Having actually been at the grow and like I said, lived with and loved these people: Sure they own guns who doesn't? They also had gasp magic mushrooms!!!! That proves it, they must be violent criminal people who are "ok with jail time" right?

This was decades ago so I suppose its possible that in the intervening time everyone involved in the weed trade has reverted to the violent Hollywood drug dealers of yore, though I find that unlikely.

There really is this perception among more sheltered circles that if you break some given law you must be some kind of stoic gangster type. Its really not true.

Maybe in the 70s when weed came in bricks shipped in by the cartel. During that time the people moving pounds were probably actually dangerous people. During my time as a delinquent though, weed was grown in the mountains by families who were more likely to be caught donating to the local homeless shelter/passing out food and blankets to the homeless than they were "using violence on people on the street"

I promise you, you dont need to live in fear of weed dealers. They are really not that dangerous.