smalltime newbie here, awaiting first seed order soon and thinking tiny indoor (think PC case or smaller), not a heavy smoker at all, an ounce would last me nearly a year. Someone wanna help with how paranoid I'm getting all of a sudden? I mean, it's australia right, sometimes I feel like literally everyone grows here. I hear about busts all the time but it's usually bikies, commercials, actual criminals looking to turn bank, so really I'm not too concerned, or atleast I wasn't until I read some stuff here and then went over to oz stoners and read all their legal battle threads. Got me worrying a tonne now.
One guy here says he got seeds from the 'tude, they got held up in customs, customs CALLED him and asked wtf was up. He played cool obv. But then cops actually came to his door a short while later to take a look around. Freaky shit. There are some real nutters over at oz stoners, but one guy insists he ordered from attitude twice, cops came first time noticed grow area, no plants, came second time just in time for harvest and busted him.
Yeah I know the obvious response is "If you're this stressed are you really up for it?" And really, it's just to help me deal with some pretty crippling insomnia, it's a risk I gotta' take if I want to survive my degrees and get my portfolio where I want it to be. I think indoor under lights automatically makes it fall under artificial/hydroponic so even if it's one tiny plant it's not necessarily just a fine and slap on the wrist. Big concern is likelihood of copping a crim record for 1 plant; most of my work and future career is dependent on my colleagues in Japan and it is not an easy place to get into with a conviction. So yeah, maybe someone could just humor me? I'm a strict follower of the 3 golden rules when it comes to any less-than-legal activity, especially 'no tell' (this is the first place I've blabbed) but can't help but feel ordering seeds with my credit card already creates a vector to fuck me. Should I bother? what're my odds?