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Plant siezures set county-wide record, mirror statewide trend
Los Angeles Times | 9/11/2005

Sonoma County narcotics agents have recovered a bumper crop of marijuana plants so far this year, mirroring a statewide trend that officials attribute to increased investment by Mexican drug cartels.

The 102,000 plants destroyed in Sonoma County — five times as many as were uprooted in all of 2004 — sets a record for seizures, according to the Sheriff's Department. About half of them came from two clandestine pot farms found in the Austin Creek State Recreation Area in July.

"Somebody's planting a lot of marijuana out there, and it's not local people just growing it for personal use," said Michael Johnson of the state's Campaign Against Marijuana Planting.

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God's Creation

Just think of what happened in Sonoma happened across the entire U.S. where there is fertile ground to grow MJ. What if it was 102,000,000,000,000 plants U.S. wide.

Then what?

Kind of like prohibition times maybe??
Too much to handle so legalize it, tax it, control it??

If it is the Mexican drug lords or cartels planting the marijuana in the U.S. It's the U.S. governments fault for lack of border control.

ChronicSmoke7

In Humbolt they confinscated more in one operation then all of last year, and ive seen other articles saying the same things in texas
its seems more and more crops are planted this year because so many where confinscated last year, give the cops something to catch and they will leave the rest alone

Buzzby

There would be .967 marijuana plants per square foot of land in the United States. It would be kind of crowded.

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God's Creation

It would be just the same as if the entire land surface of the earth was covered with vegetative growth; and it was at one time (land surface).

No tall buildings, no refineries, no pollution. Only marijuana plants growing from horizon to horizon. The vivid colors of green, purple, white glistening in the sun and glowing at night. Everything man would ever need to survive is in marijuana. Clothes, shelters, fuel. You eat it if you absolutely had to. And the plant produces oxygen.

What else would a person want?? Definitely not what I mentioned.............

 

Tokamak

I've lived in Tulare county, CA, all my life, which regular readers of this site will know is home to tons (literally) of seized plants every year. That said, I really don't buy all the talk about Mexican drug cartels growing most of the pot in Cali. Every dealer I've ever met who knows his source says its home grown, by Americans for Americans. I've even had aquaintances who had large grow operations in the backwoods of our local National Parks (they were environmentally friendly, not the biohazards that the press makes them out to be). To me, the whole premise just smacks of propaganda: the sentiment that "its those damn illegal foreigners and their mercenary gangs bringing all the drugs into our law-abiding community" plays on the racial undertones that have always been prevalent in the drug war and, sadly, continue to be prevalent in the rural agricultural society of Central California and the rest of the country. Lets not forget the racist motivation for the prohibition of pot in the first place. It may not be as apparent anymore, but articles like this really make me wonder if it still isn't a main driving force.

Peace.

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God's Creation

What could this article possibly have to do with racism?

I thought this was a discussion pertaining to marijuana...................

Tokamak

God's Creation:
"What could this article possibly have to do with racism?"

I was refering to the fact that the article credits "Mexican drug cartels" as being behind the major grow-ops in California. More specifically, the quote:

""Somebody's planting a lot of marijuana out there, and it's not local people just growing it for personal use," said Michael Johnson of the state's Campaign Against Marijuana Planting."

I'm saying IT IS local people doing the growing. I'm saying that blaming the Mexicans carries the same racist undertones that led to prohibition.
Watch "Grass" if you don't know what I'm talking about.

Peace.