{"id":806,"date":"2012-10-08T07:22:01","date_gmt":"2012-10-08T07:22:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marijuana.net\/?p=20170"},"modified":"2012-10-08T07:22:01","modified_gmt":"2012-10-08T07:22:01","slug":"large-marijuana-grow-found-in-plain-sight-within-chicago-city-limits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/large-marijuana-grow-found-in-plain-sight-within-chicago-city-limits\/","title":{"rendered":"Large Marijuana Grow Found in Plain Sight Within Chicago City Limits\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 0 5px 5px;float:right;height:100px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/large-marijuana-grow-found-in-plain-sight-within-chicago-city-limits\/\" send=\"true\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div><p><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"259\" height=\"194\" src=\"http:\/\/www.marijuana.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/chicago1.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"chicago\" title=\"chicago\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-20171\" href=\"http:\/\/www.marijuana.net\/news-and-articles\/large-marijuana-grow-found-in-plain-sight-within-chicago-city-limits%e2%80%a6\/attachment\/chicago-2\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-20171\" title=\"chicago\" src=\"http:\/\/www.marijuana.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/chicago1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Marijuana grows are located by authorities with great frequency.\u00a0 A simple Google search using the key word \u201cmarijuana\u201d will almost always quickly produce many stories where authorities have discovered large scale grows.\u00a0 Even as this is occurring regularly, authorities still seemed to be baffled at how widespread marijuana is.\u00a0 While the reports seem to indicate some sort of victory by law enforcement, they are only revealing a drop in the bucket.\u00a0 For every illegal grow discovered there are countless that they will not find.\u00a0 This is to be expected as an outdated approach can only yield outdated results.<\/p>\n<p>The desperate need for cannabis regulation cannot be more clear after we learned of a developing story in America\u2019s third largest city, Chicago.\u00a0 Authorities found rows of marijuana plants, with many being 10 feet tall, lined in a space located just off the Bishop Ford Freeway.\u00a0 Edward Graney of the Cooke County Sheriff\u2019s Police Department noticed a patch of lime green while on a routine helicopter flight.\u00a0 He said \u201cI never thought I\u2019d see something like this.\u201d\u00a0 Barely believing the location and size of the operation Graney went on to say \u201cWhen I walked in there to get my head around this, I couldn\u2019t believe how big it was, I was in shock. Basically, someone put 1,500 plants in the middle of an industrial park.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As government officials still hope for a naturally growing plant to simply disappear off the face of the earth, their approach seems sillier by the day.\u00a0 The field off the Chicago highway was estimated to contain as much as $10 million of street valued marijuana.\u00a0 These illegal grows will never be taxed and often it is difficult to even ascertain who is behind the operation.\u00a0 The size and location of plants found shows that those growing are not exactly living in fear of authorities.\u00a0 If one of the world\u2019s largest metropolitan area is now considered a safe place to grow marijuana in the open, what hope does law enforcement have of uncovering grows deep in the woods of rural areas?<\/p>\n<p>Police and DEA officials are left without the ability to enforce marijuana policy.\u00a0 Of course it is not the fault of individual agents.\u00a0 Would we hand modern physicians tools from last century and demand cutting edge results?\u00a0 Regulation and legal economics offer the only plausible way to move forward.\u00a0 If marijuana were regulated within the United States, the need for a black market would quickly dissipate.\u00a0 Once the economics and demand are damaged, illegal drug trafficking simply will not offer lucrative rewards.\u00a0 Those new lucrative rewards could be redistributed toward tax payers or for repairing our crumbling bridges and infrastructure.\u00a0 That would also result in putting many of the currently 7.8% of our population who find themselves unemployed.\u00a0 For those serious about keeping marijuana away from children and restoring our economic prosperity should be shocked at the decades long failure that has produced an even larger and more dangerous unregulated marijuana market.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"259\" height=\"194\" src=\"http:\/\/www.marijuana.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/chicago1.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"chicago\" title=\"chicago\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-20171\" href=\"http:\/\/www.marijuana.net\/news-and-articles\/large-marijuana-grow-found-in-plain-sight-within-chicago-city-limits%e2%80%a6\/attachment\/chicago-2\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-20171\" title=\"chicago\" src=\"http:\/\/www.marijuana.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/chicago1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Marijuana grows are located by authorities with great frequency.\u00a0 A simple Google search using the key word \u201cmarijuana\u201d will almost always quickly produce many stories where authorities have discovered large scale grows.\u00a0 Even as this is occurring regularly, authorities still seemed to be baffled at how widespread marijuana is.\u00a0 While the reports seem to indicate some sort of victory by law enforcement, they are only revealing a drop in the bucket.\u00a0 For every illegal grow discovered there are countless that they will not find.\u00a0 This is to be expected as an outdated approach can only yield outdated results.<\/p>\n<p>The desperate need for cannabis regulation cannot be more clear after we learned of a developing story in America\u2019s third largest city, Chicago.\u00a0 Authorities found rows of marijuana plants, with many being 10 feet tall, lined in a space located just off the Bishop Ford Freeway.\u00a0 Edward Graney of the Cooke County Sheriff\u2019s Police Department noticed a patch of lime green while on a routine helicopter flight.\u00a0 He said \u201cI never thought I\u2019d see something like this.\u201d\u00a0 Barely believing the location and size of the operation Graney went on to say \u201cWhen I walked in there to get my head around this, I couldn\u2019t believe how big it was, I was in shock. Basically, someone put 1,500 plants in the middle of an industrial park.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As government officials still hope for a naturally growing plant to simply disappear off the face of the earth, their approach seems sillier by the day.\u00a0 The field off the Chicago highway was estimated to contain as much as $10 million of street valued marijuana.\u00a0 These illegal grows will never be taxed and often it is difficult to even ascertain who is behind the operation.\u00a0 The size and location of plants found shows that those growing are not exactly living in fear of authorities.\u00a0 If one of the world\u2019s largest metropolitan area is now considered a safe place to grow marijuana in the open, what hope does law enforcement have of uncovering grows deep in the woods of rural areas?<\/p>\n<p>Police and DEA officials are left without the ability to enforce marijuana policy.\u00a0 Of course it is not the fault of individual agents.\u00a0 Would we hand modern physicians tools from last century and demand cutting edge results?\u00a0 Regulation and legal economics offer the only plausible way to move forward.\u00a0 If marijuana were regulated within the United States, the need for a black market would quickly dissipate.\u00a0 Once the economics and demand are damaged, illegal drug trafficking simply will not offer lucrative rewards.\u00a0 Those new lucrative rewards could be redistributed toward tax payers or for repairing our crumbling bridges and infrastructure.\u00a0 That would also result in putting many of the currently 7.8% of our population who find themselves unemployed.\u00a0 For those serious about keeping marijuana away from children and restoring our economic prosperity should be shocked at the decades long failure that has produced an even larger and more dangerous unregulated marijuana market.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[636,52,637,638,98,639,56,9,51,70,421,1,3,61],"tags":[3209,2632,3210,3211,2676,3212,2636,2631,5,2999,6],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}