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A total of six people were an-ested in Oakland and San Francisco.....Authorities seized 1,500 marijuana plants during raids of homes in Oakland and West Sacramento. Each plant had. a high content of the active ingredient THC and was capable of producing a pound of the drug....... Investigators found that every room there had been converted to grow marijuana and seized 700 plants......Authorities also found evidence of a marijuana-growing operation -- but no drugs -- at a home on the 1700 block of 11th Avenue in Oakland, Giorgi said. Al] six suspects were arrested on suspicion of conspiracy and cultivation of marijuana and wore each. being held in lieu. of $1 million at Yolo County Jail. Source: http://www.s(;~ate.com/egi- 17in/article.cgi'?f /c/aJ2007/02/07/BAGE6O0LSIL93.DT1_, BAhERSFLELD, Calif. --Benjamin Martinez, 21, was arrested at this home Wednesday in south Bakersfield. Police said they found 144 mature, high-quality marijuana plant`s and 35 non-budding plants inside his home, which altogether police estimate have a street value of $500,000. Along with the plants, police seized three pounds of processed high-grade marijuana and $12,200. Police also allegedly found Martinez in possession of a 9 mm Tec-9, a 9 mm Uzi pistol and a bullet restraint vest. Police said he could face weapons charges for having these guns. Martinez had completely sealed. the garage of the home that he rented three months ago and installed grow lights and a watering and feeding system, police said. Police called this a very sophisticated marijuana growing operation. Neighbors said that lvlartinez was quiet and. that they very rarely saw him outside. The BPD could not get into how it learned about this operation, but said that it believe he intended to sell the marijuana Source: http:i/www.ttu-nto23.corn/news/1097372.4/cletaii.html Marigolds make way for marijuana in suburbia By Patrik Jonsson ~ Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor CREEKWOOD DRIVE:....Raids on 40 houses in 12 suburban Georgia counties over the past two weeks are one recent sign of what police say i.s a national trend in marijuana marketing: growing the illicit crop year-round indoors, using suburban homes as "grow- houses." Grow-houses - a spacious incarnation of the old grow-room -have proliferated.... as antidrug squads have chased growers off remote mountainsides and out of conifields. In these basements, lights hum with. thousands of watts across a sea of plants lodged in a hydroponics soup of nutrients. Upstairs, there's usually no furniture, police say, except a cot, a chair, and arabbit-ear TV. "It's the most impressive thing I've seen in 20 years of law enforcement," says Lt. Jody Thomas of the Fayette County Drug Taskforce.....The trend also signals that "production is moving closer to consumption" - a path that leads straight to the suburbs, says Jon Gettman; editor of the Bulletin of Cannabis Reform in Lovettsville, Va., which promotes legalizing marijuana for medicinal. use..... Experts say it was only a matter of time before syndicates began applying basic black-market principles: higher potency and consistent yields equal more profit........Here's how it worked...A wealthy buyer tied to a group of Cuban nationals in Miami bought homes in the endless suburbs of metro Atlanta. So as not to raise suspicion, growers illegally cut into public utilities such as water and electricity. Fences would go up in the backyards, and basement windows would be blacked over..... 10 75A-105