Charny boys busted over Macgregor grow house

Muttsybignuts said :

Forgive my ( pardon the pun) dopiness, but what did the helicopter do? Look for heat sources or something else?

The helicopter flew in the sky

Deckard said :

The government’s half way to banning cigarettes, they’re not going to legalise another cancer causing drug anytime soon.

Good luck to them. Forcing people to be healthy seems like a load of shite to me. To what end? So that we can sit around for a good 2 or 3 decades than we were ever meant to while our bodies and minds grow ever more decrepit. Shit, we keep hearing about the looming crisis of our ageing population, maybe we should stop trying to railroad people into growing old.

mostly said :

Cannabis smoking causes irreversible health issues like schizophrenia and paranoid delusions.

Oh really? Prove it. And when I say prove it, I mean you’re going to have to do better than anecdotes like “my friend blah blah blah” or the standard “just walk into any mental health lock-up and they’ll tell you blah blah blah” that seems to be the best anyone on here can come up with.

The closest to that I’ve heard is that while it does not cause schizophrenia, it may be a catalyst that brings on latent schizophrenia in people, but that is not the same thing at all.

Forgive my ( pardon the pun) dopiness, but what did the helicopter do? Look for heat sources or something else?

The government’s half way to banning cigarettes, they’re not going to legalise another cancer causing drug anytime soon.

The cost of getting a grow house Up and running and capable of a 300k crop would not be more than 30k. Lights and buckets full of grow wool are not expensive, fertilizer is the most expensive. And still not prohibitive.

And yes the helicopter run has caused many a bust.

mostly said :

Cannabis smoking causes irreversible health issues like schizophrenia and paranoid delusions.
We will be hearing about more drug busts this year, The cops know where all the druggies are located in Canberra from the helicopter we had flying over us a few months ago.

All the druggies or just the paranoid ones?

Spykler said :

Definately the bottom rungs of a very long ladder- hopefully AFP can squeeze the names of the bigger fish out of the lads.

Very little chance of that. The ACT justice system slaps wrists. The “bigger fish”, if any are involved, are more likely to slap faces – with a baseball bat.

mostly said :

Cannabis smoking causes irreversible health issues like schizophrenia and paranoid delusions.
We will be hearing about more drug busts this year, The cops know where all the druggies are located in Canberra from the helicopter we had flying over us a few months ago.

Source?

LSWCHP said :

Comic_and_Gamer_Nerd said :

Such a waste of taxpayers money.

At a macro level, I agree with you. Marijuana and most other drugs should be legalised, regulated, quality controlled and taxed. This would make them a lot safer. I also suspect that taking away the illegal/rebellious aspect of their use would make them a lot less attractive to young people. The crims would lose most of their funding. Property crime would decrease as users would no longer need to break into houses like mine to support their habits. All sorts of good things would happen and almost everybody would win.

In the meantime though, the law is what it is, which means that the sort of people running gigs like this are likely to be Very Unattractive neighbours. Potential OMCG members as PH suggests, or people of that ilk. I have young children, and I wouldn’t want this happening in the house next to me, so (with mixed feelings) I’m prepared to applaud the cops in this case.

And if they OD and die, good riddance. As long as they take out any innocents driving thru a red light ala Mulley.