Marijuana Grow House Found In Mall Of The Americas
Sun, Aug 24, 2008 12:56 pm
Source: cbs4.com
Agents found more than 200 marijuana plants inside a building at the Mall of the Americas in west Miami-Dade late Friday. Now they want to know who was cultivating them, and who set up the hydroponics lab that could have lit the mall on fire with flimsy wiring.
The Drug Enforcement Administration discovered the plants growing on the second floor of the mall in what agents said was a 400-square-foot storage area. An official with the D.E.A. told CBS4'S Shomari Stone that she's never seen anything like this before.
The 'grow house" had plants growing from three-to-six-feet tall in an air conditioned environment along with camera surveillance in a storage area on the second floor of the mall. The wiring was flimsy, and could have sparked a fire in the popular mall.
Some estimates put the value of marijuana as much as $3,500 per pound on Miami streets. Overall, officials say millions of dollars of pot was found, since each plant could be harvested four times a year.
Agents will not share how the drug house was found, only saying that the investigation is ongoing. Officials seized the drug plants as evidence. No arrests have been made. According to D.E.A. agents, officials at the Mall of the Americas are working with the agency.











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Hialeah
Mar 25 2009, 5:12 am
The "russian scrub weed" someone mentioned is C. Ruderalis. For the most part it is crap, but their a few really nice strains ruderalis hybrids. The awesome thing about them is that you don't need the 12 hours of dark to get them to flower. They can grow with almost no light at all sometimes too. I'm pretty sure the Alaskan strains are ruderalis too. Manatuska Thunderfuck is definitely not a scrub weeed.
Mono
Sep 11 2008, 8:24 pm
Psychowolff
Sep 4 2008, 3:06 pm
TruePatriot
I agree with you on many points and the link you included does have some very good information. You’re wrong on a few things though. Marijuana IS hemp, and Hemp IS Marijuana, they are both slang terms for Cannabis. There are three genus species of Cannabis. C. Sativa, C. Indica, and a Russian/Mongolian scrub plant that I cannot remember off the top of my head but you would need to smoke a pound of it to get high, just like the ‘hemp’ variety!
Think of it this way, a horse is a horse! There are several breeds of them and their blood lines (genetics) will make them either a good race horse or work horse. It’s the same with Dogs, Cats, Cows, and Cannabis; it has been bred over the past Eons for their ability to produce lots of fibers, or THC production, or oil, or, or, or… there are simply TOO many beneficial elements of the plant and genes to cultivate to say any one plant is the all around ‘Best’. ‘Hemp’ is mainly from Sativa genes because it grows tall while the Indica is usually better for indoor growing because of its shorter bushy genetics.
On another thought, In most states Cannabis is the states ‘Highest income crop’, more than corn, wheat, rye, soybeans, Etc… and that is with people growing it illegally in a Mall supply room! Imagine what could be done with it in everyone’s back yard if it was Legal!!! Mmmmmmm… I’m salivating at the thought of it!
On still another thought, RE: your website link, The main reasons Cannabis was outlawed is to provide a few jobs and protect the profits for the wealthy, Hmmm… Anybody see a connection between 1940’s Hurst/DuPont/Mellon and 2008 Halliburton/ BlackWater/ Pharmaceuticals?? I might, but it is also a ‘little hazy’
piss-off
Aug 30 2008, 3:22 am
casey
Aug 29 2008, 11:44 am
612treesmoker
Aug 29 2008, 2:30 am
well well i hope there is a grow place in mall of america in MN cuz id break in and then roll some of the fattest blunts ever! i would put them right to the dome
anonymous
Aug 27 2008, 1:10 pm
HU210
Aug 27 2008, 6:41 am
dan tha veteran
Aug 26 2008, 6:39 pm
wat the fuck is a hydroponic lab? they tried to make it as shitty sounding as possible like a meth lab. sounds like some reefer madness shit to me.
ChikO BlaCKK
Aug 26 2008, 3:24 pm
HU210
Aug 26 2008, 6:54 am
There has not been a successful prohibition of "mood altering" substances for the last 400 years. From Egypt banning on coffee in the 16th century to todays modern war on drugs, all have been dismal failures.
So when is your side going to win the War od drugs and pot?
greengoblin
Aug 26 2008, 4:50 am
PyroPerc420
Aug 26 2008, 2:27 am
Fuckin DEA, Rochester MN is dry like a motherfucker! Let the stank flow through and keep the ditch weed in the ditch!
Someone come save us!
Puff Puff pass
LMN
Aug 25 2008, 7:04 pm
anonymous
Aug 25 2008, 6:58 pm
huh?
Aug 25 2008, 5:09 pm
greengoblin
Aug 25 2008, 3:58 am
'money' makes the world go round...so of course they get what they want and care less about us..i fuckin love america...*puff..puff...* .....*exhale....*
Mark Blunt
Aug 25 2008, 1:16 am
The more money spent on the war on drugs, the more money in law-enforcement's pocket and the more money for new toys they can use to ruin people lives while they laugh and joke about it to each other like the cowards they are.
Cowards that purposely kill peoples dogs and laugh about it.
There's no need for a war on drugs, there is a need for a war on coward cops who don't serve and protect but harass and neglect their duty, which is the majority.
Bob
Aug 25 2008, 12:53 am
In R.I. there was a group of kids that turned unused storage space into a home. They were there for almost six years, or so, before the mall operators had a clue that they were there.
Now somebody gets the enterprising spirit to start a grow-house! :)
My hat is off to them for having the wits and erm........stones to pull it off. The bummer is they got busted.
Best use of "wasted space" I could think of.
Hot Soup
Aug 25 2008, 12:26 am
anonymous
Aug 25 2008, 12:06 am
707Stoner
Aug 24 2008, 11:15 pm
gstlab3
Aug 24 2008, 10:46 pm
jeremy!
Aug 24 2008, 7:44 pm
but yea, that's crazy someone got away with all that reefer long enough to allow it get that big. i wonder how long their whole operation was going on for.
legalize and use the money saved from the "war on drugs" and the money earned from taxing to give us americans some free universal healthcare.
Bluesmoke
Aug 24 2008, 7:25 pm
By the way-- it's realize.
Al
Aug 24 2008, 7:23 pm
ArmySoldier666
Aug 24 2008, 5:51 pm
anonymous
Aug 24 2008, 4:45 pm
jvoodoo
Aug 24 2008, 4:05 pm
pig farmer
Aug 24 2008, 3:26 pm
707Stoner
Aug 24 2008, 3:12 pm
Zinh
Aug 24 2008, 2:52 pm
meg
Aug 24 2008, 2:30 pm
rational thinker
Aug 24 2008, 2:19 pm
True Patriot
Aug 24 2008, 2:12 pm
The DEA and Department of Justice's claim that the prohibition of domestic hemp cultivation should continue because of its relationship to marijuana is a farce. There are strains of industrial hemp that are entirely drug-free. Law enforcement's contention that high-THC cannabis could be hidden in a hemp field is also erroneous, as cross-pollination would ruin the marijuana.
Their claim that it's too difficult to tell the difference in the field is also a lie. Industrial hemp looks more like bamboo than marijuana, and the other 30 industrial nations that cultivate hemp legally have no problem identifying the types of cannabis in their fields. The fact that the Drug Enforcement Agency is prohibiting a drug-free plant is proof positive that the hemp issue is not about drugs. There is no drug in the plant.
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