Posted on 09/27/2014 4:29:58 AM PDT by Texas Eagle
West Virginia natural resources police say they have made 11 arrests and seized 190 pounds of dry ginseng that was illegally harvested according to the Associated Press. The arrests followed a year-long investigation in southern West Virginia. The defendants violated a ginseng digging law because it was harvested out of season. Ginseng digging season begins September 1st in West Virginia.
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Makes you feel safer that they value ginseng and its criminals more than protecting us from head lopping islamic murderers. rest easy
This investigation lasted a year. Your tax dollars at work.
-- Thomas Jefferson
Talk show host KrisAnne Hall calls them badge wearing tax collectors.
This sounds like something having to do with public land use and conservation. I have to, however reluctantly, allow for such a thing to be banned, whatever the actual wisdom of it.
What is far worse is Wickardesque philosophy that would say they couldn’t dig ginseng on their own farms out of season.
It’s for the dhildren.......
Why am I reminded of the song “Alice’s Restaurant”?
What are you in for, kid?
“Ginseng digging”
WTH does this law even exist? Like so many laws they make little to no sense.
Lobbying by Big Ginseng
Now the police can destroy the rare roots, causing a rise in demand, causing more of the rare roots to be dug to replace what the police destroyed to protect the rare roots.
It’s like fishing laws.If there were none,it would be gone already, instead of being able to reproduce itself.
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