What happens to an individual who is growing under 25 plants in a home and gets busted with them? What happens if said person has a prior misdemeanor possession charge?

Jail Time? House Arrest? Fines?

I've searched around and seen the laws posted on NORML but still cant find a defientl answer on what actually happens to someone who is busted with under 25 plants.

ill be while i wait for your excellent answers.

Depends on how much it weighed and if the feds were involved. The number of plants makes no difference they will weigh them whole (roots and all) and the weight is what they go by.

If its under 25 LBS its a felony and punishable by up to five years in prison and a fine of up to $5,000.

If it's over 25 LBS it's considered trafficking and has a mandatory minimum of 3 years in prison and a fine of $25,000.

Those are FLA's laws, if the feds get involved it's up to 5 years in prison and up to $250,000 in fines.

If you're looking at this you best speak with a good lawyer ASAP. Make sure he's not an ex-prosecutor and has experience with these types of cases. You can try the NORML website to help find a lawyer.

Good luck man.

florida laws are harsh. They just passed harsher laws a few months ago. Look it up on the NORML website.

I think he is asking if it's a first time 25 and under plant felony with a prior misdemeanor charge, will he get the harshest punishment? 5 years and fines? Or will they let him off easier, maybe no jail time? I don't know the answers to these questions but maybe someone here does!

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I wish I could grow, but I respect the law of my authority figures.

he's going to jail, florida has some of the harshest anti-weed laws in the country...

Dude, get with the Lawyers web sites. I found that up to 5 lbs. here in TX is 2 to 10. Have somebody call one of them Drug Lawyers, ask them First, what does the charges say. Mine says 1 to 5 lbs. I'm not worried because if the law can't convict you for the shit, then, to me, I can do it legal as hell. They busted me, it will get thrown out, plus I've got a good civil suit, although I had 20 or so Ladies. If the shit was in oz. bags, the charges may be "meant to distribute. Find out what the arresting officer charged, first, & the "said" amount. PM me anytime. Chill, it's a long process.

Lady Killing Dick Suckers, just took the above ground part, said it had to be dried to get the proper amount. If the bitches tried to add roots, that challenges the wording of the indictment itself. Does your Legislate say that a fucking root is a "controlled substance". BS. wet weed is not smokable.... If wet weed was used, I would content the pigs pissed on it prior to bagging the shit, to up the weight. If any Law Dogs are reading this, suck my dick, Bitch. Tell me about the probable cause that started the shit.

so every state weighs the whole plant? i was wondering, its a $100 ticket here for growing or poss under 100g's... is that the pot and soil too? anyone?

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Think... Every letter & word of the indictment must be proved...... dirt & roots is not mentioned in the indictment.

I know what he's asking but the only people that can answer the question with any accuracy are the prosecutor and the judge involved in the case. Even his lawyer can not tell him with 100% certainty what will happen. He can offer an educated guess but I can tell you from experience that if you get a prosecutor with a bug up his ass or a judge thats a hard ass on pot growers you're in for a rough ride.

Yeah you keep telling yourself that man, just hope you don't end up like Tyrone Brown of Texas who served 17 years of a LIFE sentence because he tested positive for pot while he was on probation for robbing some dude of TWO BUCKS. He only did 17 years because people fought for him and he got a conditional pardon.

Or Mark Young who is currently doing life in prison for introducing a buyer with a seller in a big pot deal. Anyone else in his position would have gotten about 20 years but because he refused to rat other people out and he had two past (relatively minor) drug related felonies the prosecutor played hardball and filed an enhancement where when found guilty he had a mandatory minimum sentence of life without parole.

In an the article police discover world's largest marijuana plants Chris Conrad, a court-qualified cannabis expert said:

"Cops often inflate the weight of their yield by using the fresh weight instead of the dry weight of the plants, BTW, so the most typical inflation is 400%; in other words, their alleged 10 pounds is most likely to weigh about 2.5 pounds, based on the typical cop exaggeration."

Wildfire if your facing these charges best thing to do is talk to a good lawyer. If you're trying to figure out what could happen to someone in that situation you have to assume the max penalties and base decisions on that.