Genetic loophole.

[samuraigecko]

Hello

I will not state where i am from, so do not ask. One will outline an experience SWIM had while growing hydro Mary Jane indoor .

SWIM was an indoor grower of our old friend MJ for quite a number of years. He worked and Hybridized many strains and interacted with people from various seed producing companies. SWIM wishes not to blow his own whistle but this included famous strains like Crystal Way, Alaskan Thunder Fuck, and for the people who know it, the infamous Dark Indica.

SWIM has since left all of that behind him for legal reasons. When arrested once he did get off on a rather large set of charges which included: commercial cultivating, commercial trafficking, possession of trafficable quantity etc etc etc, it was a long list of charges lets put it that way. SWIM had at the time, in total, 890 clones of Dark Indica growing in a house. Power was not being "jumped" but paid in full to the power company because the country in which SWIM lives, the power company doesnt have to tell the Police ANYTHING unless they have a court order, which takes time and money and resources. The power companies here do not care as long as you are a paying customer. The reason SWIM got caught is because of another person, which is quite usually the case, hence the saying "3 people can keep a secret if 2 of them are dead".

SWIM's defense in court was that it was NOT 890 plants but ONE plant. As they were all clones they were legally all genetically identical. Police have been using genetics and DNA in their "law" for many years in various countries as everyone already knows. SWIM's lawyer presented that:

"if SWIM were to be charged with having 890 separate plants then all other cases using genetic and DNA evidence would be null and void. Across the country many prisoners would have to be released because they were found guilty on genetic and DNA evidence alone."

Was the basic idea of what he was putting forth to the courts in SWIM's defense. This ended up turning out very well for SWIM and he ended up with only 2 charges "possession of a trafficable quantity" and "Cultivation of a trafficable quantity". This was come to by an agreement with the prosecutor and my lawyer. SWIM did his time for it, which ended up being 12 months and was out after 8. SWIM's other charges were dropped because of the bargain and also because it was hard to prove if SWIM "intended" the cultivation to be "commercial". The by-laws have since been changed in the country I live in because of this case and a few more that were similar with a similar defense and a plant is now legally considered to be "any plant material which has its own independent root system".

Cutting a long story short to come to the point of this post SWIM would like all to know about the genetically identical defense in case anyone is in a similar position in a country where this by-law has not been imposed.

SWIM also got off with a fine another time because of his countries definition of "hydroponic". In swims country the letter of the law is also based on our root dictionaries definitions. SWIM was charged with "hydroponic cultivation" which is also illegal here, even more so than if organically grown. Basically they come down harder on people who grow indoor rather than outdoor. His defense was the definition found in this root dictionary, the definition is thus "A plant grown in the ABSENCE of soil". SWIM always used coconut fiber as his substrate and therefor was not growing his plant in the absence of soil because coconut fiber is a readily available soil product and is "organic" and not "inert". SWIM avoided possible jail time and got off with a fine and unfortunately for our government and police the definition of hydroponic remains the same in the said dictionary.

If any of this is applicable in ones own country then one hopes it has been of great help to them. cheers.

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Thanks for sharing your experience. I have a few friends who might like to hear it as well, will share.