Very inventive and a great argument for the fact that cities CAN grow what they need without acres and acres of farm land. These guys are green pioneers ... in more ways than one.

Sure, growing marijuana is good, but perhaps there are crops they can grow with as much innovation and with comparable value that won't put them in jail. Change your crop or help change the laws to something quite a bit more mature and civilized.

Sad that their lives are now more complicated because many in our society and our government can't behave as civilized adults.

With farmland rapidly disapearing one way to produce food for an overpopulated earth is to build highrise "farms". Instead of acres of land spread outside dependant on the seasons and the weather, the acreage is vertical indoors. With climate controled on each floor to match optimum growing conditions for the crop grown on that floor, multiple varities of crops from all climate zones can be grown year around in one location. Imagine world trade center sized buildings devoted to growing food. One building could feed a small town. What these people did is what needs to be done on a larger scale for food production as well as what they were growing,cancer cures that don't kill.

75 pounds of buds thats less then one days worth of supply for NY.

Do the feds think there is a problem with the existing drug laws? Good for them. It's to bad they got busted. You don't see the feds destroying the poppy plants in Afghanistan now do you? A whole buildings worth of incredible wonder and pain free living.

Those who enforce these unjust laws are terrorists.

Oh for chrissake, legalize it already.

Holy moley thats alot of grass. Makes your eyes red just thinking about it!

Shame on whoever ratted them out! Shame on the greedy cops and jailers. Shame on the lawmakers for taking kickbacks from those opposed to reforming!

Those bold innovators should get a MEDAL ! That was ingenious ....

Bummer. Young, gutsy, enterprizing, resourceful entrepreneurs struck down by absurd legalities. I bet their "Penthouse" stuff was killer.
I've always thought reefer should be legal to grow but not legal to sell. Grow your own. Keep it personal. Keep it local. If it can't be sold you keep the FDA, sin taxes, and big money out of it.

Must be someone forgot to make the payoff this week...bet the best buds never made it to the evidence locker...boys in blue be smokin' the goog stuff tonight....))

The only reason I don't like it is because it's such a waste of electricity.... Other than the nice crop....

Now imagine that it was legal and all the taxes we would collect instead of spend chasing something people do anyway. Let's go after actually harmful drugs.

The pols are all for small business innovation, until it involves pot. Just think...that pot could've been used for medical purposes. What a waste. The cops will probably end up smoking it.

Many citizen's could be utilizing closed buildings to cultivate cannabis, indoors. 'IF' they would have an honest conversation about cannabis and hemp, people 'could' be utilizing spaces now being wasted.

It's time to unspin the rhetoric spun by politician's and corporation's about cannabis and hemp. This just goes to show you what inginuity could accomplish, if applied.

Educate, innovate and build in America, utilizing cannabis and hemp.

What a waste.

I just saw this on the local news. Damn their luck :*(

Police: Entire NYC building was pot farm

"Hooray!!! Young Entrepreneurs Rock!!!!" =)