Re: Toxic Waste From California Pot Farms FINALLY! Alarms Experts!
Posted: 11-24-2017 10:36 AM
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My take: Can we blame the northern California migrations of illegals from south of the border, for taking jobs young American's won't do in the "field$ of pot"
"Rural California grapples with 'green rush' of pot growers"
PAUL ELIAS, Associated Press • November 24, 2017
COPPEROPOLIS, Calif. (AP) — The four young men had just started their marijuana harvest in rural Northern California when a dozen sheriff's deputies swooped in with guns drawn, arrested them and spent the day chopping down 150 bushy plants with machetes.
"I could do this every day if I had the personnel," Calaveras County Sheriff Rick DiBasilio said during the operation near the Sierra foothills town of Copperopolis, about two hours east of San Francisco. Authorities this year have cut down close to 30,000 plants grown without permits in a county that is reconsidering its embrace of marijuana cultivation on the eve of statewide legalization.
"There are just so many of them," the sheriff said of the illegal farms. "It's never-ending."
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Law enforcement officials say they have raided farms where they've found pesticides that are banned in the U.S.
"It has changed our way of life," said Bill McManus, head of an organization seeking to ban marijuana in Calaveras County. "The environmental impacts are atrocious."
It's from me again> So let's all say a heart felt prayer for the soil and water environments of central and northern California. Where Mother Earth has already gone and will continue to go, to pot
(BS)
FULL STORY
https://www.yahoo.com/news/rural-califo ... 23140.html
MK II
My take: Can we blame the northern California migrations of illegals from south of the border, for taking jobs young American's won't do in the "field$ of pot"
"Rural California grapples with 'green rush' of pot growers"
PAUL ELIAS, Associated Press • November 24, 2017
COPPEROPOLIS, Calif. (AP) — The four young men had just started their marijuana harvest in rural Northern California when a dozen sheriff's deputies swooped in with guns drawn, arrested them and spent the day chopping down 150 bushy plants with machetes.
"I could do this every day if I had the personnel," Calaveras County Sheriff Rick DiBasilio said during the operation near the Sierra foothills town of Copperopolis, about two hours east of San Francisco. Authorities this year have cut down close to 30,000 plants grown without permits in a county that is reconsidering its embrace of marijuana cultivation on the eve of statewide legalization.
"There are just so many of them," the sheriff said of the illegal farms. "It's never-ending."
Read further down the page............
Law enforcement officials say they have raided farms where they've found pesticides that are banned in the U.S.
"It has changed our way of life," said Bill McManus, head of an organization seeking to ban marijuana in Calaveras County. "The environmental impacts are atrocious."
It's from me again> So let's all say a heart felt prayer for the soil and water environments of central and northern California. Where Mother Earth has already gone and will continue to go, to pot
(BS)
FULL STORY
https://www.yahoo.com/news/rural-califo ... 23140.html
MK II