Press Release Summary: Marijuana grow houses are quite controversial in many parts of the US, and even in Austin, Texas. The legal issues dealing with grow operations are quite complex and often involve significant issues about people's right to privacy.
Press Release Body: While marijuana is considered to be an illegal substance and thus punishable by certain fines and imprisonment, there are other issues before these that go straight to the core of people's basic right to privacy.
Arrests for people growing Mary Jane for their own personal use and in grow houses are on the increase. What tends to happen is both federal agencies and state law enforcement personnel band together to eradicate growers. It's how they work together that has often been the subject of some serious controversy. Wannamaker & Associates, an Austin, Texas law firm with offices in Houston and Dallas, Texas is no stranger to such controversy either.
The increased interest in operations of this nature is largely due to the jump in potency of the end product. Just recently Mexican law enforcement officials discovered a new strain of marijuana with a higher potency and virtually impervious to chemical annihilation. The higher the buzz potential, the greater the value of the drug on the street.
Since a typical grow room yields 25 to 30 pounds of cannabis every 3 - 4 months, there's a lot of bucks to be made selling it, hence the desire by the law enforcement community to shut down this avenue of commerce.
Even though the penalties for growing, possessing and manufacturing quantities of weed are less severe than for more dangerous illegal drugs, the issues over how the cases are worked up and prosecuted raise basic human rights concerns. These basic human rights and their protection is what drives Wannamaker & Associates, an Austin, Texas law firm with offices in Houston and Dallas, Texas.
Possession of over 100 plants, usually prosecuted in federal court, most often receives a minimum mandatory sentence of five years. Possession of over 25 pounds clocks a three-year mandatory sentence. Having a competent and highly qualified attorney represent these cases is essential and may mitigate the length of time served.
Major issues in drug busts like this relate to weight of the marijuana, search warrants, consent to search and knowledge of the property owner. One other key issue revolves around violation of the Fourth Amendment, which deals with a person's reasonable expectations of privacy on his or her own property.
For instance in cases where the local police use drug sniffing dogs on someone's property without a search warrant, this violates the Fourth Amendment.
In addition, controversial methods for getting information about possible grow houses, such as searching the energy utilities data base for people whose energy consumption is considered too high, is perilously close to being an out of control crusade.
While it may be illegal to grow and traffic in marijuana, it is just as illegal to use questionable methods to obtain information to police the practice. No one knows this better than Wannamaker & Associates, an Austin, Texas law firm with offices in Houston and Dallas, Texas.
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