’re rolling a joint.

​If you’ve ever considered doing something really stupid like ripping of someone’s pot crop, here’s a cautionary tale for you.

A 46-year-old Dublin, California man was hospitalized with a coma earlier this week after reportedly being beaten by the Ukiah residents whose marijuana plants he was allegedly trying to steal, the Ukiah Police Department reported on Thursday.

According to the UPD, the incident began shortly before 2 a.m. on September 23 when a resident called 911 to report that a group of people were burglarizing her home, and one of the suspects was being “detained in the back yard” by other residents, reports the Ukiah Daily Journal.
When police officers arrived on the scene, they saw the frightened Dublin man running desperately from the house and immediately detained him. The suspect had “serious facial injuries” and told officers he had come to the Ukiah area to “steal marijuana.”
He said he had gone to the home on Myron Place with “some local associates,” and they were in the back yard stealing marijuana plants when the residents surprised them.

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​Deputies rescued a Fontana, California man who earlier tried to rob marijuana farmers, but instead was shot at and became lost in the forest, according to San Bernardino County Sheriff’s officials. Oh, and they found 3,000 plants. Sound like a set-up?

Alan Drew Smith, 52, was arrested Monday for being a felon in possession of a firearm and for attempted robbery, reports the Victorville Daily Press.

Investigators learned Smith had gone into the forest area near Silverwood Lake north of Devore to try to rob marijuana farmers, officials said in a press release.

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Jorge Cervantes, master cannabis cultivator, is among the distinguished guests at the International Cannabis & Hemp Expo, San Francisco, Saturday, Sept. 25.

​World-renowned cannabis cultivation expert Jorge Cervantes is expected to speak during the 2010 International Cannabis & Hemp Expo, at 1:30 p.m. on Saturday, September 25. 
Cervantes will be taking a rare timeout from his most recent countryside video production to present an Expo exclusive, “Bud Porn: Getting Up Close & Personal With Your Buds.”
The Expo is held September 25 and 26 in San Francisco at The Cow Palace, and presenters said it aims to share a fresh new approach for cannabis education. 
“I’m honored to take part in this event that highlights cannabis as a global solution and the power we all have to help make that happen,” Cervantes said. “After eight years of self-imposed exile, it feels good to be in an America that is more free and to be able to legally grow medical cannabis.”

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​The Grand Haven City Council passed an ordinance this week allowing home-based medical marijuana caregivers to operate in the Michigan city.

The decision follows an initial moratorium issued back in February, reports Steve Patterson at WZZM. Registered caregivers now have the right to grow and distribute marijuana from their homes.
Caregivers who grow marijuana must work from home as licensed home businesses, according to the ordinance. They may not open storefront dispensaries like those in California and Colorado.
Also, caregivers can only operate from 7 a.m. until 8 p.m., with never more than two patients in the same home. The home businesses must be at least 1,000 feet away from the nearest school.

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​The producer of an instructional video about growing medical marijuana said the advertising and consulting firms it hired have conspired to copy, distribute and sell the DVD without its permission.

Grow Scene Productions filed a federal lawsuit, saying it enlisted Haze Consulting, Get Me Goings Productions, Robert Pyne Media and Sareli Marketing to promote its video, Mary N’ Jane Present the Successful Indoor Cultivation of Medical Marijuana, featuring the fictional characters “Mary” and “Jane,” reports Maria Dinzeo at Courthouse News.
The companies allegedly told Grow Scene that the video would not be finalized or reproduced without Grow Scene’s written approval, but on August 17, Grow Scene found Haze promoting the video at a Las Vegas marijuana trade show.
When confronted, Sammy Trujillo of Haze said he was in the process of printing 10,000 DVDs for distribution at Seattle Hempfest later that month, according to the complaint.
Trujillo allegedly got the video from Robert Pyne, of, not surprisingly, Robert Pyne Media, and a man named Marlo Jordon “was responsible for ordering and paying for” the 10,000 unauthorized DVDs, according to the complaint.

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​Selling cannabis seeds has long been legal in the United Kingdom, unlike the United States, and as a result the U.K. market for marijuana seeds has reached such maturity now that it merits its own price comparison website, according to the creators of a new site that, you guessed it, does exactly that.
Launched in August, Seedscanner offers an overview of the cannabis seed trade for a growing and increasingly discerning international market, according to marketing director Sophie Banks.

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Jesse Watkins said he “couldn’t stand the dog.” He also made the bonehead move of inviting the cops in with pot in plain view.

​A Portsmouth, Maine man who invited police into his home to investigate a noise complaint — but failed to hide his marijuana — was sentenced to jail on Tuesday.

Jesse Watkins, 27, appeared in Portsmouth District Court September 21 when he pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor count of marijuana possession. In a plea bargain, Watkins admitted to being in possession of marijuana, and a felony count of “manufacturing a controlled substance” was dismissed, reports Elizabeth Dinan at Seacoastonline.com.
Police were dispatched to Watkins’s home on September 8 for what was reported as a “loud domestic disturbance.” When a bloody Watkins invited officers in to prove he was alone, they found five growing marijuana plants and a bag of pot in plain view, Prosecutor Rena DiLando told the court.

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​A bizarre break-in to a California storage unit containing $35,000 worth of marijuana plants has the self-storage community puzzled, and engaging in what Inside Self Storage is calling a “spirited discussion” — well, that and a lawsuit.

Gary Hite, a tenant who grows medical marijuana, reported the theft of 35 cannabis plants, valued at $1,000 apiece, from his storage unit, reports Self Storage Investing.
Hite said the Hunco Way self-storage facility operator neglected to repair a broken door on an adjacent unit, from which determined, pot-hungry thieves tunneled through two layers of drywall to steal the plants.

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​Medical marijuana patients who choose to grow their own medicine want privacy — both to avoid rip-offs, and because many of them have no great trust of the police. But law enforcement agencies in New Mexico and other states with privacy provisions in their medical marijuana laws say they are worried that raids of legal pot grows drain their resources unnecessarily and could result in someone getting hurt.

Police in Boulder, Colorado complained last year about their state’s grower confidentiality provisions, saying officers spent considerable time investigating operations that turned out to have legal permission to cultivate marijuana. Providence, Rhode Island police secretly monitored a suspected dealer for weeks, only to find out he was allowed to have marijuana, too, reports Sue Major Holmes of The Associated Press.

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Lodi Police Detective Carlos Fuentes gets to try out his cool HazMat mask and brandish his weapon as he investigates an alleged “meth lab.” It turned out to the the deodorizer used to mask the scene of a legal medical marijuana grow.

​Police in Lodi, California thought they had a major drug bust on their hands after what looked like a couple of pounds of methamphetamine and dozens of marijuana plants were found at a commercial building.

Police even evacuated all of the businesses in the building between Pixley Parkway and Guild Avenue. 
But the big bust shrunk away to nothing when the “meth” turned out to be crystallized deodorizer and the pot plants turned out to be legal, reports Jordan Guinn at the Lodi News-Sentinel.
The operation turned out to be the medical marijuana growing site for a Stockton family, police said.
“After the search, we found they are in compliance with their legal marijuana cards, said Detective Hettie Schaeffer of the Lodi Police Department.
About 2 p.m. Tuesday, excited police arrived at the scene, ready with their fancy HazMat team to search the premises.
At first, the cops thought they’d stumbled upon two pounds of meth. But after closer inspection, the Lodi Police Department determined it to be a crystallized deodorizer used to mask the smell of the cannabis plants.
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