I really despise these assholes.
Police stake out hydroponics shops, harass customers who grow their own food Apparently Americans who employ hydroponics are the newest targets in an insane "drug war" that has gone from bad to ludicrous since it was first "declared" in the early 1980s.
Consider this case in point: A couple of years ago, narcotics officers knocked on the door at the home of a man who had just purchased a seed starter kit from a local gardening shop. The police officers were demanding to know just what it was he was planning to grow.
"Tomatoes," he told them, and the officers finally left - but only after they were convinced he was not growing marijuana.
Since that day the gardener, who asked the Kansas City Star not to identify him over fears he would once again be hassled by police, began parking a block away from that same garden center, in order to avoid police stakeouts.
The harassment of hydroponic gardeners has only gotten worse since them.
In fact, owners of garden centers are increasingly complaining that police surveillance and stakeouts are hurting their businesses - sometimes even driving smaller garden centers out of business. Few people, it seems, are comfortable shopping under the watchful eyes of the Police State.
A number of customers, the paper said, have reported being followed home by police after making their purchases, regardless of what they were growing
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