Word: deas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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High technology doesn't play favorities. It helps the NASA engineer, the modern architect, the computer programmer and now marijuana dealers. Using the sophisticated techniques of hydroponics, potgrowers are causing new troubles for the Federal Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA), whose agents are unable to find the indoor-grown pot rapidly becoming a lucrative business...
...farmers. Over 1000 tons of sensemilla were domestically produced last year, at least 10 per cent of which was produced indoors. With the risk of an outdoor field being spotted by authorities, many growers have moved into abandoned warehouses with low rents. In the biggest raid yet in 1981, DEA agents found $200,000 worth of hydroponic pot in a warehouse just outside of San Fransisco two weeks ago. To their dismay, the crop was not only growing faster than normal, but it contained, according to the DEA, "at least twice as much THC tetrahy-drocannibol--pot's active ingredient...
More expensive than the nutrients is the electricity needed to run such an outfit. Without natural sunlight, expensive high intensity lamps must be purchased. When the San Fransisco warehouse's electricity bills jumped 1500 per cent the police became suspicious, leading to the DEA's raid on the stash...
...represent her for $200. But before he could, two federal Drug Enforcement Administration agents went to Morrison's home. They were blunt: "Your lawyer is going to make an ass out of himself, and you too," said one. Get rid of Cucinotta, they urged, and help the DEA finger a bigger pusher in return for leniency. If she refused, they said, she could expect a "stiff sentence" from the judge, who "hates black people...
...first step after hearing from the Supreme Court is to write a brief urging it to uphold the appeals court's decision. He searches for precedents supporting his case, but finds few; his 45-page brief tells how the DEA and the prosecutor tried to pressure Morrison and him. The Government has also filed a brief, which Cucinotta studies before writing his. He scribbles indignant notes in the margins. To the Government's claim that it can control its agents without court interference, Cucinotta quips, "Like Herbert Hoover?" (He means J. Edgar Hoover, the late FBI director...