Posted on 10/20/2011 1:03:30 PM PDT by SwinneySwitch
A massive marijuana-growing operation uncovered in Liberty County may have links to a major drug cartel, authorities were told, but nobody's saying which one.
"The state and federal authorities do have some individuals they are possibly looking at," said Capt. Rex Evans, spokesman for the Liberty County Sheriff's Office. "They are in contact with folks in South Texas and south of the border. They say not to release any information (about cartels) at this time."
Investigators early Tuesday uncovered a sophisticated marijuana growing and cultivation operation at CR 2055 and CR 2050 in Liberty County, just outside Hardin. They pulled up 6,000 stalks of pot with an estimated street value of more than $4 million. It is the largest such operation seized in the county's history, Evans said.
The operation included an irrigation system almost the size of a football field, artificial lighting, exhaust system and air conditioning, as well as bunk-style housing, a kitchen, gymnasium and guard posts on the perimeter of the property.
Investigators also confiscated guns and other weapons throughout the 300-acre site.
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BATF?
The War On Drugs is a war on supply and demand. It’s time we wised up, as we did when we ended the Prohibition of the poisonous, addictive drug alcohol.
Why not just give up the drugs and stop causing all the death.
If there is no demand by murder causing idiots you’d need no supply.
Pot smokers are too high to think a about the people that harvest this crap.
Wonder what bug killer their using on maui wowi these days.
Gee, Thanks, Mainstream Media.
I was going to guess it had links to the Knights of Columbus.
A beautiful idea ... but many users of the drug alcohol failed to heed it during Prohibition, and many users of other drugs are failing to heed it today. The realistic policy response to these facts was and is to relegalize.
It doesn't mwttwr which one. If a link - ANYlink - can be established to one of the Mexican cartels, it is enough to substantiate our clamping down on the illegal immigration and legally or illegally, joining in on the war against the cartels and shutting them down.
Enough is enough, and THIS is TOO MUCH!!
The most realistic option for shutting them down is to take the artificially inflated profits out of their trade by relegalizing.
My guess is that it will probably soon be a federal crime to stop and walk around or attend to some mechanical problem.
Where have you been?
We have Prohibition of alcohol again, only this time, without a Constitutional amendment.
Don't wish for that!
Simple math. There are more pot smokers than legislators.
Your solution, like prohibition would be the greater good if hearts and minds were truly changed, and pot smokers gave the drug up en masse. However, it's not reasonable to assume that it is ever going to actually happen.
On the other hand, should it be legalized, Phillip Morris would put the cartels out of the pot business in short order. We'd still have pot smokers and all the problems that go with marijuana use, but it would be a devastating blow the black market and everything that goes with it.
But...and there is always a but...it is reasonable to assume that with legalization, consumption would increase. So the real question is: Is the greater threat more marijuana users or the money and power that the cartels derive from illegal marijuana production and distribution?
I wish people would stop wishin' for things. ☻
Medical Marijuana laws in CO have all but killed the Mexican pot trade here. Most of the illegals have picked up and left my town.
We should pass a law that for every Texan murdered by cartels, three open border elitists are killed in exchange.
We could quickly enforce it before the Supreme Court gets to decide. That would take out alot of “smart” traitors.
I do to, but not to the point that draconian laws are foisted on all of us because of a few plant smokers.
Also, marijuana doesn't just have to be about the THC. Industrially, its a great crop for many textiles.
Right now anyone who uses illegal drugs and does not grow or synthesize their own is complicit in every atrocity committed by the drug lords and peddlers.
But the government’s war on drugs is as ill-conceived as Prohibition. It prospers criminals and riddles our borders, and does little to keep drugs away from those who want them.
Right now, until there are serious prosecutions, every American is complicit in arming the Mexican drug cartels with AK-47s, Barret .50 BMGs and grenades and the hundreds of murders committed with them.
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