Posted on 10/29/2020 1:12:50 PM PDT by artichokegrower
The boy knew how his mother made a living. He also knew the danger inherent in it.
As recently as two months ago, he had stayed at a property in Aguanga, a small community in rural Riverside County, where his mother, helped by recent immigrants from Laos, grew marijuana.
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They will grow inside a rental home for a few years, then abandon it. By that time, Shannon said, the house is all but ruined by the humidity, which breeds mold, and the reek of marijuana, which seeps into the drywall.
Mexican drug trafficking groups, Shannon said, oversee the largest cultivation sites in the Inland Empire — fields that are carved out of public forest land, tended by low-paid laborers, irrigated with water siphoned from public sources and doused in illegal pesticides that can poison groundwater. A bonus of growing marijuana on public land, he added, is that if the operators are prosecuted and their property subject to forfeiture, the government cannot seize the land because it already owns it.
The third group in the Inland Empire are Laotian growers, Shannon said. Concentrated in the Anza Valley, they typically raise their crop in plywood sheds and grow houses erected on private land.
Welcome to the sanctuary state of California
Pot....the victimless crime.....riiiight
Just doing the jobs American drug dealers don’t want to do.
Lie down with dogs ...
And dems want to decriminalize ALL drugs???????
As recently as two months ago, he had stayed at a property in Aguanga, a small community in rural Riverside County, where his mother, helped by recent illegal immigrants from Laos, grew marijuana.
Yeah, decriminalize drugs and CRIMINALIZE guns.....that makes a lot of sense.
My FIL lived in Aguanga..for a time.
If they stayed in Laos, they would be alive today.
I was in the USAF at a time when I was one of the few who wasn't a pothead.
Other than the smell, I never saw it have adverse effects on anyone except getting the munchies and forgetting things.
It mellowed out some folks who became very violent when drinking alcohol.
I am overall, very conservative, which is one reason why I am so much for legalization.
I am sick and tired of our tax money being wasted investigating, prosecuting and jailing potheads.
Conservatives are supposed to be for freedom and limited government.
Here's a chance to prove it.
“Dreamers” grown up is my diagnosis.
In a sane country the Army would clean up these lawless groups.
Poisoning our people and the land, and just think of how much CO2 these operations are causing.
Obviously not part of the festivities in Laos when Vang Pao was trying to hold back the Communist hordes, or they would have been prepared with copious weapons and ammo.
Well Duh .... it is legal and the illegal places and crime still exist.
Welcome to the sanctuary state of California!
This stuff has been going on for at least 40 years in N. California.
3+ decades ago, I belonged a hunting and fishing club in N. California. Our sons were still in high school, and I lucked out and got deer hunting reservations at a premium ranch just off/on hiway 1 south of Gualala.
I went up ahead of my sons on a Friday before opening season to stake out our tents. They were to join me that evening. I
pulled into the parking lot/checkin stand by the owner’s barn.
He was in the middle of deputies from 2 counties and what appeared to be National Guard guys in battle gear. The rancher/owner came over to talk to me. I started to get out, and he told me to stay in as I would be leaving.
Then, I hear fully auto rifle shots being fired about a mile or so away. He said, there was a pot war going on that was out of hand. He told me to leave for my safety.
I explained that my sons would be driving up after school. This was before Cell Phones. He got their names and the high school they would be at and my wife’s work number. His wife made contact and our sons just came home.
Apparently, there were Chicoms, Russian and Mexican gangs in basically full metal battle over MJ fields and the pot harvest.
This never made the newspapers and the ranchers never talked about it.
My wife and I were talking to a Colorado State Park Ranger. He told us the story of how his friend, who owned a dispensary near the Durango area, was murdered by the Mexican Cartel. According to the park ranger, the cartel members came into his dispensary, said, “close down” — he didn’t and he was suddenly dead.
The growers who were killed were all from Laos. Who knows who the killers were, but I bet they were also from out of the country.
Diversity. Isn’t it wonderful?
Sounds like Laotian organized crime dispute
If one reads the article.....a freeper non tradition
One will read the mom had cut off some former Laotian biz partners
Kali has truly huge grows some legal some non permitted
I haven’t seen violence personally there and I’d say I’m pretty experienced
25 years ago Humboldt and Trinity counties had violence towards robbers and we have heard of Mexican gangs infiltrating but I’ve never seen anything like this one
I’ve witnessed grows in Carpenteria and downtown LA that dwarf this one
1500-3000 gavida double ended lights or 120 acre green house under roof light dep ops
Tons per pull
This was something Laos OC related
And nobody will talk
They are like Albanians or Chechnyans
You don’t cooperate
My buddy was a “cleaner” at a grow in Humbolt a few years ago. They went to visit a neighbor grow operation and everyone in the house was dead. They beat feet and not a word was said, total news blackout. He decided VT was much safer.
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