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    Default Current UK cultivation law seems pretty good?

    I watched a youtube vid earlier on the UK legal position and it seemed positive really.

    So if someone gets busted there are 4 classifications of how they will be charged which seems largely based on how many plants you have.

    Cat 1: Colombian drug lord or similar. Worse is 10 years
    Cat 2: same as above: Worse is 6 years
    Cat 3: 23 plants or over: 2 - 5 years
    Cat 4: 9 plants or over: community service to 3 years
    Nothing written for 8 plants or below at all, it all starts at 9+?

    Heaps of other stuff plays a role next, like previous relevant charges etc.

    So how do they deal with 8 plants or below? The video suggested that no ones really bothered ,but does anyone know what the situation is? Seems 8 and below is the magic number

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    What you have been looking at seems to be Judges sentencing guidelines...

    Cultivation of cannabis (regardless of the number of plants) has a maximum penalty of 14 years imprisonment and/or an unlimited fine

    However, it is, as you suggest, split down into more sensible categories for sentencing.

    In a nutshell, the guidelines suggest that anything over 9 plants is the start of possible prison time... that is why we have rules as we do, it protects the site from unwanted interest & protects you in a worse case scenario... 8 plants? I would expect maybe some community service... but it's all down to if the judge had sex the previous night

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    Is this 8 plants per person or household, 4 adults live in my gaff so by rights I should be ok with 32 plants.
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    Quote Originally Posted by toblue View Post
    Is this 8 plants per person or household, 4 adults live in my gaff so by rights I should be ok with 32 plants.
    "In your gaff" - one house.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Erby View Post
    I watched a youtube vid earlier on the UK legal position and it seemed positive really.

    So if someone gets busted there are 4 classifications of how they will be charged which seems largely based on how many plants you have.

    Cat 1: Colombian drug lord or similar. Worse is 10 years
    Cat 2: same as above: Worse is 6 years
    Cat 3: 23 plants or over: 2 - 5 years
    Cat 4: 9 plants or over: community service to 3 years
    Nothing written for 8 plants or below at all, it all starts at 9+?

    Heaps of other stuff plays a role next, like previous relevant charges etc.

    So how do they deal with 8 plants or below? The video suggested that no ones really bothered ,but does anyone know what the situation is? Seems 8 and below is the magic number
    Looks like the standard sentencing guidelines mukka

    They also look at how commercial the operation is:

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    all depends on the judge too like mc said!
    if your not selling n only percy n you can prove it most importantly then its swings n roundabouts how they go about it!
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    Got to be very careful if you make any derivatives of the plant e.g. oil

    You have a level of sophistication that could prevent you being considered for the lower sentences




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    Quote Originally Posted by gardro View Post
    Got to be very careful if you make any derivatives of the plant e.g. oil

    You have a level of sophistication that could prevent you being considered for the lower sentences




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    Yer the more complex the set up, the harsher the sentence too, follow the three rules, you should never have an issue

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    Most busts here in the UK are usually due to an unrelated incident investigation or if you are taking the piss and stinking the whole street out. I think they are more interested in electricity theft and really big growers over 70 plants.

    We had an old bank building in our village full of the stuff top to bottom, I know for a fact that it was reported by at least 10 different people as it is in the village centre and the whole place stank. The shop next to the bank had customers complaining. All they did was send a community police officer round who tried to look through the letter box but it was boarded up. He (the community cop) stuck a sign on the door with his mobile number on asking them to call him, obviously they just ignored it.

    The building had been bought at auction by some Newcastle gangsters for 110k, they got 3-4 grows out of it before renovating it into flats. Nothing was ever done about it.

    Felt like reporting the gangsta cu~ts myself but couldn't bring myself to do it.
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    Made me laugh a little bit, I am considered to be an upstanding member of our village community (I jest you not) so people were coming up to me in the street telling me how terrible it all was, I did have to have a sly smile at times.
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