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Yes, it's old news to people who live around it, but the rest of the country seems oblivious. Here's some more.
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The multibillion-dollar Mexican cartels have discovered it's safer and more profitable to grow marijuana in the United States than to try to smuggle it across the border, he said. Instead, they're often importing guards and handing them firearms with orders to shoot at anyone coming by.

They're also branching into methamphetamine production, often using what authorities have dubbed "super labs." And this summer authorities for the first time discovered 40,000 opium poppies growing in a remote area of the Sierra National Forest bordering Yosemite National Park. The poppy plants originated in Mexico, Drug Enforcement Administration spokesman Richard Meyer said Monday.

Three-fourths of the marijuana gardens discovered by California authorities this year were on public lands like state and national parks and forests. As recently as 2001, the majority of plants were seized from private land.

California's recent harvest season was one of the most violent in years.

In just one deadly week in September, law enforcement officials in Northern California fatally shot four armed guards protecting marijuana plantations. San Luis Obispo County sheriff's deputies were shot at as they entered a garden; a hunter walking near a marijuana grove in Los Padres National Forest was shot at by three men armed with automatic weapons, and guards tending a Ventura County garden shot at a backcountry hunter.

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"The multibillion-dollar Mexican cartels have discovered it's safer and more profitable to grow marijuana in the United States than to try to smuggle it across the border, he said. Instead, they're often importing guards and handing them firearms with orders to shoot at anyone coming by."

This will only get worse as border security tightens. Unless demand for marijuana decreases, which is unlikely, what we're going to see in the future is more and more domestic production, both outdoor and indoor grown. As they crack down on the outdoor grown, we'll see more and more indoor grown and average THC levels will rise accordingly. At least more of the money will stay here, but of course pot is dirt cheap in Mexico and lions share of the money that is made from pot is made here anyway. The problem is that most of the pot on the streets today is from Mexico and Mexicans control most of the wholesale distribution of it here in the states. A lot of them send much of their money back home to Mexico.