[KeyLargo]

[Texas Eagle]

No wonder those poor soldiers at Ft. Hood couldn't defend themselves.

The DEA, The BLM and all the other government bureaucracies are bogarting all the guns.

[ilovesarah2012]

Unbelievable. Hope she sues the pants off of them.

[Texas Eagle]

Agents say they thought she was growing pot indoors.

Ah. They THOUGHT she was growing pot. Well, by all means then, go ahead, violate every right she is inalienably endowed with.

[RWGinger]

This seems silly
How much did she buy?
was just enough for her personal use IF in fact she was going to raise mj
or was it such a huge amount she was opening a ‘dealership”

[Antihero101607]

I’m beginning to wonder when stuff like this will start happening to people who shop at Army/Navy stores or gun shows.

[Gaffer]

When these goons start wondering whether they’ll go home at night is when they’ll stop this crap.

[DonaldC]

It was pretty well known here in Colorado Springs if you did hydroponics you were likely being watched by somebody. Profiling nobody cares about I guess.

[andyk]

Agents say they thought she was growing pot indoors.

Sounds like probable cause to me! Woohoo War on Drugs!

[Spok]

The feds operate on the legal standard of “possible cause”.

[Oatka]

A fuller report at HuffPost.

Classic Big Brother mindset:
"Kaminski wrote that he then sifted through Kirking's household trash, detecting "a strong odor of green cannabis" in one plastic trash bag, and compared her home's electrical bill to that of her neighbors, finding that it was higher. Another officer conducted a field test on a green plant stem, which allegedly tested positive for marijuana. That was enough for a judge to sign a warrant."

and this corker of rationale (italics mine):

"An application for a search warrant for a different Midwest Hydroganics customer, Tomczak noted, stated that police had found no evidence of marijuana plant residue in the trash -- and suggested that was evidence a suspect was covering up his marijuana grow."

These people reach new heights of idiocy each day.

[dforest]

I need a new pressure cooker, mine is 14 years old. Saw one on Amazon I like but I am scared to buy it because I would probably get the same treatment as this woman.

Closest thing they will get to a bomb at my house is the day after Hambeens and cornbread! LOL

[Mariner]

The drug warriors support this sort of activity by the feds.

[IMR 4350]

This is clearly covered under the “cudda” clause in the constitution..

As is “she cudda been growing pot” so we have a right to search her house.

Don’t buy a shovel or “you cudda been trying to bury a body”.

[ChildOfThe60s]

BrownShirt tipping point alert.

Just the beginning...........

[pallis]

How much did that little act of domestic terrorism cost the taxpayers, and which is worse, the suspected offense, or the intended cure?

[DonaldC]

We need an exit strategy for America’s longest useless war, the war on drugs.

[Jack Hydrazine]

Were any dogs shot during this raid?

[Chode]

the DEA, AKA - FEDERAL GOVERNMENT... and this wasn't handled by the local doughnut munchers because???

[Nifster]

smart guys think that you only use hydroponics for dope grows....too bad they nothing about growing your own FOOD

[who knows what evil?]

My wife and I got 'swatted' when a neighbor with an ax to grind reported us for growing weed...didn't seem to occur to them that people might be using workbench lights ($30 at Home Depot) for starting tomato, pepper and greasy bean seedlings like every other damn home gardener in the country. Police apologized profusely, and NONE of our six cats were killed.

Of course, WE are permanently traumatized.