Great responses (except the "I'd take it" guy).
To anyone thinking of stealing, think how you'd feel if you came home and all your stuff was gone.
Every bit of it. All your furnature, t.v., computer, fridge, bed, c.d.'s, etc. all gone, stripped to the bare walls.
How would that make you feel?
Why would you want to make someone feel that way?
Especially when it's sooo easy to grow all you can smoke.
One point:
NEVER retaliate with violence. It's counter-productive.
Let's say you find someone ripping off your plants and beat him up/injure him.
He'd either go to the hospital/cops or come back with some friends and beat YOU up.
So if you retaliate that way, you'll either end up in jail or the hospital.
Kharma will take care of rippers.
The best example I've ever heard of, kharma-wise:
A low-life neighbor followed me out to the mountains one afternoon, with the intent of finding my garden and ripping me off.
I noticed him following me when I turned off onto a little-used road.
So instead of driving to the trailhead, I drove to a campground and made camp.
I was prepared for inpromto camp-outs; he wasn't.
I had food and a comfy down sleeping bag and tent and campstove; he didn't.
I spent the night in relative comfort, while he huddled in his car, cold and hungry.
And the next morning I returned home, never going anywhere near my garden.
And then I found out that while this guy was out following me, someone broke into his house and stole a bunch of his stuff.
Perfect.
P.S. I went back that next day and tended my garden while he was bemoaning his fate.
