What do you mean? You invite them into your house.
I live in reality; if I'd refused, they'd have been back that night with a warrant and would have thrown the book at me. When they came back to verify compliance with applicable ordinances, I had my lawyer with me and they couldn't leave fast enough.
Is that constitutional? Fuck no! There's nothing in there that gives them the right to outlaw a harmless plant in the first place! But here we are, and I played the game to get the desired outcome.
Tell me how you'd have handled it differently and gotten a better result? Here in the reality of Amerika in 2016, not in constitutional rights land.