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Rush of pot grows splits rural California before legal sales
Yahoo ^ | November 24, 2017 | PAUL ELIAS

Posted on 11/24/2017 8:52:46 PM PST by artichokegrower

The four young men had just started their marijuana harvest in rural Northern California when a dozen sheriff's deputies swooped in with guns drawn, arrested them and spent the day chopping down 150 bushy plants with machetes.

"I could do this every day if I had the personnel," Calaveras County Sheriff Rick DiBasilio said during the operation near the Sierra Nevada foothills town of Copperopolis, about two hours east of San Francisco.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: california; cannabis; marijuana; pot; wod
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They were cited and released. One of them — Ryu Lee, 22, of Redding — told deputies taking him to jail that he would return regardless of whether a ban was enacted.

"I'll see you next year," Lee said.


Fine we will arrest you again at that time.

1 posted on 11/24/2017 8:52:46 PM PST by artichokegrower
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To: artichokegrower

Why not just arrest planet earth?


2 posted on 11/24/2017 8:55:20 PM PST by Gigantor (Either the United States respects its Constitution, or there is no need for a United States.)
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To: artichokegrower

You can smell it almost everywhere now.


3 posted on 11/24/2017 8:55:41 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: Gigantor

I guess we could just shoot the Cartel members we find out in the local woods but that would not be PC


4 posted on 11/24/2017 8:58:00 PM PST by artichokegrower
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To: artichokegrower

>I guess we could just shoot the Cartel members we find out in the local woods but that would not be PC

Hunting accidents happen all the time. It’s a damn shame.


5 posted on 11/24/2017 9:04:54 PM PST by JohnyBoy (The GOP Senate is intentionally trying to lose the majority.)
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To: nickcarraway

It stinks worse than pig farms. It’s like having skunk roadkill all over your neighborhood


6 posted on 11/24/2017 9:05:51 PM PST by LeoWindhorse (America First !)
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To: artichokegrower

Yep. It stinks everywhere. Also, the idea that people who flout the law and several who do some very nasty things (a woman in Humbolt was killing her workers) are going to straighten up and fly right is insane. I have a law enforcement friend in CO and he say 60-80% of the “legal” drug businesses are money laundering venture for the Mexican drug cartel.


7 posted on 11/24/2017 9:23:34 PM PST by rey
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To: LeoWindhorse

“It stinks worse than pig farms.”

And it’s horrible for the environment. Even Liberals admit it: http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2014/03/marijuana-weed-pot-farming-environmental-impacts/


8 posted on 11/24/2017 9:36:05 PM PST by vladimir998 (Apparently I'm still living in your head rent free. At least now it isn't empty.)
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To: artichokegrower

This is not half of the Story, it has destroyed our County


9 posted on 11/24/2017 9:38:13 PM PST by easternsky
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To: rey

I had an office in a building in San Francisco when the first “medical” marijuana dispensaries opened up in the ‘90s. I could tell by the riff raff coming too and fro daily that is was the same old dime bag drug dealers doing “legal” business. What a scam.


10 posted on 11/24/2017 9:39:48 PM PST by lodi90
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To: easternsky

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Marijuana grows have destroyed the area where our ranch is in Jupiter, Tuolumne Co.
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11 posted on 11/24/2017 9:42:42 PM PST by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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It has seriously hurt Ranchers, farmers Land and home owners Famlies the list goes on and on and all they think about is the dollars.
12 posted on 11/24/2017 9:48:25 PM PST by easternsky
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To: easternsky

We live in rural Southern Oregon. About as conservative a place as you can find, despite the bad reputation of Portland and Eugene.

We have dealt with legal pot grows for a couple of years now, and the bottom line is: “no big deal”. And the local economy has perked up substantially. Now I expect that to subside in a little while when the price comes down to earth, but it is not the disaster people make it out to be.

Maybe our laws are better — something other communities should look into.


13 posted on 11/25/2017 12:42:44 AM PST by CurlyDave
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Six years ago, I entered a Florida bank from the rear parking lot. On the outside steps, an employee was taking a “marijuana break”. Was this wise of bank officials to permit something so blatantly wrong—and at a place where accuracy should “count”?


14 posted on 11/25/2017 1:05:47 AM PST by Does so (McAuliffe's Charlottesville...and...The Walter Duranty Press"...)
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"I could do this every day if I had the personnel,"

What arrest farmers, enslave them and steal their property? Thank God you don't!

15 posted on 11/25/2017 1:44:09 AM PST by rawcatslyentist
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Then take the dollars out of it!

If the drug nazis would find gainful productive employment elsewhere and let people grow their own the price would come down to free.

Why would you buy what you can grow for free?

16 posted on 11/25/2017 1:47:48 AM PST by rawcatslyentist
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To: LeoWindhorse

I have pigs and the grows out smell them


17 posted on 11/25/2017 1:59:10 AM PST by easternsky
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To: CurlyDave; little jeremiah

little Jeremiah would take exception to your comments. Granted, his problems are with illegal growers and water thieves. No money for law enforcement.


18 posted on 11/25/2017 2:35:02 AM PST by gundog (Hail to the Chief, bitches.)
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To: easternsky

Bonus! I like the smell of weed farms, and now, it’s an air freshener.


19 posted on 11/25/2017 2:39:39 AM PST by gundog (Hail to the Chief, bitches.)
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To: easternsky

‘This is not half of the Story, it has destroyed our County”

How exactly has cannabis destroyed your county? Did cannabis firebomb your towns or something?


20 posted on 11/25/2017 3:28:26 AM PST by TheStickman (#MAGA all day every day!)
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