I’m saying pot growers. Anybody who has ever been in the woods of Northern California knows that the most dangerous place in the world is somebody’s marijuana plantation. A lot of them are run by outlaw biker gangs, and others are run by crazy free-lance criminals who shouldn’t even be out of jail.
I had a friend who was a state policeman and he didn’t even dare to go up there unaccompanied for routine police business. I would assume this forest in Kentucky is the same. It’s probably in a remote area where the only law enforcement is either the sheriffs or the state police (meaning they don’t come by very often) and this poor guy just turned up in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Even down this way there's a lot of this in NGA -- also in the national forests. Law enforcement there is spotty, the sheriff has enough to tend to where people actually LIVE. And they don't go up there unless they go in force.
This poor fellow was just in the wrong place at the wrong time.
They spend far too much time going after pot when they could be going after murderers, and thieves. The best way to kill organized crime is to end the drug war. Legalize it, make the age 18 and tax it, jobs could be created growing it and selling it. We could have businesses instead of murderous dealers sell it and card for it. Hemp also makes sturdier clothing material than cotton and hemp oil can be used as a source of energy. It could also compete with BigPharma and through competition bring prices down by offering an alternative. Pot is no different than alcohol in moderation.