While we are allowed to grow 6 plants per person in a household in Colorado, it is illegal to grow them outdoors here. A man who lived a few blocks from me was growing some outdoors and realized his plants were being messed with, kids taking leaves and maybe whole plants. One night, two teenage boys came into his yard and from his second story window he decided to protect his plants. He shot and killed one of the young men, and the other was shot also, but survived. Man is doing time now. This was not a case where the Make My Day Law that allows homeowners to protect their home was on his side.
People who grow outdoors here have been arrested and had some consequences that they did not expect.
https://www.denverpost.com/2016/10/14/backyard-marijuana-shooting-neighborhood-burglaries/"
To some of Keith David Hammock’s neighbors, the kids who had repeatedly hopped his fence to steal marijuana plants were merely doing what teenagers do.
Swiping marijuana plants by the root was a dumb and reckless crime, but not a serious one — and it certainly didn’t justify shooting two boys, said a neighbor who identified himself only as Kevin for fear of retaliation.
But to others living on the 2800 block of High Street and the surrounding neighborhood where Hammock, 48, is accused of fatally shooting 15-year-old Keylin Mosley and seriously wounding his 14-year-old friend, the shooting was the inevitable conclusion to an escalating series of crimes including graffiti tagging, car thefts and burglaries that made people worry about their safety. Denver crime statistics verify that property crimes were on the rise in the Whittier neighborhood.
“That wasn’t the first time they were stealing his pot. This ain’t the first incident. The area was heating up,” said Thomas Materese, 34, who works as a cabinet maker out of a garage across the alley from Hammock’s decaying brick home.
Hammock, who had attended community meetings protesting police brutality, is being held in the Denver jail without bail for investigation of attempted first-degree homicide, attempted first-degree homicide and felony marijuana cultivation. He allegedly shot the teens from a second-story window with a .22-caliber rifle at 2 a.m. on Oct. 9."
Much more to the article.
I spent an hour trimming up today. My little room is packed at the moment 
