Growin' The Ganja

In Coldwater Creek, Georgia, police raided an ordinary-looking home only to find 680 marijuana plants under bright lights. They had broken in on yet another marijuana-growing operation. Investigators have been seeing more of these grow houses in the South and in New England, as opposed to their more common locations in California and Canada. In Georgia, the latest busts averaged about 200 plants per house. With each plant yielding $4,000 on average per harvest, that works out to about $3.2 million per year, considering the plants can be harvested every three months. More than 400,000 plants with a potential annual value of $6.4 billion were seized from grow houses in the U.S. just last year. This number increased from about 270,000 the year before. That is less than 10 percent of the marijuana plant seizures in the U.S.; most pot is grown outdoors on farms and in ditches, backyards and gardens.
Some might think this to be a strange topic, but we should be reminded that citizens today are not the first ones to grow marijuana, for one reason or another. Back when the Native Americans were residents on their land, they grew pounds of marijuana, for medicinal reasons and for fun. They, however, grew theirs in the outdoors, for they did not have the technology and resources we have available today.