Be it Texas, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Florida or Louisiana...the laws are ignorant, most of the people are ignorant and it's ridiculous what would happen if anyone living in those states got caught growing medicine for themselves. Now if your renting houses and growing 100's of plants for some cartel or drug ring, then your a criminal running a criminal organization....but for people like us that at most might give some away to other people who need it.....we are not criminals, were just a bunch of open minded people who see the benefits first hand. Pot saved my life, I am a United States Marine who served two tours of Duty in South West Asia....my reward was Gulf War Illness and Small Bowel Disease that caused me not to be able to eat, all I did was throw up and get weaker. 1.5 years doing tests and in and out of the hospital, even the experimental drugs were not working, the pain was incredible...it felt like someone had ahold of my guts and they were slowly pulling them out....saw a friend who I had not seen in a good bit, last time he saw me I was 195, I was 129 lbs and getting weaker...he handed me a joint and told me when I had time to smoke it and see if I felt better....INSTANTLY THE PAIN WAS GONE, SO WAS THE NAUSEA.....I started doing research and that's got me to where I am today, I don't grow weed because I want to profit from it, I grow weed so I can live and enjoy my life with my wife....and if that makes me a criminal, well we got our priorities mixed up as a country then.