Hello,

I have a friend that is about to start growing marijuana, and is being as smart about this as possible. He is wanting to do it as a attorney would do it. he has been reading on interenet and have learned that many charges get dropped when growing marijuana if grow for medical purposes, is there some kind of license you apply for? Also my friend is wanting to grow enough to pay the bills meaning around 2,000 a month or so. Nothing on the level of Drug lord or anything, just enough to pay bills.

Secondly, how many plants will be considered a felony? a misdemeanor? Also how much weed must you have also in order to be considered a felong or misdemeanor?

Now, I have heard of several rumors on how someone gets caught growing marijuana, I have heard that you can get caught by DEA driving around with Heat detecting devices and if they see excessive heat in one specific area in your home they can they begin to watch. Another is by working with Xcel energy and in seeing who is using energy very excessively.

Now I dont know how true the above items are, frankly I think the only way to get caught is by being snitched out.

My friend is wanting to seek legal advice as well, he would like to meet with someone who can give the DO's and DONTs of marijuana growth. Again he is trying to do this the smartest way possible.

also one last thing, he does have a small child living at property, approx 2 years old, how does this effect him? Can child be taken from social services?


any advice would be greatly appreciated, too bad bush screwed up economy or else my friend would not need to grow weed to pay for bills.

thanks