[immadashell]

The state could use the revenue from a crop like this and a crop it is all the side discussions aside, it’s also obvious there are foreign markets hungry for it.

Follow the money trail. What's the possibility that state bureaucrats are taking a percentage to keep quiet? The operation is so widespread and nobody knows about it?

[AuntB]

“Follow the money trail. What’s the possibility that state bureaucrats are taking a percentage to keep quiet? The operation is so widespread and nobody knows about it? “

Bingo!

[Red Boots]

ZWhat's the possibility that state bureaucrats are taking a percentage to keep quiet?

Quite high, I'll bet.

Do you recall those horrible murders a year or two back, I think in New Jersey, where the four black teens were hacked to death by M-13 ( a drug running gang?). At the time, I though it was weird how the black mayor of Newark, instead of being horrified and calling for eradication of M-13, instead called for calm and an end to violence against Hispanics. He basically blew the whole thing off. I thought then that the politician buy off was probably a lot bigger than we think. And I still do.