3. TIL that NYC beekeepers noticed their bees making red honey, which led to an inv...

TIL that NYC beekeepers noticed their bees making red honey, which led to an investigation that ultimately exposed the city's largest marijuana farm in the basement of a Brooklyn cherry factory

Or because he had zero priors, and while it was a huge grow op they couldn't find much on the premise as he has recently finished a harvest and shipped it off.

I don't care what race you are, no priors and the best they can hold over your is a moderate amount of weed and seeds is only going to be a handful of years. If you can afford a decent lawyer you can probably even try for better than that.
If you can prove you remaining in society is a benefit to society (aka you own and operate a factory like this guy) they will be very generous with probation since you have no priors.

This have fuck all to do with race. This has everything to do with the circumstances.

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