the main point is, if the plant is ready to harvest or not. if the time is come, i don't think it'd be too unfair to grab some buds. it is the share of the eyes.

also planting is something you may own, but the soil is ours after all.

by the way, there's noone who just stares at the plants and go away, unless he/she doesn't know the plant or lives in a field of cannabis and don't need no more