Brooklyn, NY – A New York man whose heat lamp sparked a fire in his basement apartment has been charged after emergency responders discovered a ‘marijuana farm,’ police said.
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Officials answering a 911 call about a fire at a building in the Prospect Heights neighborhood in Brooklyn found 40 to 50 marijuana plants, halogen lights and water pumps.
“They discovered a marijuana farm,” said Sophia Mason, a spokeswoman for the New York Police Department.
The occupant of the apartment, a 45-year-old man, has been charged with four felonies related to the drugs. A lawyer representing the man could not immediately be reached for comment.
Address?
is m1 looking to buy???
If they were halogen lamps, he didn’t know what he was doing. Nobody uses halogen for marijuana. You start with Metal Halide and finish with HPS. Common knowledge.
Maybe he was growing for medical use.
I got an esrog branch from Israel many years ago, and needed to learn how to use artificial light to grow it. I wrote to the head of the National Arboretum, who had published papers on artificial light, asking him for advice. He wrote back saying that the biggest experts in practical use are the people that grow pot in their basements, and i should just go buy a copy of High Times. I did, and they are indeed botanical wizards. I learned everything I needed to know. My esrog flourished.