This is why you put carbon scrubbers on your exhaust vents, dumbass.  A successful grow operation in a residential area is an undetected operation.

For starters, you don't want to piss off your neighbors since they can report you to the city.  It is no different than not being that inconsiderate jerk with too many chickens in his backyard stinking up the neighborhood.

The other big reason is because you don't want a smash and grab robbery.  All you need is for the wrong person to walk by and notice the odor, or for somebody to notice it and then through word-of-mouth make its way to the wrong person.  Not only is your crop gone, but your house is probably smashed.  And woe to the person living in the house if they're robbed by a messed up meth tweaker with a gun.

If the smell is only prevalent at certain times, is it a grow op in their basement or are they cooking up hash?

2 years before I moved into this house the pigs pulled something like 10 yard bags worth of pot out of the house. You knew something was up 3 blocks away just by the smell. Hundreds of pounds of Mexican ditch weed stinks

Goetz: Deman: If the smell is only prevalent at certain times, is it a grow op in their basement or are they cooking up hash?

Yes, cooking hash.
This is a person who knows his hashish.
Cooking brings out the best. Doesn't it?
I bow to this expert.

Hey now, everything he learned about drugs was from Breaking Bad. You have to cook things and weed is just like meth :p

Well I know there isn't actually any cooking in the process, unless you count boiling water as cooking. The other explanations would be only opening the vents when they think it wouldn't be noticed(they failed.)

Goetz: Deman: If the smell is only prevalent at certain times, is it a grow op in their basement or are they cooking up hash?

Yes, cooking hash.
This is a person who knows his hashish.
Cooking brings out the best. Doesn't it?
I bow to this expert.

How do you cook up hash? I've seen some YT vids and you either use bubble bags, beat the weed over screens, or you use your hands so the resin sticks to it and you scrape it off..

AeAe: Goetz: Deman: If the smell is only prevalent at certain times, is it a grow op in their basement or are they cooking up hash?

Yes, cooking hash.
This is a person who knows his hashish.
Cooking brings out the best. Doesn't it?
I bow to this expert.

How do you cook up hash? I've seen some YT vids and you either use bubble bags, beat the weed over screens, or you use your hands so the resin sticks to it and you scrape it off..

Don't know, cant say, wont tell.

Dear neighbors,

Screw the zoning regulations. You can get this guy for private nuisance, if the smell is so bad that you cannot reasonably enjoy your own property. Start hauling his ass to court and he'll get the message.

Gyrfalcon: Screw the zoning regulations. You can get this guy for private nuisance, if the smell is so bad that you cannot reasonably enjoy your own property. Start hauling his ass to court and he'll get the message.

Pot is still a polarizing subject amongst many people. "Reasonably" can run a pretty huge gamut in this instance.

VTGremlin: Gyrfalcon: Screw the zoning regulations. You can get this guy for private nuisance, if the smell is so bad that you cannot reasonably enjoy your own property. Start hauling his ass to court and he'll get the message.

Pot is still a polarizing subject amongst many people. "Reasonably" can run a pretty huge gamut in this instance.

So? If it was me, I would not care about winning, I would just care about making his life as miserable as he was making mine.

Dinjiin: This is why you put carbon scrubbers on your exhaust vents, dumbass.  A successful grow operation in a residential area is an undetected operation.

For starters, you don't want to piss off your neighbors since they can report you to the city.  It is no different than not being that inconsiderate jerk with too many chickens in his backyard stinking up the neighborhood.

The other big reason is because you don't want a smash and grab robbery.  All you need is for the wrong person to walk by and notice the odor, or for somebody to notice it and then through word-of-mouth make its way to the wrong person.  Not only is your crop gone, but your house is probably smashed.  And woe to the person living in the house if they're robbed by a messed up meth tweaker with a gun.

Came to say this.

Also the paper published his grow address and all. He is done one way or another.

As I recall from too far back in the day, marijuana has a rather pleasant odor.

Since I live in Colorado, I'll check my memory and report back.

Several years ago I went to a friend's house and smelled a particular odor, like skunk musk.

My buddy smiled and said, "You wanna see something really cool?"

"Sure!" I said.

He took me to the basement, unlocked a door, and showed me his grow room.

He later made $5000 from one person from just 20 square feet of basement space.

Gyrfalcon: Dear neighbors,

Screw the zoning regulations. You can get this guy for private nuisance, if the smell is so bad that you cannot reasonably enjoy your own property. Start hauling his ass to court and he'll get the message.

What if you have some whiny limp wristed neighbor who can't stand the smell of your barbecue/smoker? Does that qualify as a '"public nuisance"?

Dinjiin: This is why you put carbon scrubbers on your exhaust vents, dumbass.  A successful grow operation in a residential area is an undetected operation.

For starters, you don't want to piss off your neighbors since they can report you to the city.  It is no different than not being that inconsiderate jerk with too many chickens in his backyard stinking up the neighborhood.

The other big reason is because you don't want a smash and grab robbery.  All you need is for the wrong person to walk by and notice the odor, or for somebody to notice it and then through word-of-mouth make its way to the wrong person.  Not only is your crop gone, but your house is probably smashed.  And woe to the person living in the house if they're robbed by a messed up meth tweaker with a gun.

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/FTA - Property is located at 1"397 Crestwood"
//FTA - "The verified petition also questions whether Klochubar and Engle live at the property ..."
///Considering more than 12 hours has passed, smash and grab probably already happened.

david_gaithersburg: /FTA - Property is located at 1"397 Crestwood"
//FTA - "The verified petition also questions whether Klochubar and Engle live at the property ..."
///Considering more than 12 hours has passed, smash and grab probably already happened

////House is near Detroit.

BlackMtnMan: As I recall from too far back in the day, marijuana has a rather pleasant odor.

Since I live in Colorado, I'll check my memory and report back.

I realized something about the smell when I stayed a day in Amsterdam last month. I had unconsciously been trained to associate the smell as risky and dangerous because it was illegal. Even in that place and I did not have any, it still gave me a sense of unease like I was getting in trouble.

It's Ypsi.  The cops have a lot bigger things to worry about than pot.

/go to school in Ypsi
//it's not as bad as Detroit
///...yet

First, there is obviously no such thing as a contact high and I wish people would stop furthering the myth. Second, these people must really hate skunks.

This is pretty high class for Ypsitucky. I'd expect the grow house to be in neighboring Ann Arbor and a meth lab in Ypsi.

LadyBelgara: It's Ypsi.  The cops have a lot bigger things to worry about than pot.

/go to school in Ypsi
//it's not as bad as Detroit
///...yet

Around these parts, the cops would be creaming their pants over an opportunity to bust a grow house.
Easy, low-hanging fruit for them, and an opportunity for the local police chief to brag on the nightly news of the supposed street value they stopped.

As a neighbor, why not empty a can of expansion foam into that vent at 4 am?

Problem solved for under 10 bucks.

Well, with the address and picture of this grow house published for all to see, I'm sure this problem will be resolved in short order.
Well played, township, well played.

FILTER that stank:
http://bigbudsmag.com/grow/gear/article/carbon-filters-can-filters-au g ust-2011

Trying again:
Filter that stank

Wanted for questioning

Wait, my neighbors got into the news? Mr ConCon and I put on the air purifier in the living room because the smell was getting so strong...

Marijuana is for losers

david_gaithersburg: /FTA - Property is located at 1"397 Crestwood"
//FTA - "The verified petition also questions whether Klochubar and Engle live at the property ..."
///Considering more than 12 hours has passed, smash and grab probably already happened.

If they haven't experienced a robbery yet, I'm betting that the people who own the place are paranoid that one will be coming soon.  I'm curious if they're going to hire a guard, move shop or actually stay put.

Michigan Right to Farm Act for the win?

MICHIGAN RIGHT TO FARM ACT Act 93 of 1981

New Medical Marijuana Law Presents Legal Challenges to Michigan Municipalities

This is how the story was displayed on my screen:

Ypsilanti Township has filed a lawsuit against a man and a woman accused of pumping a strong marijuana odor from their home.

According to a verified petition filed in Washtenaw County Circuit Court, the odor is so "overwhelming" that it has regularly disrupted next door neighbors' life over the last year.

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Police and township officials say they have smelled the odor outside the home at 1397 Crestwood Ave. on multiple occasions. That constitutes a violation of a zoning ordinance that states that the "creation of offensive odors shall be prohibited" in any zone, attorneys contend.
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