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>> most illegally grown marijuana uses large amounts of stolen electricity

Source? Reasoning?

pretty much any report of a cannabis farm getting busted and ofgem (the Uk electricity regulator) estimated that a third of the stolen electricity is used for this purpose

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/cannabis-farms-respo...

reasoning: you're using indentured trafficked workers trapped in homes (and possibly also fraudulently claiming housing benefits) to grow an illegal product. Electricity will be a significant cost (in the UK, at least) and so stealing it makes more sense.

Wait, indentured trafficked workers are used to grow marijuana?

Certainly in the UK this is the case - people are smuggled into the UK, and have to repay the cost of being smuggled by growing cannabis (or sex work, or similar). Passports are removed, fear is created about going to police, people are locked into houses, etc.

Yes, from what I understand - BBC Radio 4's PM news program covered this yesterday. They were focusing on Vietnamese trafficking gangs.

Bypass the meter. Abnormally high readings are reported in some places.

you can't bypass all meters. the one in your home is not the only one that the utility has.

Can confirm.

I have sourced all the mcdonalds wifi in my area to grow marijuana. It's like how the sonar in the dark knight works.

All of the free wifi gets channeled in to my grow lights.

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