Marijuana is county's No. 2 'crop' [Tulare County, CA]

Visalia Times-Delta ^ | Thursday, October 30, 2003 | Percy Ednalino

[yonif]

If marijuana were legal, it would replace oranges as the second most valuable crop in Tulare County.

And if marijuana were legal, Tulare County also would lead the state in the plant's cultivation.

Figures released Wednesday from the state Attorney General's Office revealed more than a quarter of all marijuana plants seized in California this year have been found in Tulare County.

[billorites]

"If marijuana were legal, it would replace oranges as the second most valuable crop in Tulare County."

Pot will get you through times of no oranges better than oranges will get you through times of no pot.

Anyway, I think that's what my roomate said.

[Scenic Sounds]

I would have thought that Humboldt County would have been right up there near the top. Maybe they just quit looking for plants up there.

[Pearls Before Swine]

If marijuana were legal, it would replace oranges as the second most valuable crop in Tulare County.

Depends on how heavily it is taxed.

[coloradan]

However, if marijuana were a legal crop, its value would likely drop because the black market demand would change.

... which would reduce the number grown, because it wouldn't be so valuable anymore. In other words, the War On (some) Drugs fails in its mission.

[coloradan]

The War On (some) Drugs also endangers hikers, hunters, and campers, who might stumble on a pot plantation. For some reason, people aren't killed who stumble on vineyards or orange orchards - because these crops are legal and the growers don't have to protect their livelihood by killing witnesses.

[patriciaruth]

Hey, Tulare is the second largest agricultural county in the U.S. Of course we're going to be up there in production no matter what crop you're talkin'

I believe most of the MJ is grown in the national forests which comprise half our county.

Is that a federal or a local policing problem?

[patriciaruth]

Yeah, and if you stumble across a bomb-making operation rather than a legal arts and craft business, you'd be in danger, too.

However, I don't recommend making bomb-making legal.

[fire_eye]

Pot growers are parasite scum. Pothead libertarians love to claim that it's just the "profit motive" that inspires them, but the fact is that they're just too lazy and greedy (and/or stupid) to go get a real job.

Moreover, they've got no respect for human life and even less respect for private property.

I wonder what would happen if us common working stiffs started arming ourselves and roaming the woods at random with pot-sniffing dogs... goodness oh dear... There might be unspeakable tragedies.

(I'm pleasantly surprised to see that this article doesn't contain the usual subliminal leftist propaganda, e.g. "Busting pot gardens ruins the county's economy", and "If we just legalized pot the profit motive would be gone so the woods would be safe again", and "The growers would all become upstanding citizens if it weren't for the evil pot laws", and... etc...

[shempy]

I wonder what would happen if us common working stiffs started arming ourselves and roaming the woods at random with pot-sniffing dogs...

What are you waiting for, Elmer?

Your country needs you! Don't just wonder what would happen, go do it! There is a WAR to be WON!

Just be sure to watch out for wascally wabits

[A CA Guy]

According to state figures, 141,239 plants were seized in Tulare County.

Shasta County was second with 53,556 plant seizures -- less than half Tulare County's tally.

Mendocino County came in third with 45,263 seized plants.

Kern County was fourth with 31,212 marijuana seizures.

Seems a great start, hope they keep up the great work.

[A CA Guy]

Exactly, but don't expect your common sense to take hold of those hoping for their precious drugs (in the name of the Constitution of course).

[MistrX]

"Dope will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no dope." Freewheeling Franklin.

[Consort]

[marsh2]

I would bet we (Siskiyou) rival most counties for pot growers. The tree canopy is just so thick here that they are difficult to spot. Sheriff told me that they also haven't got the funding to use fixed wing a copters to find them.

We had several hunters find Mexican cartel operations. Sheriff took out tens of thousands of plants. Didn't even scratch the surface. No one arrested. Said he didn't have the personnel to try to arrest safely. I know he went out with his officers on a couple of them to save on overtime. He got poison oak and tore his uniform all to shreds in the bargain.

If you have ever visited our Salmon River area, it is like Humboldt County east. The Big Bear commune still exists....

[fire_eye]

What are you waiting for, Elmer?

Now wet me see... Wabbit season... Duck season...
DOPER season!!!!!!!!!!!

[PaxMacian]

271270 plants with rarely more than 100 plants per plot
means 2712 plots equals 7.5 plots per day for a year.
Average interdiction team size of 6 officers =
45 officers/day = salaries and benefits approaching
5 million dollars/year. And that doesn't include any
operation costs, just price helicopter support.
These guys ought to be protecting the border from invasion.

[PaxMacian]

An herb is not a bomb.
1 a bomb can be deadly - this herb is not.
2 a bomb is made by man - this herb is a gift from God.

"...declaring war against the natural rights of all mankind, and extirpating the defenders thereof from the face of the earth, is the concern of every man to whom nature hath given the power of feeling" Thomas Paine from 'Common Sense'

[Jim Cane]

I wonder what would happen if us common working stiffs started arming ourselves and roaming the woods at random with pot-sniffing dogs... goodness oh dear... There might be unspeakable tragedies.

I'll say. All these goobers with their dogs walking onto other people's property and getting barney thife wannabee butts mistaken for a deer. And it's not like you could even mount the head or anything. I mean, who wants to sit there next to thier fireplace enjoying a fine doobie and looking up at some bucktoothed nimrod's head on a plaque?

[PaxMacian]

'Farmer' is not a real job?
Guerilla growers are forced
by the WOH to use these tactics.
"Respect for private property"
Does the War On Drugs respect
private property? NO!!!!!!!!
Possessing, protecting or propagating
this gift from God will cause DEAmen
to steal citizen's property and
imprison them in anal rape camps.