At the end of March, 1993, a caravan of cars set out to the field rented some 120 Km southwest of Barcelona. After spending the morning transplanting 250 little marihuana plants from their pots into the ground, watering the plants carefully, maybe muttering an 'Ave Maria', all the 'planters' went to commenorate the event in a fine restaurant in the local village, and returned happily to Barcelona. Only Jaime and Fokker, a fellow associate from Vic, returned regularly to Montbrio to water the plants, although with very ambiguous feelings. They wanted to see the plants grow and blossom, but on the other hand they knew that these plants were meant to be discovered and confiscated by the forces of the law, in order to set off the legal process which they hoped would clarify the right to cultivate. At one point Jaime felt so frustrated that he was thinking of informing the police himself, just to finish with the feelings of uncertainty and anxiety that had started bothering him.

He was rescued in late June, when an officer from the Mossos d'Esquadra, Catalunya's autonomous police force, came to inquire at the ARSEC offices in the Plaça del Pi in Barcelona about the plants that had been cut off. The ARSEC members were as surprised at the news of the plants having being cut as the Mossos were when hearing that it hadn't been the members who had done it. The plants had not even blossomed yet, which means that for all practical purposes their had not as yet been any psychoactive cannabinoids constituents - like THC and other minor psychoactive components - present in the confiscated plants.

All the same, the mystery was solved shortly afterwards when an order arrived for Jaime to present himself in Tarragona at the offices of the Guardia Civil, Spain's national police force. Even though Jaime was just an ordinary member of the association, for leading the "charge at el Camp de Montbrio" and being regularly present, he was duly included in the accusation, together with the directors of the association. The seriousness of their situation became clear when they learned that for their offense against public health, the prosecutor asked for stiff jail sentences and hefty fines. With pleasure they had given of their time and money to engage the authorities on the right to plant. But what they learned from the prosecutor's actions was the reality of persecution, for nothing more than being able to pass an enjoyable moment without inflicting harm on anybody else.