That and the fact that police techniques for locating this kind of thing is pretty advanced. Until recently (LED grow lamps) the power consumption from grow lamps was so high that the power company would notice and the police would take interest. Cops can also drive around with infrared cameras looking for hot exhaust air/lamps, visible even if windows are blocked. Helicopters with infrared cameras can see hidden grow plots outside.
Even when I was looking at it people were still split over LED vs conventional lights for growing, so it's only gotten easier to evade detection as the legality of growing has relaxed (literal definition: become less strict again).
I don't know about shrooms, but they're peanuts compared to weed anyway. Obviously it's infeasible to grow coca anywhere in the US- you need a huge amount to produce any drug. Likewise creating LSD/MDMA/meth without synthetic, highly controlled precursors is pretty much completely infeasible. You could grow morning glories for ergot... if you wanted to harvest an entire field of them.
But yeah, any decent chemist could figure out how to make any of the big drugs very easily. The precursor restrictions only keep out the non-experts. Even a penniless chemist knows that going to jail for that will make him totally radioactive for the rest of his life.
Even when I was looking at it people were still split over LED vs conventional lights for growing, so it's only gotten easier to evade detection as the legality of growing has relaxed (literal definition: become less strict again).
I don't know about shrooms, but they're peanuts compared to weed anyway. Obviously it's infeasible to grow coca anywhere in the US- you need a huge amount to produce any drug. Likewise creating LSD/MDMA/meth without synthetic, highly controlled precursors is pretty much completely infeasible. You could grow morning glories for ergot... if you wanted to harvest an entire field of them.
But yeah, any decent chemist could figure out how to make any of the big drugs very easily. The precursor restrictions only keep out the non-experts. Even a penniless chemist knows that going to jail for that will make him totally radioactive for the rest of his life.