Posted on 11/16/2014 6:06:52 AM PST by dennisw
CLAM LAKE — The war on drugs has a new battleground and it’s deep in the heart of Wisconsin’s great northwoods. Drug traffickers with ties to Mexican cartels are setting up shop in our state and national forests. FOX6 Investigators got an exclusive invitation to see what’s left of one massive pot farm near Clam Lake.
In just the past four years, state agents have wiped out more than $70 million worth of marijuana grown on the same public lands where people go to hunt, hike and camp – and that’s just what they’ve found. Drug traffickers are setting up shop in Wisconsin’s forests and even pro-marijuana groups say they’re destroying the environment.
About 30 miles from Lake Superior, where the locals build monuments to muskie and early spring warm spells are interrupted by the occasional snowstorm, a team of state and federal agents recently led the FOX6 Investigators on a 30-minute hike into the Chequamegon National Forest, just south of Clam Lake.
It’s a path to what was once a well-hidden marijuana farm.
There is no large field, but a series of small sites scattered throughout the forest to make
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Add Oregon, too. If we really wanted to get rid of the cartels, we’d be raiding these mj farms. But, no, amnesty is coming.
So if a drug, like alcohol, is legal, would the country be better off without those that drink it and have their minds altered?
Absolutely. Getting high or drunk is unhealthy and causes too many problems. Violence, social problems, etc.
This country would be so much better off without that type of behavior, regardless of legality or not.
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This country would be so much better off without that type of behavior, regardless of legality or not.
Prohibition taught us what the War on Pot is currently teaching us: trying to eliminate that type of behavior through criminalization has limited effect, and enriches criminals.
Prohibition taught us what the War on Pot is currently teaching us: trying to eliminate that type of behavior through criminalization has limited effect, and enriches criminals.
We’d still be better off without all of those losers in our society.
We’d still be better off without all of those losers in our society.
We'll have to look somewhere else than government and law to make that happen.
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