Police: Entire NYC building was pot farm

[RainDog]

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/02/01/police-entire-nyc-building-was-pot-farm/

A five-story building in New York City was raided by police this week, revealing that the entire structure was being used as a multi-tiered marijuana farm.

Police said that four of the floors appeared to be designated to individual stages of the plants’ growth, with the most mature on the top floor.

...Officers recovered almost 600 marijuana plants, along with 75 pounds of buds that had been prepared for sale. In total, some 1,550 pounds of illegal plants were pulled out of the building

http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/Bronx-Marijuana-Farm-Morris-Park-Avenue-138431314.html

A search warrant was executed at about 1 p.m. Tuesday at 610 Morris Park Ave., according to police. Investigators seized 593 plants, some as tall as seven feet, as well as 75 pounds of marijuana that had been cut, dried and packaged in plastic.

Investigators said about 50 to 60 pounds of marijuana were being produced each month for a value of about $250,000.

[ZombieHorde]

1. Since NYC has no murder, rape, kidnappings, missing persons, break ins, or muggings,

going after pot is a good use of their resources.

[RainDog]

3. LOL

well, at least the cops won't have to buy any in the near future.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. What a waste!

Just consider the money that could be made if we were taxing this stuff after we legalized it.

Not to mention the human suffering that could be alleviated with the marijuana available for consumption.

It makes me crazy.

[RainDog]

5. amen to that! n/t

[hedgehog]

4. Urban farming!

[RainDog]

9. those were some successful urban homesteaders

LOL

[bluestateguy]

6. Big government tyranny

nt

[mike_c]

7. what a crime!

That pot could have improved many people's quality of life!

[RainDog]

8. gives new meaning to "Bronx cheer"

now done as "puff, puff, pass"

[csziggy]

10. Voila! Proof that city high rise farming is economically feasible!

High-Rise Farms: The Future of Food?
John Roach for National Geographic News
June 30, 2009

"In another 40 years, there'll be another three billion people. That's the problem," said Dickson Despommier, a professor of public health at Columbia University in New York. "We have to find another way to feed them."

One solution, Despommier believes, is to grow everything from salad greens to staple grains year-round in high-rise buildings at the hearts of urban centers.

This so-called vertical farming could put food within easy reach for billions of people while reducing carbon emissions from shipping crops across continents and oceans, he notes.

(See pictures of glass pyramids, towers of greenhouse pods, and other possible designs for vertical farms.)

"[The concept] is based on technologies already in use throughout the world, mainly high-tech greenhouses," Despommier said.

More: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/06/090630-farm-towers-locally-grown.html

[RainDog]

11. oh, thank you so much for posting that!

I had seen it here or somewhere before and thought of it immediately.

the shake and stems could be used to generate power, too, to run the bldg, as a biomass fuel. lol