What do I do if I find cannabis plants growing in the wild?

This question comes up every year about this time.

You might be out hiking and stumble across a single cannabis plant, or a whole bunch of them.

Your first reaction might be, "wow, that's a lot of pot, I can't wait to get it home and smoke it! That's enough for the whole winter!", or even "I bet I can sell that stuff and pay off my car loan!"

But please stop and think for a moment.

Someone has put those plants there, taken risks, and worked hard caring for them since June. They aren't just growing there by themselves and someone is going to be heartbroken that they're gone.

Think about the grower as another person.

Maybe they would like to have some smoke for the winter, but can't afford the prices that dealers charge.

Maybe they are growing a few plants to sell.

Maybe they are counting on that income to help buy food and fuel for the coming winter.

Remember too that one of the obstacles to the legalization of cannabis is the theft, violence, and general dishonesty that can spin off of it. When tokers can be ethical and all get along without stealing each others' stashes, and then having the snots beat out of them for it, the case becomes stronger that it is a relaxing and peaceful way to alter your perceptions.

So when you stumble on a plant in the woods, remember that as a toker, you are part of this community. Just leave it there for the person who grew it.

I am happy to see some one posting that.

You go get a firearm and stand guard over them until the rightful owner comes. Tell them what you've been doing and will continue doing, and they will reward your efforts. LOL

Peace.

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Originally Posted by stinkyattic

This question comes up every year about this time.

You might be out hiking and stumble across a single cannabis plant, or a whole bunch of them.

Your first reaction might be, "wow, that's a lot of pot, I can't wait to get it home and smoke it! That's enough for the whole winter!", or even "I bet I can sell that stuff and pay off my car loan!"

But please stop and think for a moment.

Someone has put those plants there, taken risks, and worked hard caring for them since June. They aren't just growing there by themselves and someone is going to be heartbroken that they're gone.

Think about the grower as another person.

Maybe they would like to have some smoke for the winter, but can't afford the prices that dealers charge.

Maybe they are growing a few plants to sell.

Maybe they are counting on that income to help buy food and fuel for the coming winter.

Remember too that one of the obstacles to the legalization of cannabis is the theft, violence, and general dishonesty that can spin off of it. When tokers can be ethical and all get along without stealing each others' stashes, and then having the snots beat out of them for it, the case becomes stronger that it is a relaxing and peaceful way to alter your perceptions.

So when you stumble on a plant in the woods, remember that as a toker, you are part of this community. Just leave it there for the person who grew it.

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Good post, would never dream of stealing another mans stash, that shit is dishonourable.

great post.....leave that shit alone!!!! it is either dirt weed growing natural or someones shit...not yours...i saw a covert grow op in west virgina once...those hillbilly's are smart..they will hang fish hooks at eye leval on thin fishing line...in the area.. put razzor blades in the stalks.. i even heard of people putting rattlesnakes tied on a string around plants... you don't want to end up dead....

well said stinky, well said
props to that!

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Originally Posted by Billionfold

What if they were planted by a dodgy person? I say take some, leave them half.

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That's not for you to judge.

I wouldn't go into someones backyard or house but out in the woods it's free game :)

it's people like blazed that gives kids a bad name...

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Originally Posted by AlwaysBlazed

I wouldn't go into someones backyard or house but out in the woods it's free game :)

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You're the kind of person who if they found a lost wallet would help themselves to anything in it before returning it to the owner.. if you even returned it.

Cool. Vigilante justice at work.

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Originally Posted by Billionfold

What you tend to forget is that it is not only peaceful hippies that grow marijuana. If I found a grow in the wild, I would probably keep my eye on it to see who ends up showing up. If the pot is going to bad uses, such as funding a gang or another shit scheme, then I will do my civic duty and relieve them of their crop. If it were just some hippy or yuppie growing for personal use, or even to sell for their own profit, I would leave it alone. I would be willing to take the time to find out that shit too.

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I have to agree with this because this is damn near exactly what i would do. It would be tough to pass it up, but if it were for some bro's personal use, id leave that shit be. for real

no I wouldn't get greedy
but a little don't hurt son

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Originally Posted by Billionfold

such as funding a gang or .....just some hippy or yuppie growing for personal use, or even to sell for their own profit, .

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See, I don't understand what criteria you are using to judge.

By yuppie, are you talking about some khaki-wearing white person who you personally identify with on a socioeconomic level?

Does stealing from someone who is a criminal any less of a theft?

Can you tell a criminal just by looking at them?

Is a yuppie growing to sell different from a disadvantaged urban person growing to sell?

Is it morally right to steal from Wal-Mart because they treat their employees like shit, or is it still theft?

^speak your wisdom son

just imagine if u put in all that work and someone took it.. thats like taking a someones baby...

It happend to me this year, I had 30 from the start went down to 15, day of harvest 0. It fucking sucks. They left us the smallest, shiestyist plant there. the year before that my brothers plant was stolen right from out backyard, year before that same deal. This year im goin indoors, im from a shiesty dog eat dog city. One day im going to throw a brick thru that kids window, karma's a bitch.

I had half of my outdoor grow stolen a few years ago and although I was pissed, I also was grateful that they left half for me. My avatar pic is from that grow.

i have a constant worry that someone is gonna find and steal my plant

...a small proportion of whats there...if the flowers are ready. (I think). Try not to take it all. I was trying to plant some stuff this year deliberatly for people to find! Just the odd plant near car parks and stuff (country). On plant was right by a (ok a very little used woodland car park)...still there at harvest. Other stuff happens that I don't really wanna take about - but try and keep a sense of homour in your response if the landowner on where your weed is growing finds and destroys it.

grow your own and leave what aint yours well alone,my plants r like members of my own family,im sure alot of people feel the same way about there grow,treet other peoples plants,how u would want someone to treet yours. i c nothing,i no nothing, i speak nothing!!

i would atleast leave a lil note that said..."hey nice plants" haha

god that would scare the shit outta me if i went out 2 my grow and there was a lil note like that

I'd never mess with someone's outdoor grow, with one exception: if I found an outdoor grow on MY property, that would put me at risk, and I'd probably take it if it was close to harvest, or just kill 'em off. That happened to my brother once, he found some plants growing on his land, close enough to harvest. He got a pound or a pound and a half out of it and felt no guilt. Guerilla grows are cool, but if you're gonna do it, use public land, not someone else's private property.

I remember when I was like 9 years old me and a friend found a weed plant growing like 40 feet away from this trail by his cottage, and even at that age we knew what it was. We basically went up to it and stole a leaf each and thought we were total badasses. But other then that we left it alone and went back to his place.

If it happened again today I really don't know what I'd do... =/

i remember not last summer but the summer before, i was rambling through the forest next to a powerstation by my house, and as i came out of the bushes there was some guy just knelt down watering and pruning about fifteen plants, i waited in the shadows for a few minutes before confronting him, i just walked up and stood next to him, i went to say hello, and he just flipped out and dropped everything and stood up, he looked SO sketched out, so i was like, 'dont worry man, my lips are sealed, nice plants tho,' he just started smiling and actually offered me a plant to keep quiet, i didnt know the first thing about growing then, and thought it was really hard to grow weed, so i passed up the offer, from then on i tried to discourage my friends from going near the plants (obviously without telling them) and never went back myself, i actually saw the guy driving his car the other week, im not sure if he recognized me, but i reckon if i reminded him one day he'd be like 'hey your that kid!' and i'd be like 'yeh.... ...im that kid' and it would be a great moment lol anyway, if the same thing happened nowadays, id probably ask if i could put a few of my own plants in, i wouldnt want to take them... that is a cruel thing to do indeed....

Hey all.... now that the harvest is pretty much in, did anyone lose a crop this year to ripoffs?

I am not saying I would take anyone's plant because I would never do that but if you plant things on public or open property that is just plain a chance you take. I certainly wouldn't plant things where other people have access to them and wouldn't be surprised if someone else who discovered them made off with them either. All I hear from September thru October is helicopters flying around keeping their eyes open...it's part of the ballgame.

PS Coming onto someone's PROPERTY? Now you're just a slimeball.

PSS For Punk: is that how you got the major in your name? Snagging those fan leaves? You are a badass!

i could have sworn that i posted on here.anyway GREAT thread

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Originally Posted by Weedhound

if you plant things on public or open property that is just plain a chance you take. ...it's part of the ballgame.

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I know, it sucks, but just because you expect to deal with scumbags doesn't make them any less scummy! :D

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Originally Posted by Weedhound

All I hear from September thru October is helicopters flying around keeping their eyes open

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OMG I live close enough to a major hospital to be on the life-flite path... choppers going by ALL the friggin' time...freaks me out even though I know 99% of the choppers are just medivacs...

Well you certainly make a good point--scum is scum no matter what. I'm just saying I wouldn't be shocked if some scum happened by my grow. We have medivac choppers too and just to make you more paranoid what if the medivac were carrying an injured DEA man or something? Double trouble!!

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Originally Posted by Weedhound

.....just to make you more paranoid what if the medivac were carrying an injured DEA man or something? Double trouble!!

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OOOOH I hate you! Now I'm going to have to wrap my whole house in anti-detection foil, lol!!!
:D

this year my crop was not found- I have had plants stolen- several years back my brother and I had over 30 plants that we cared for the entire growing season- the day we went to cut we noticed some footprints in the mud- not ours - all but one plant was missing- we found the culprit- he was selling the weed to friends - the ripoff artist ending up being a close friend of my brothers- unfortuantely my brother had been bragging about our bumper crop and the thief actually followed my brother for several days until he was led to field-

Take a cutting - grow your own.

That's as far as I would ever go.

Don't screw with other peoples stuff.

stinky your definitely right on this issue, just think if the shoe was on the other foot, if it was your crop that was getting ripped because you look like some dumbass hill billy redneck, sure wouldn't feel good. These people risked their freedom to grow that crop and your just going to rob them of it. Bad karma will certainly come to you, be sure of that.

i lost an entire crop about 4 years ago... medicine for a well know dry winter. if i ever catch that son of a bitch.....

DON'T steal plants. it's bad. i said so. god said so. stinky said so.

and goddamn, if stinky says "don't take them" and you do, wellllll, let's just say it'd be like karma times a million and a half!!!!



ok, wow, this is some reeely good stuff... as has been said... as fellow smokers, leave it be... chances are you'll get to try it soon enough anyway (most of it goes into local circulation)

great thread miss attic:thumbsup: (i'll give you a good rep if i can figure out how...)

love, kp:p

i hit the rep thingy 4 times, and it didn't do anything...

sorry:(

stealing plants is bad... last year, i had two come up missing, the 4 more, then a week b4 harvest, the other 9 dissapeared.

i hate thieves:(

anyone who steals a plant what isnt even ready for harvest is a 'See You Next Tuesday'!

Never take another man's stash. The only time it is ok is when it is on YOUR property but even then taking the whole crop is wrong maybe a plant or two is ok, call it rental fee of the space. That would be the only time i would pull from someone elses grow. Even then i'd probably go out and water it and if they came along strike up a deal to help care in return for a couple plants as a rental fee. if it's public property or in some one else's back yard hell no leave it alone. That's just rude crude and very unacceptable. I haven't had any outside plants stolen I'll be pissed and start watching even closer and end up using anti ripoff technology.
Just remember how would you feel if you stash came up short or missing?

you know if its on your property you can pretty much do whatever you want but think that most would probably remove them, probably well before flowering even started if spotted soon enough, and its probably not worth the risk to any property owner that probably has their own outdooor or indoor grow going on.