Posted on 09/17/2021 11:37:58 AM PDT by Olog-hai
Jack Dwyer pursued a dream of getting back to the land by moving in 1972 to an idyllic, tree-studded parcel in Oregon with a creek running through it.
“We were going to grow our own food. We were going to live righteously. We were going to grow organic,” Dwyer said. Over the decades that followed, he and his family did just that.
But now, Deer Creek has run dry after several illegal marijuana grows cropped up in the neighborhood last spring, stealing water from both the stream and nearby aquifers and throwing Dwyer’s future in doubt.
From dusty towns to forests in the U.S. West, illegal marijuana growers are taking water in uncontrolled amounts when there often isn’t enough to go around for even licensed users. Conflicts about water have long existed, but illegal marijuana farms — which proliferate despite legalization in many Western states — are adding strain during a severe drought. […]
Some jurisdictions are fighting back. California’s Siskiyou County Board of Supervisors in May banned trucks carrying 100 gallons or more of water from using roads leading to arid tracts where some 2,000 illegal marijuana grows were purportedly using millions of gallons of water daily. …
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Gosh. If they legalized it, this wouldn’t happen ...
Life ain’t easy.
“Legalizing marijuana will end all these problems.”
How many times did we hear that from the potheads?
But Dude!
I really neeeeeedd it!
In all of California there MAY be a few thousand acres of pot grown.
Compared to over 10 million acres under tillage.
One of the first things that has to be addressed is, who’s doing the growing?
The border crisis is not just at the border .... https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/the-border-crisis-is-not-just-at-the-border/ar-AAKjgSz
The law of unintended consequences.
The EPA only goes after the easy targets.
“Stealing water” from a creek? Don’t they have just as much right to the water as he does?
Water rights is a VERY complex topic in most states.
Many battles (legal and physical) have been fought over water rights.
I know this because I pump water out of a creek for ag here in Indiana.
It’s just medicine.
“Whisky is for drinking. Water is for fighting over.” - Mark Twain
Apparently the real source of that quote was a secretary of the South Dakota Department of Water and Natural Resources named Warren “Bob” Neufeld.
And there’s a lot of unintended consequences
And there’s also that.
Well they are growing organic MJ ... so what is the beef.
Years ago, in Oregon, National and State parks were warning tourists not to wander off trails because they might get killed by foreign mj growers.
Way to go, just let them stay and kill tourists. No biggie.
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