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1. How to Protect Your Marijuana Growing Area
To determine the type and degree of protection your marijuana garden might need,
you must thoroughly evaluate the location based upon accessibility. You must also
keep in mind that certain security devices and procedures are so obvious that they
could give you away by their very presence. Thieves will not waste their time
breaking into a house that has nothing valuable, and dead giveaways that you are
protecting something worth stealing are security company signs plastered
everywhere, obvious security cameras on poles, and any kind of fortification, like
bars on windows and doors. Remember, you’re aiming for normality here—your
house or farm must seem average and bland, just like all the others in your
neighborhood. It should not stand out in any way. Pit bulls in your backyard are
completely over-the-top when a single Chihuahua would be much more effective
as an alarm and not draw any undue attention.
I have toured the backyard marijuana growing operation of someone even more
cautious than I am, and this person believes that technology is the answer to
security. You must decide if you need his level of protection or not. He has
mounted floodlights on the right and left corners of the bottom of the roof facing
his backyard. In the middle of the bottom of the roof he has mounted a closed-
circuit TV camera with a built-in microphone that uploads the video images to his
home computer or his smartphone and records them. He also has installed a
motion-detection sensor system to not only turn on the lights and camera but also
to trigger an alarm of wailing sirens. His theory about this level of protection is
that he wants to scare off intruders and record who they are. You’ll have to
research this level of security for your particular setup, but if you want to go
through with it, start with Dakota Alert, which makes some reasonably priced
motion detection sensors that detect humans but not small animals. The device
should be hidden in the middle of the yard and ideally could be engineered to start
the camera and turn on the lights simultaneously. This way, even if you’re gone
when a raid happens, at least the lights and siren will scare off the intruders or alert
the neighbors to call the cops.

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Anyway, the intruders won’t have time to track down all the marijuana plants
hidden in the yard. If it works, you’ll have a YouTube video that will go viral!
If you want to go down this road, Secure Sight makes a very handy, three-in-one
security unit that includes a 500-watt floodlight with a three megapixel digital
camera with a time and date stamp for still photos, and a digital video recorder
with a 512-megabyte SD card. The system has a motion detector built into it, plus a
USB cable for connecting it to your computer. The unit is self-contained, weighs
only four pounds, and can be installed in minutes. It costs a mere $149 and is
available from www.northerntool.com.
I think this level of security is excessive and if an alarm is triggered, what are the
ramifications? Even if you’re growing marijuana legally, you have just announced
to the world that you have something very valuable on your property, and you
probably have compromised the location for further growing. Let’s go for simpler
security solutions.