Future roommate woes

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Ryann L

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After I graduate high school, in approximately 226 days, I'll be moving away from my home town, and going to college a few hours south. For the last 3 years I've known who my roommates are going to be, they're very good friends of mine, however as of late they have decided that they want to grow pot in our garage once we move into our apartment. They say that they will get medical growing cards (I live in California), and it will all be legit. But they also want to sell some on the side, which is certainly illegal. I don't really want to be a part of this, I mean I'm okay with them smoking it, I have nothing against weed, I'm just afraid they will get caught selling, and that it will end up getting me into serious legal trouble. Is there any logical arguments I can use to convince them to not grow, I mean since it will be indoors wouldn't it cost them more for the lights and electricity and everything then the profits they would be getting out of it? Also what sort of legal trouble do I stand to get myself into just for living with them? Any help would be appreciated.
 
If you knowingly allow it to go on, you can be tried as an accessory to whatever they're charged with, be it unlawful possession or possession with intent to distribute. Whatever it is, you'll basically be charged with whatever it is that they are, just because you knew about it and did nothing to prevent/stop it from happening.
 
If they can prove that you knew they were selling. If you had no prior knowledge of them selling it and they had a legal right to grow it theoretically you should be fine.

I'm just pissed off cause the sweet I was having delivered never showed up. I guess I'll just wait till tomorrow.
 
What about profits? I mean grow lamps cost a lot of money, is their any logical argument I could use to dissuade them from growing? I like these guys, Id rather not have it come down to me not rooming with them, but I'm not about to get my self arrested, with my luck it would be the week before graduation.
 
Sabotage.... Too much fertilizer, wrong light periods, insect infestation. There are plenty of ways you can stop them before it gets to the selling phase of the operation.

Yes grow lights are expensive and take a lot of electricity to run. Using them, you also have to worry about temperature because they put off a lot of heat which could kill the plants.
 
That's actually quite an interesting idea, if it gets to that point I might actually consider that, however I'd rather not screw my friends out of the money they invested in the whole thing, I mean if legally they could grow only 6 mature plants I don't see how they would get a whole lot of profit from selling, they are also smokers so they would also have to use the plants for themselves.
 
You underestimate the potency and production of a properly grown and manicured plant much less six. Do they have any idea what they are doing? I'm not talking about "I read such and such about doing it.", I'm talking about been there seen it done it and smoked that shit.
 
There are no dorms at the college I'm attending (it's a JC), I've thought this one over obviously if the problem doesn't get solved I'll do this, but rent where I live is expensive and you need multiple roommates to get by, and finding alot of people that you can actually stand in a town where I don't know that many people is difficult. Besides I love these guys, this is just an issue I'd like to resolve.



Your right I do, I've only witnessed a few grows, and haven't read up on it much, surprisingly considering I live in the emerald triangle. They certainly have more knowledge on the subject than I do, but I don't think they really know much about the actual growing process.
 
Friends that become roommates typically ends up bad for everyone in the end. You'll end up being unpleasantly surprised at habits they have, that you weren't aware of.

Been there, done that.

Words of wisdom from da'kid.
 
This is true, but, in my experience this is better than living with strangers. Sure, they might have habits that annoy the fuck out of you, but so will the strangers, and, at least at the end of the day you're still buddies.

That is, if you guys are willing to communicate and work on each others concerns, it's great. If you are, or have a stubborn, or bull-headed natured friends, it's probably not the best idea.
 
... or if your "friends" are idiots who wish to compromise your livelihood with asshattery.

If they insist on following through with this plan (to sell weed), they are not very good friends. Find somewhere else to live.
 
The bad part about that is...if things don't go well, you may end up losing a friendship. If it's a "stranger" than who fucking cares.

But yeah, what 53V3N says holds the most water...if your room mates are doing something you definitely dont approve of, then don't move in with them in the first place.
 
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