Wait a minute. Not only are you planning to grow 420 plants near a highway in a semi-urban area; you're actually planning on having a grow this size within a couple of hundred yards of other growers? You say you trust your buddy with your life... how about these other growers? Do you trust them with your life too? Because that's exactly what you're going to be doing.

You found their sites easily enough; what makes you think they're not going to find yours? And how do you think they're going to feel about that? There's nothing I hate worse than finding some other doper's shit within a few hundred yads of one of my patches. Because no matter how good my own security is, the safety of my crop is now totally dependent upon how good that guy's security is, and if I found his shit, it probably isn't that good.

I have actually walked away from good patches because I found another grower's garden too close to mine halfway through the season. With my crop, i don't have to worry about anyone ratting me out to Leo, because there is not one single soul on the entire planet who knows exactly where I grow. I do it that way for a reason. I don't know shit about this other guy - for all I know, he's some high school kid who told his whole class about his marijuana farm, and now half the cops in Illinois are taking turns watching it from a duck blind. And maybe watching my crop, too. It pisses me off, and if I weren't such a decent guy, I'd probably rip up all those other plants just to take away his reason for ever coming back to that area for the rest of the growing season.

I'm sorry, man, but this is just plain loony. The security risks here are just insane. You're obviously not going to listen to anything the rest of us say, so I'll just wish you good luck and be done with it. The best thing I can say about this is that this is a benefit to those of us who take security more seriously. The easier it is for cops to find headline grows like yours, the less time they have to spend beating the boonies looking for guys like me. I thank you.