“I wanted to know the legal ramifications of letting the plants stay on my property or for cutting them down. If we were still living in, say, 2005, when digital culture existed to unite people and not to feed corporate dominance, big-data algorithms, and a fire hose to the NSA, I wouldn’t have felt much concern about searching any and all questions associated with my pot possession. But the Internet has become a corporate and government commodity. As long as I had a large crop of marijuana on my property, I was playing for keeps. I would be damned if I would implicate myself with searches on marijuana ownership and corresponding laws.”