1.   A number of readers pointed out that state and federal authorities spend billions of dollars annually destroying pot plants and arresting marijuana growers and users.

2.   But not only marijuana growers are upset about the increased law enforcement activity.

3.   Clint Watson, a convicted marijuana grower from Huntsville, called the shackles uncomfortable and demeaning.

4.   Halloran said marijuana growers tend to use warehouses because they do not arouse much suspicion.

5.   In the folksiest of exchanges, the young man casually mentioned the return from prison of a local marijuana grower, a bit of intelligence the sheriff already knew.

6.   Indoor marijuana growers can insure better quality, speed up production and create highly potent strains that threaten to make bad pot a thing of the past.

7.   Kauai is also where a multimillion-dollar industry of marijuana growers operates, guarding their harvest with armed sentries and deadly booby traps.

8.   Like the Laniers, Sidden makes it a point to get along with shotgun-toting backwoods marijuana growers and moonshiners by turning a blind eye to such enterprises.

9.   On Tuesday, Sheriff Nelson of Washington County showed how the marijuana growers had escaped detection.

10.   Some marijuana growers and dealers are convicted felons who illegally possess firearms, Tracy asserted.