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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

To the dumb ass that thinks Florida is too humid to grow pot. You should do a little research before you call people out. The best sativas in the world come from the most tropical climates. Hawaii, Brazil, Colombia, Thailand, etc. All of those place are more humid than here in Miami. Plenty of people do grow outdoors in FL. The main reason people grow indoors is so no one sees your illegal crop growing in your back yard. Go to more rural parts and that is how most people still do it.

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

This bust sucked!! It really hurts me when i see a grow op get busted...Especially when its here In Miami... FOr the Police Officer: get a life....,, and also for the person who asked why dont we grow outside here in Florida... mmmm MAybe because its so damn humid down here!!!! Think before you post something and look stupi in front of everybody thats reading......

Psychowolff

Sep 4 2008, 3:06 pm

Don’t give the “policeman’ any attention, he (or she) is just pulling your ‘twig’ so he can play with your ‘berries’. Daddy maybe didn’t love him enough or something.

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

someone told, some asshole just could'nt let someone grow some. shame on you and yours!

casey

Aug 29 2008, 11:44 am

The only plant you can harvest 4 times a year is the coca plant and it doen't(and cant) grow in the US.

612treesmoker

Aug 29 2008, 2:30 am

0_o

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

actually a hydroponic set-up is almost the best way to grow weed. the roots don't touch any dirt, i believe, and they are constantly being thrushed with fresh water. the water is always moving. it looks pretty cool once it's set-up. It makes them grow way faster too. ;D

HU210

Aug 27 2008, 6:41 am

Finally, a Mall-Mart of weed!

dan tha veteran

Aug 26 2008, 6:39 pm

"Amazing, increadable" "Hydroponic lab"

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

i live right byy there and was wondering why there were so many cops there that day

HU210

Aug 26 2008, 6:54 am

@police officer
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

lol...oh shit...sorry man...i was in a daze for like a day...lol...here ya go...be easy though....you see what it did to me...hehe

PyroPerc420

Aug 26 2008, 2:27 am

Hey greengoblin you forgot to pass that shit! Puff puff pass!

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

wow, this is just like an episode of weeds!

anonymous

Aug 25 2008, 6:58 pm

That is the greatest thing ever! The only thing better would have been if it was in a police station! Cant we just make it legal already? Or at least embrace the fact that hemp may possibly be the greatest agricultural crop of ALL time!

huh?

Aug 25 2008, 5:09 pm

Maybe the wanna be cop is from EU or England. They don't use Zs over there, ANYWHO... Did the video say that it was hydro? I thought I just saw 3-4 gallon buckets? Oh well, fucking news will never get it right with the cops lying to them over and over and over...

greengoblin

Aug 25 2008, 3:58 am

lol ive heard it all...now a big ass mall up and running with a grow op...thats cool...but im starting to get sick of this gotdamn DEA showing up all over the damn place...FDA DEA FDA DEA....both agencies need to be stuck in one of those SAW movie scenes and well..you know what happens after that...then reestablish with some decency and actual interest in our people rather than the government or themselves....i could live with em if they would just make some damn sense with all this force feeding into the system of the actual drugs that have been man made and experimented with ...and all this unnecessary "kick in your door" type ordeals shit cuz of a damn plant....buttttttttttt thatll never happen...lol ...
'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

True Patriot is 100% correct, the main reason why law enforcement seeks to not only perpetuate but intensify the war on drugs is for one reason, their own self-interest.

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

This story made me grin. Considering the crappy-ass day I had, that's saying something.
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

The last time I checked a canabis plant was an annual plant meaning that IT GROWS IN A VEGATATIVE STATE, THEN IT FLOWERS, weather it be male or female. If male pollen does reach a female plant then it will form a seed. At the end of the plant cycle if a seed formed then the cycle would then repeat. I'VE NEVER HEARD OF A PLANT HARVISTING FOUR TIMES A YEAR. You can have a set up where you harvest four times a year but no canabis plant that I have ever run acrossed can you harvest from four times in one year.

anonymous

Aug 25 2008, 12:06 am

damn i live a block away from that mall...

707Stoner

Aug 24 2008, 11:15 pm

why dont people grow outdoors in floridia?..... oh wait ITS TOO FUCKIN HUMID anybody with a lil bit of cannabis knowledge know this. Dont be a jackass Know what your talkin about before you go off ranting!

gstlab3

Aug 24 2008, 10:46 pm

Hello fellow space trippN cowboys N girls!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THE MALL OF AMERICA QUOTE BUST IS WHAT HAPPENS IF YOU DON'T PAY THE RIGHT PEOPLE TO KEEP IT QUIET. OBVIOSLY AN INSIDE JOB OF BOTH THE GROW AND THE WHOLE GETTING "BUSTED" THING COMON!!!!! HOW THE FUCK CAN YOU GET ALL THAT CRAPP UP AND OPERATIONAL WITHOUT KEY PEOPLE KNOWING EXACTLY WHAT IS GOING DOWN. ANOTHER THING PEOPLE IN FLORIDA DO YOU EVEN NEED TO CONSIDER INDOOR GROWS IN THE EXCUSE ME HERE THE SUNSHINE STATE?!!! GO GREEN GO WITH THE SUN YOU MORONS>LOOSERS>PIGS>GOVERNMENT LACKEYS AND SYCOPHANTS! TO SCARED IS WHAT AMERICANS HAVE BECOME!!! QUESTION YOUR LAWS,AND THE ANSWERS THEY GIVE YOU AS TRUTH!!!!

jeremy!

Aug 24 2008, 7:44 pm

so chips are beaing planted in our brains? particularly the chinese? word? i love weed and all but maybe weed should be illegal....

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

Police officer: We are not trying to win a war against drugs... YOU ARE.

By the way-- it's realize.

Al

Aug 24 2008, 7:23 pm

I've seen "police officer" post here several times. I don't think it's a cop, it's some kid trying to push buttons to see how many responses it can get, and it works everytime. Ignore these posts.

ArmySoldier666

Aug 24 2008, 5:51 pm

Its sad that they can have enough intel to bust the growhouse but not anyone associated with it. THE HEADS WILL ALWAYS BEAT THE FEDS. LEGALIZE IT ALREADY AND GO BUST A RAPIST,MURDER,CHILD MOLESTER,DRUNK DRIVER, OR ANY OTHER CRIMINAL THAT ACTUALLY HAS A VICTIM.

anonymous

Aug 24 2008, 4:45 pm

you are an idiot

jvoodoo

Aug 24 2008, 4:05 pm

It's narrow minded people like you who are the reason weed is still illegal!

pig farmer

Aug 24 2008, 3:26 pm

There s officers that smoke dope,presidents that smoke bud,senator who skitz on meth. And this officer thinks the odds are in his favor. Dingalingalag THIS IS UR WAKE UP CALL .

707Stoner

Aug 24 2008, 3:12 pm

Its sad that we have douchbags in law enforcement like this officer, Its that kind of mindset that turns the public against the police. It is nice though to know that there is a good majority of law enforcement that do have common decensy and sense to not give a flying fuck about weed. Ive been stopped plenty of times with weed and they wont take it and dont care as long as I wasnt smokin while drivin or walkin around a public place like downtown or somethin smokin a blunt. But for the douche bags out there... i hope someone pops your head wide open cause you more than deserve it!

Zinh

Aug 24 2008, 2:52 pm

sad little cop when you get old and realise you wasted 100% of your life just know that group group of hippies you spent your time trying to get rid of will probably be the ones there to pick your ass up

meg

Aug 24 2008, 2:30 pm

also this cop is dumb. realise? actually it's realize douchebag.

rational thinker

Aug 24 2008, 2:19 pm

This is for the cop, It sounds like you are a typical narrow-minded cop, who probably drinks alcohol, which causes all kinds of societal problems every day, when not ONE case of overdose, domestic violence etc. has ever been attributed to pot. Hypocrite mindless asshole. So why are you on High Times anyway cop? Your small mind is what is sad.

True Patriot

Aug 24 2008, 2:12 pm

It amazes me how ignorant our law enforcement officers really are. A "War on Drugs" against our own citizens has been a loser since it's inception and a way to bleed our tax dollars to create bigger federal government taking power away from the individual states and the citizens that vote in the laws. Unconstitutional, Un-American war on drugs will eventually be won by the people. Especially since this is a war on the American Farmer and just another way U help keep us dependent on foreign oil, piggie. Consider this: of the one-and-a-half billion cannabis plants found and destroyed by U.S. drug agents between 1993 and 1997, only fourteen million were marijuana. That's 0.9 percent. That means that 99.1 percent were low-THC hemp. Legalizing hemp would translate to laying off 99.1 percent of all agents of the War on Marijuana, 99.1 percent fewer guns, helicopters, automobiles, flack jackets, etc. That's a lot of money in government contracts.

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.
Learn more here: http://www.sdearthtimes.com/et0199/et0199s11.html
Peace
True Patriot

bull

Aug 24 2008, 2:03 pm

they said which would have grown millions... Last time i check indoor can't be continually cultivated successfully idiot hype

HT Admin

Aug 24 2008, 2:02 pm

The fact that the gov't can't even keep drugs our of prisons is the single biggest indication that the war on drugs is a failure.

umm

Aug 24 2008, 1:53 pm

Well put rl!

rl

Aug 24 2008, 1:41 pm

"You dumb hippies are too dumb to realise you cannot win this war against drugs" he says as he drinks his jim beam and beats his wife

SNOman420

Aug 24 2008, 1:35 pm

screw u pig. distribute the love grass and be happy

eeyore

Aug 24 2008, 1:29 pm

Sad that a Police Officer would think the War against America can be won. 30 years I've been getting high never busted, my grower never busted. To quote a popular movie "the more you tighten your grip the more will slip through your fingers"

PoliceOfficer

Aug 24 2008, 1:15 pm

You dumb hippies are too dumb to realise you cannot win this war against drugs. Which is sad.

HT Admin

Aug 24 2008, 1:06 pm


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