Sorry to bring this back a few pages, but RE: marijuana in CA, with the proper license you are allowed to grow up to 99(!!!) plants. I am not sure why anyone would need more than one or two, but there you have it. The Coast Guard does regular flyovers in the heavier growing areas to find potential violators, and if the police ask to see your plants, you'd damn well better not have 100. And I feel very sheltered now, as I don't even know what pot smells like, so I have no way of knowing if it's being used near me.
I like animals. They are tasty (well many of them are) and many are awesome to have around the house (gosh I wish we could have a kitteh here, we found rats/mice in our garage a little while ago, and I know my old kitty would have loved to find them for me).