Good Thread!
My bud and I started back in 87 or 88.
Weed was getting hard to find and people were getting busted.
High Times was publishing articles on how to grow and we decided to give it a try.
Bought a 400 watt HPS and MH and built two small rooms for growing and flowering.
Long story short: The grow was cooked to death by the lights and summer heat, I had a few hundred dollars run up on my credit card.
Reagan pushed the war on drugs with FLIR
and obtained lists of people who bought lights and growing apparatus
from the vendors in High Times and such and were busting people all over the place.
Pretty much ended growing... until now.