Posted on Nov 28, 2007 - 0:00
Medical pot is sealed in Food Saver bags before sale to customers

Agents and police officers following up the heroin arrest of Benjamin Foster in Arcata last weekend found more than 100 pounds of marijuana and 400 live pot plants while serving search warrants.

The Humboldt County Drug Task Force said the first warrant was served at a home on the 2100 block of Frederick Avenue in Arcata and an indoor grow with 214 mature plants and 205 immature plants were found on Monday.

Firefighters were called to the scene due to hazardous wiring conditions at the grow and while they were there a ballast began to smoke and catch fire. It was immediately extinguished.

The task force said agents also found a scale, 100 grams of processed pot, paperwork, hash-making utensils and 6 pounds of "shake" marijuana.

During a search of the suspect's self-storage unit, agents located and seized approximately 111.2 pounds of marijuana bud packaged in half-pound and 1-pound bags.

A John Deere Quad-runner was also located and seized from the storage unit, an indication that the large amount of finished pot may have been the result of a large-scale outdoor marijuana growing operation Foster was in charge of.

Foster, who was released on bail on Saturday after his heroin bust, was not located during the search warrant operations, but you can bet there is an arrest warrant out for him now, and that he will not be cashing in on those 100 pounds this season.

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ballast will not start fire

By unnamed grower, on Nov 28, 2007 - 8:28
It's not really fair to suggest taht a smoking/malfunctioning HID lamp ballast would start a house fire. Those ballasts are contained in heavy duty metal cases, and the whole things are UL listed, which means they will not catch fire when they malfunction. They might smoke a little bit, but they are specifically designed to not start fires when they burn up, like most things that are UL-listed.

Pot growing is not the problem people think it is. The problme is the few bad apples that ruin it for every one. Some of us are very responsible, pay our taxes (yes taxes on pot money), and contribute something other than pot to the communty.

By tjhrajt, on Nov 28, 2007 - 10:29
seems pretty darn coincidental that a ballast in an illegal pot garden would "catch fire" at the exact moment that the fire department was there WITH the cops. come on, there is no way that happened. coppers just wanted to make it look like every pot grow is dangerous, but in reality there are thousands of indoor pot gardens in humboldt and they don't just catch fire all the time.

By Dillon, on Jan 5, 2011 - 18:45
That Shit looks tastey

By elizabeth valencia, on Mar 23, 2012 - 2:35
fuck pot!

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