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Invisibleplaywithguns
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legal grow destoryed by le and hazmat..what are my options?
    #14199901 - 03/28/11 08:06 PM (12 years, 11 months ago)

Long story short.... I had the beginnings of a 100% legal grow of shiitake and oyster going with a friend. He is going through a divorce, and the ex decided to alert the authorities stating we were growing "shrooms" in his garage.
So that day the local drug task force and a hazmat team raided the place and basically ruined every culture I own..shiitake, blue oyster, reishi, and black poplar. Of course the investigation is pending, ie samples sent to the lab to test for psilocybin, and we will check out 100% Scott free. Thing is, this was the beginning of an entrepreneurial venture into organic mushroom farming and now I have nothing left of my investment..so what are my options? This is utterly ridiculous! Law abiding citizens being harassed and ravaged by le!
This is completely blown out of proportion and is risking my good name in the community, plus all the money I used to acquire these culture from Europe and abroad! I am a victim and don't know what to do...just waiting for le to show up and question me...  do I defend myself or just state that their questions are better answered by my  lawyer or what? I cannot afford a real lawyer...what should I do?


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Re: legal grow destoryed by le and hazmat..what are my options? *DELETED* [Re: playwithguns]
    #14200561 - 03/28/11 09:33 PM (12 years, 11 months ago)

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Re: legal grow destoryed by le and hazmat..what are my options? [Re: JonnyS]
    #14200794 - 03/28/11 10:13 PM (12 years, 11 months ago)

sue the lady that narced? If she knew they where all legal but set you up anyway maybe she is liable. If you can't afford a real lawyer you may not be SOL as a real lawyer may pick up the case and take a cut of the proceeds. People have sued for legal med grows being destroyed and received full compensation for finished goods that would have been harvested. If you can find out what your yields would have been plus cost of everything destroyed make a good list and contact lawyers.


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Invisibleplaywithguns
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Re: legal grow destoryed by le and hazmat..what are my options? [Re: argg]
    #14200905 - 03/28/11 10:35 PM (12 years, 11 months ago)

Sorry, but I Will worry about MY cultures. Because they were MY LEGAL Cultures and I should not be harassed just because le doesn't understand the growth cycle of a mushroom. My cultures would have yielded hundreds of pounds of organic edibles which would have potentially been worth thousands, and now I have nothing. We had a prior complaint from a neighbor of "dumping" something in the yard at night, which was just our straw pasturization water...that complaint, combined with the x-wifes statement must have been enough for a warrant.


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Re: legal grow destoryed by le and hazmat..what are my options? [Re: playwithguns]
    #14200935 - 03/28/11 10:40 PM (12 years, 11 months ago)

If it was business and you have a plan with sales projections go contact several lawyers. Chances are if you go for a large chunk they might settle out of court getting you some dough but a lawyer will know if you have a case.


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Re: legal grow destoryed by le and hazmat..what are my options? [Re: playwithguns]
    #14202521 - 03/29/11 07:04 AM (12 years, 11 months ago)

Thats garbage man. Did you guys buy the cultures or did you do some isolation yourself?

Im working on this too. Im a dick though so nobody does shit like this to me, they know im all too willing to shoot the knee caps of fuck faces.


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Good now thats clear.WHO FUCKING CARES. If I am fat u all keep pointing it out like its suppose to be a secret.LIke u really have nothing better to do then make fat jokes. If o know its like I do I know yall can come up with NEW AND BETTER SHIT . This shit is old and boring . I left in the first place cause this shit got boring not because of the fat jokes . Fat jokes dont bother me but seriously its old[/quote]

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Re: legal grow destoryed by le and hazmat..what are my options? [Re: Psychoslut]
    #14202774 - 03/29/11 09:12 AM (12 years, 11 months ago)

You have an extremely solid case, and a good lawyer will see that and represent you despite your ability to "immediately" pay, seeing that the payment will come from a ( extremely likely) positive outcome of your case.  At least speak to a few, so you can see what grounds you can sue who and what for, so on so forth. It's worth your time.

Good luck, I'm sorry to hear this happened to you. Your ex WILL regret this when you get some money out of her for putting you in this situation out of anger. Circumstantially it seems she may be the one you and your lawyer decide to sue. Her ability to defend herself will rely on the legitimacy of her claim that she did or did not believe the mushrooms you were growing were pscilocybin.

Speak to a lawyer! There's lots of options here and we all know you'll be acquitted of the charges... After that, its all cha-ching for you!

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Re: legal grow destoryed by le and hazmat..what are my options? [Re: LateForTheFuture]
    #14207866 - 03/30/11 05:05 AM (12 years, 10 months ago)

if it's not to late, whip out your cameras and document everything as they left it.


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Re: legal grow destoryed by le and hazmat..what are my options? [Re: playwithguns] * 1
    #14207891 - 03/30/11 05:26 AM (12 years, 10 months ago)

Sue the dogshit out of everyone one involved and file civil rights violation against the pigs as well. Be ruthless and show no mercy - the cops damn sure wouldn't if you had been growing illegal shrooms.

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Invisibleplaywithguns
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Re: legal grow destoryed by le and hazmat..what are my options? [Re: Le_Canard]
    #14209502 - 03/30/11 01:09 PM (12 years, 10 months ago)

Just an update for ya'll. So all in all, we had the local drug task force, police, an ambulance, 3 fire trucks, and a DEA agent visit our grow at my friends house that night. Luckily my friends father was present and helped them realize that this was not a meth lab, nor an illegal mushroom grow. So they did not go too crazy tearing the place apart...they left the liquid culture and grain jars and bags, which I am very thankful for. However, they did confiscate all of my master culture syringes and agar, which included Shiitake, 2 different shiitake 75, blue oyster, reishi, and black poplar.
The reishi and one of the shiitake 75 were still in a sealed parcel with my name on it. I'm wondering if their original warrant gives them the right to open my mail (warrant was carried out at a friends residence) and more than likely destroy the cultures to test them...
So the whole crew was over for about an hour, several (including the Dea guy) were pretty upset that all of their resources were used for nothing...and rightly so!
Now just waiting to see what we can do about recovering what was taken...
One interesting thing was I guess the crime scene tech was very impressed by our setup and was quite surprised that a couple guys who aren't scientists could have a setup like that!


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Re: legal grow destoryed by le and hazmat..what are my options? [Re: playwithguns]
    #14210232 - 03/30/11 03:48 PM (12 years, 10 months ago)

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I'm wondering if their original warrant gives them the right to open my mail (warrant was carried out at a friends residence) and more than likely destroy the cultures to test them...





Yes it does. 


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Re: legal grow destoryed by le and hazmat..what are my options? [Re: Alan Rockefeller]
    #14210807 - 03/30/11 05:29 PM (12 years, 10 months ago)

i think it was 67 or 57, i don't know i could google it, but Owsley, bear, w/e, was making LSD before LSD was illegal and the cops thought he was making methamphetamine so they raided his place, took supplies, equipment, all that


when they determined he was making LSD, they dropped the charges, he successfully sued for the return of his equipment


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Re: legal grow destoryed by le and hazmat..what are my options? [Re: fallenlsd]
    #14216602 - 03/31/11 07:04 PM (12 years, 10 months ago)

Please keep us updated with the results of this case.

I have a legal grow going on and I am hoping that if something like this were to happen that there exists precedent for the victimized party being compensated.


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Re: legal grow destoryed by le and hazmat..what are my options? [Re: Humility]
    #14217589 - 03/31/11 09:54 PM (12 years, 10 months ago)

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Humility said:
I have a legal grow going on and I am hoping that if something like this were to happen that there exists precedent for the victimized party being compensated.





Generally not.

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Re: legal grow destoryed by le and hazmat..what are my options? [Re: Alan Rockefeller]
    #14217706 - 03/31/11 10:16 PM (12 years, 10 months ago)

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Alan Rockefeller said:
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Humility said:
I have a legal grow going on and I am hoping that if something like this were to happen that there exists precedent for the victimized party being compensated.





Generally not.




legal medical marijuana growers have started to get compensated. With LE over valuing of grows in the past some growers have received 5k per plant they destroyed. If the shrooms have medical value I wonder if that would help in court?

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Re: legal grow destoryed by le and hazmat..what are my options? [Re: playwithguns]
    #14259825 - 04/08/11 05:32 PM (12 years, 10 months ago)

There is both state and federal charges for falsely reporting a crime, (if she knew about it)

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Re: legal grow destoryed by le and hazmat..what are my options? [Re: tater]
    #14268235 - 04/10/11 05:59 PM (12 years, 10 months ago)

sue the ex, she sounds like a nasty person. And hey at least your body is rid of her!

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Re: legal grow destoryed by le and hazmat..what are my options? [Re: plustax]
    #14298698 - 04/15/11 11:32 PM (12 years, 10 months ago)

update?

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Re: legal grow destoryed by le and hazmat..what are my options? *DELETED* *DELETED* [Re: shLong]
    #14439561 - 05/12/11 10:48 AM (12 years, 9 months ago)

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Re: legal grow destoryed by le and hazmat..what are my options? [Re: Anonymous #2]
    #14445488 - 05/13/11 01:18 PM (12 years, 9 months ago)

yeah, I'm kinda wondering how this played out too. Especially since I'm thinking of growing legal mushrooms, but won't have anything illegal.


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