cannabis

Elsewhere, a helicopter pilot circles over a neighborhood, peering into a heat sensitive camera pointed at a house. “We’re looking for the indoor sun,” he explains matter-of-factly. “We only pursue specific objectives,” houses where grow lights have been feminised cannabis seeds bought or some other tangible basis exists to suspect “manufacturing a controlled substance”: a felony. “Look, there’s the light from the house.” His thermal-sensitive screen shows heat leaking out from under the eaves of the house. Site confirmed. Next they obtain a search warrant, raid the property, seize the house under civil proceedings, and prosecute its inhabitants under criminal law. (48 Hrs., CBS television, “Marijuana Growing in California,” October 12, 1989.)