no offence heathen, but you have smoked yourself retarded. provided the grower flushes the plants before harvesting, hydroponically grown cannabis better represents the actual tastes and smells of strains as there is nothing like soil to impart its own tastes and odours. I will agree that growing hydroponically is a massive waste of resources, but the growers shouldn't be looked down on by bush growers for wanting to protect their investment and their freedom. Unlike in Nimbin, if we city folk chain ourselves to the copper chopper to prevent them from searching for crops we will get one or all of the following: tazed, pepper sprayed, bashed, arrested, backgrounds looked into, homes searched, assets taken, etc. and even if we won for the day they'd simply send in more choppers and then wait us out. The point I'm trying to make is that its the laws and theives that force us indoors and it would be more than fair to say that if they weren't an issue 99.9999% of all growers would be doing it in their backyards instead of in national parks and that would keep the hardcore hippies as happy as pigs in shit. oh and good on you for carrying on about how we can't live without 240 volts and all our consumer products via an online forum