'We'll never be the same': A hydroponic tomato garden led police to raid Kansas family's home

[ABX]

The police report would claim it all kicked off at 7:38 a.m., but Bob Harte later thought it had to be earlier.

His 7:20 a.m. alarm had just yanked him awake. Got to get the kids — a boy in seventh grade, a girl in kindergarten — ready for school. Then he heard, like a starter's pistol setting everything into motion, the first pounding on the front door of his home in Leawood, Kansas, a bedroom suburb south of Kansas City. It was thunderous. It didn't stop. Should I get up? Bob thought. Should I not? Sounded like the house was coming down, he would recall later....

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/midwest/ct-hydroponic-tomato-garden-police-raid-20170729-story,amp.html

[Wingnut]

Looks like the appeals court ruled wisely in this case. 

[jpsb]

The War on Drugs is really a war on our constitutionally guaranteed civil rights. Along with the 86 amnesty one of Regans' worst mistakes.

[Free Vulcan]

Looks like the appeals court ruled wisely in this case.

Agree. While I support cops, I don't support stupid actions by cops, which this seems to be.

[240B]

The War on Drugs is really a war on our constitutionally guaranteed civil rights. Along with the 86 amnesty one of Regans' worst mistakes.

That is exactly what it is. That's why the Feds love their 'war on drugs'. It gives them virtually unlimited money and unlimited power. In the name of 'drugs' of course. And that always makes it OK.


'Drugs' are the Feds Emmanuel Goldstein. Drugs justify things they should never be able to get away with.

[anubias]

Well this article is certainly frightening.  I frequent hydroponic shops for ferts and equipment for my aquarium.  Now I wonder if I'm on a list for a no-knock raid next 4-20.   

[Sanguine]

Well this article is certainly frightening.  I frequent hydroponic shops for ferts and equipment for my aquarium.  Now I wonder if I'm on a list for a no-knock raid next 4-20.   

Yes, it is frightening.  I guess if we don't hear from you for a while.....?