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Illegal Pot Invades California’s Deserts, Bringing Violence, Fear and Ecological Destruction
Bakersfield/Los Angeles Times ^ | Jul 15, 2021 | Jaclyn Cosgrove and Louis Sahagún

Posted on 07/15/2021 12:10:32 PM PDT by nickcarraway

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1 posted on 07/15/2021 12:10:32 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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>>this hot, dry, unforgiving climate has attracted more than a thousand marijuana plantations that fill the arid expanse between the Antelope Valley and the Colorado River.

Would the product grown in Wine Country or possibly Cuba be better? Does soil and climate matter?


2 posted on 07/15/2021 12:13:43 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Lean on Joe Biden to follow Donald Trump's example and donate his annual salary to charity.)
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I think the kids say “whomp whomp” for this level of irony.

States thought they would eliminate crime and make a ton of $ by legalizing and taxing mj.

But then they taxed and tamed it so much a black (criminal) market immediately emerged with the good stuff at 1/2 retail or less.

As ANYONE with a modicum of common sense (no economic degree needed) could have told them would happen.


3 posted on 07/15/2021 12:13:58 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (The democrats have just replaced KKK with CRT. /Kevin McCarty 7/6/21)
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A: it’s legal, B. Unless there’s an International market, who would give up their skunk buds for shake?


4 posted on 07/15/2021 12:15:10 PM PDT by gr8eman (A man who only talks business is a failure in all aspects of life- Camino Del Rio)
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5 posted on 07/15/2021 12:15:36 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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so they can prosecute tax crime now?


6 posted on 07/15/2021 12:15:46 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Lean on Joe Biden to follow Donald Trump's example and donate his annual salary to charity.)
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Legalize it... not quasi-legalize it with high fees and crony distributor arrangements... and a lot of these problems will go away.

The reason these illegal growers can undercut the quasi-legal market is that so many taxes and regulations are layered on the “legal” market that the product is too expensive relative to the costs of production.


7 posted on 07/15/2021 12:15:53 PM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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Predictable consequences. The pro-pot advocates and industry didn’t care. It’s all about the money and there is more than enough of that to go around.


8 posted on 07/15/2021 12:17:12 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard (resist the narrative. .)
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To: null and void; aragorn; AZ .44 MAG; Baynative; bgill; bitt; Black Agnes; blueyon; Candor7; ...
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PING

9 posted on 07/15/2021 12:17:16 PM PDT by LucyT
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Lots of things can be grown in the desert. Just set up shade houses and add water.


10 posted on 07/15/2021 12:17:24 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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"It's legal"

Did you even read the FIRST line of the excerpt??? "...hundreds of black-market pot farms that have exploded across California’s high desert in the last several years"

11 posted on 07/15/2021 12:18:05 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“Criminal democrats kill babies, folks. Do you think anything else is a problem for them?” ~ joma89)
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12 posted on 07/15/2021 12:19:21 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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More than a thousand marijuana plantations in the Mojave? Drug agents know about this but do nothing? What are they using to water these “plantations”? The article is total bullcrap.


13 posted on 07/15/2021 12:20:12 PM PDT by dainbramaged (You'll get nothing and like it!)
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The best stuff is grown indoors in 100% environmentally controlled conditions, so the local climate is pretty immaterial.


14 posted on 07/15/2021 12:20:27 PM PDT by Boogieman
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In general, seems states are trying to create a state-run monopoly, but then find the black market still exists.


15 posted on 07/15/2021 12:21:17 PM PDT by PGR88
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>>so they can prosecute tax crime now?<<

According to the article they have not thought of that yet. The example was a guy who had a pretty good sized illegal mj crop who got a $500 citation and even that was lost in the system.

No downside and huge upside. Why be legit?


16 posted on 07/15/2021 12:25:35 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (The democrats have just replaced KKK with CRT. /Kevin McCarty 7/6/21)
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>>More than a thousand marijuana plantations in the Mojave? Drug agents know about this but do nothing?<<

It is a misdemeanor. No reason to waste resources on petty crime. And it appears to be the same if you grow 5 plants in your backyard/greenhouse or in a 1 acre field in the desert.

CA wanted this and now they got it.


17 posted on 07/15/2021 12:28:55 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (The democrats have just replaced KKK with CRT. /Kevin McCarty 7/6/21)
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If you want to tax and regulate the legal market out the wazoo, you have to at least spend enough of those tax revenues on enforcement to ensure that the legal market is the only game in town. Instead, CA spent it on drag queen story hours.
18 posted on 07/15/2021 12:31:44 PM PDT by NobleFree ("law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual")
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To: freedumb2003

I had a “discussion” with a pro-MJ freeper a couple of years ago. I forecasted this eventuality citing human behaviors etc... and received some flamers in the process.

How could anyone not see this coming?


19 posted on 07/15/2021 12:32:43 PM PDT by Clutch Martin (The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.)
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(title) : " Illegal Pot Invades California’s Deserts, Bringing Violence, Fear and Ecological Destruction "

And coming to your town, next !
This is only the early stage of the invasion...
Now, can you imagine the US without the right to provide for your own self-defense ?

20 posted on 07/15/2021 12:32:50 PM PDT by Tilted Irish Kilt
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