eddiez.....Did these former friends of your live up on the upper Pacific area, i.e., Northern California, Oregon or Washington? tyler hit it right on the head!!! Good ol' homegrown we knew back in the sixties has grown into the number one cash crop in these states as well as a few more in these united states. Hydroponic cannibis makes it's serious growers easily in the six figures and the larger operations might as well be Fortune 500 companies, if they were legit and could be taken public. Growers in the states I mentioned have been known to guard their business enterprise with automatic weapons, state of the art security systems as well as with snares, traps and explosives, all designed to injure, maim or kill intruders/thiefs. Peace and love has been replaced with offshore bank accounts and lives of the rich and not so famous!!!! Like you said, eddie...just another reason to avoid those ol' people, places and playthings!!!!
Peace,
Hack