outdoor growing question

[bigjoe420]

Hi all. New to the site. My doctor told me that when growing outdoors you have to have it in a greenhouse or under a canopy. Maybe I'm not reading the law detailed enough but I don't see this? can anyone elaborate. Thanks

[redtails]

You want it secure and so nobody can tell outright you have a pot farm going on in your yard, that's the reasoning I believe. I've seen many people posting pics of their legal grows who do not cover it, but you're running a risk if anyone can see it. Remember it's still federally illegal and very high value so you can still get busted by the feds or ripped off by a neighbor.

[dirtybuds]

dude is right its all for concealment purpose not anything to do with legal growing requirments. pretty much keep your plants camoflauged as to not draw an eye, recommend painting buckets, tarps on fence, barbed wire on inside of fence where not noticed from street, also good to grow a cover garden to abscure the smell also on lookers or bypassers.

[Nancy007]

You don't have to do anything if you don't want to, but there's a higher risk of getting busted if it's visible by any outsider.

Example; I had a sheriff knock on my door last week, because someone was involved in an off-road accident behind my property, about 150 yards away from my plants. Had the plants not been concealed and the sherriff saw them while he was doing his investigation, I'd totally be busted.

I turned this god awful pale color when I answered the door, but played it cool when I had to walk with him around the back where the accident happened. Thankfully my plants were not obvious...to him.

You don't want anyone to know what you have, so keep it hidden. You never know who's gonna knock on your door.:thumbsup:

[smileyface]

Hey, actually I just looked into this a few weeks ago. If you are growing in the city of San Diego, you ARE legally required to grow in a greenhouse if your grow is outdoors. The rest of the county as well as Orange county goes by state law and you don't have to have a greenhouse. I found that on the CA NORML website where they list the state and local laws

[Nancy007]

If you're sitting behind bars because you're plants were visible to any local law authority, there's still going to be repercussions, greenhouse or not. You're safer with a greenhouse but it's also more suspecting. Greenhouses around my area are always being watched closely.

Growing outdoors on your property is part of your home's "curtilage" if it's an area where someone would not normally walk up to, like a front door where there is implied consent to do so. Going out of the way to look for anything suspect would be an intrusion of your right to privacy, it's less accepted by society, and therefor harder to obtain a search warrant for.

[pepurr]

That's pretty cool Nancy, I learned a new word. Thanks! :thumbsup:


Curtilage Law & Legal Definition (http://definitions.uslegal.com/c/curtilage/)

Curtilage is the immediate, enclosed area surrounding a house or dwelling. The U.S. Supreme Court noted in United States v. Dunn, 480 U.S. 294 (1987), that curtilage is the area immediately surrounding a residence that "harbors the `intimate activity associated with the sanctity of a man's home and the privacies of life.'' Curtilage, like a house, is protected under the fourth amendment from "unreasonable searches and seizures.''
Determining the boundaries of curtilage is imprecise and subject to controversy. Four of the factors used to dtermine whether to classify the area as curtilage include:
1) The distance from the home to the place claimed to be curtilage (the closer the home is, the more likely to be curtilage);
2) Whether the area claimed to be curtilage is included within an enclosure surrounding the home;
3) The nature of use to which the area is put (if it is the site of domestic activities, it is more likely to be a part of the curtilage); and
4) The steps taken by the resident to protect the area from observation by people passing by (shielding from public view will favor finding the portion is curtilage).

[Nancy007]

Just learned it myself about 6 months ago. :) There is a book out there called Marijuana Law, by Richard Glen Boire. I highly recommend this book to anybody who has any immediate association with marijuana. It's everything you need to know about marijuana law and your rights.

[Reform Speaker]

Curtilage may be protected under the fourth amendment against unreasonable searches, but plain view trumps curtilage. If an officer can see your plants from where he has a legal right to be, like the street, this gives him probable cause for a search. Make sure nothing is in plain view....

[MEDEDCANNABIS]

i agree discretion, always discretion. we are still considered criminals...wow, imagine that.

funky mmj:stoned:meded