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

[zcarlson]

Well it looks like it's ok to shoot & kill someone stealing your plants, at least in California anyway: Man not Charged

So far anyway...they may come back and charge him yet still. Sorry about someone dying but this just shows how stealing someones plants can have serious repercussions.

I just read through this thread and there are some very good points made. I certainly would be very upset is someone stole my plants. But, that is a risk you take growing illegally and on public/some one elses land.
The issue that I have with what some people have written has to do with booby traps and inflicting bodily harm.... If you are growing weed to sell it, what makes you any different than the mexican cartels who grow to finance harder drugs and violencs? You are doing the same. If you are willing to actually harm another person over a plant you are the worlds biggest idiot with the worlds smallest pecker. If I ever found a grow with a booby trap I would destroy the grow and leave it for the growers to find. If I walked onto someones grow and they threatened me I would have no problem calling the cops and identifying the persons responsible. Hurting someone over weed is something a tweaker would do and belive me some posts have sounded like they were put here by tweakers.
If everyone here knows as much and has as much experience as they claim then hopefully you would be smart enough to put your plants where someone wont find them. IF YOUR PLANTS ARE TAKEN CONSIDER IT A LESSON LEARNED. Maybe you shouldnt put them in your backyard in plain sight of the neighbors and where there is no way the plant(s) cant be connected to you. Maybe you shouldnt grow them 40 feet off of a trail used by many people, if you are planting that close then how much work have you really put in?, you deserve to get ripped.
My point is this.
Stealing=bad
harming a person over weed = very stupid and desperate
Planting in a well traveled area = stupid
Maybe if your plants are taken all the blame should not be placed on the culprit but rather the grower for putting them somewhere so easily found.

[CaptainDankNuggets]

I would just leave them they way that I found them its someone elses work.

If you find reason that there abandoned and not being taking carw of, then by all means do what you got to do.

[GreenerGrocer]

Too true man!! I never thought about what I'd do if I came across a plant until now.

[Dieselbong]

Theft from an individual is wrong but as far as wal mart or any other large corp take it all they are the prime example of greed and everything that is going wrong in this economy.

[irieone]

Ethically it is never right to steal from anyone regardless if what they are doing is illegal. Recently a person i thought was a friend broke into my pad and stole my christmas crop, that i was banking on. I found where he was and he told me he did it because it was christmas and he needed the loot. Yeah who doesn't need the loot 4 any reason, i can think of milions. I didn't fight w/the guy because that would have done nothing the shit was gone. I couldn't get anything back what a shame. This guy who did this is obviously a scum-bag. He doesn't have shit and will never be shit. I'm not saying this just because he ripped me off but he has ripped off mutual friends for things and no one coud ever prove it. People give people the benefit of the doubt and i've seen it bite them in the ass more times than not. I caught the bastard the next day, the great case of the cannabis caper was solved and I got some closure for myself and my friends, I hope. My point is that this guy has a shitty life and always will. He will bring upon him more wrath then i could deliver to him, by continuing to be a scum-bag. I'm sure to this day that i will never see him again. It was a little cost to get rid of such a scum-bag but well worth it.

[Shirtntie]

It takes a lot of integrity to leave someone's growing crop alone. Let alone a field of it.. stay true to honesty and in return karma will be good to you..

[McLuvin]

If you happen upon an outdoor grow-op I would get the fuck out of there ASAP. You never know who is running it and what they may do to protect their crop and location. I.E. Killing your ass so you cant tell anyone.

[Nik]

to plant weed where it would be found hiking then it would deserve to be stolen. i would take it before the next stoner comes runnin along and snags it up, or even worse a fuck FDA or Cop finds it and kills it all together... in other words, yes, if someone were dumb enough to plant weed where people will find it then it is their own stupidity to blame.:rasta:

[demoreal]

I would leave them. Stealing is against my morals. Big time.

[stra8outtaWeed]

i'll pipe in here since being a former USFS empoyee in my younger days and being a supervisor of maintaining the Pacific Crest Trail in the Shasta-Trinity National Forests...1 when out i never had my uniform shirt on..always changed to some sort of t-shirt with heavy metal bands in it. 2. if i smelled it i noted the area and stayed the fuck away 3. never told a sould about it 4. never steal someones work..you never know what they will do to protect it. Even though you are in the great outdoors how would you feel if someone came barging into your home...you would protect it. My life is worth far more than what i cuold drag away...so jacking it never crossed my mind!:smokin: