A wilderness overgrown with dope and danger

[rich]

one thing that concerns me is that these "camps" are run by the mexican drug
cartels (or so we're told) who we all know can be pretty nasty folks to deal
with. Of course, if our gov't got its head out of its ass and enacted some
sort of sane policy w/r/t pot, the drug cartels would lose most of its
business in weed at least.
myabe i'm naive but i'm thinking the goofy growers as defined by Pynchon and
e.g. TC Boyle in Budding Prospects in their novels have been
replaced/co-opted/transformed into some serious bad shit.
 Rich

 On 9/28/05, Carvill John <johncarvill at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> I see my previous Vineland-related post disappeared down a gap in the
> cattle
> grid of the list's collective consciousness!
>
> Anyway, interesting article in today's Guardian on the still-going-strong
> CAMP in California.
>
>
> The war on a botanical species continues, complete with neo Brock Vonds
> helicoptering in.
>
> "I can't have my name or face showing up in any press," says a park ranger
> as he pulls a balaclava over his camouflaged face. "I have people gunning
> for me, and I'm going after their plants. One thousand plants is a million
> bucks."
>
>
> "We have a lot of dope coming out of this mountain today," says Lieutenant
> Marsh Carter from the Tulare county sheriff's department. "Right now it's
> a
> race against time. Who's going to get the dope off the mountain first, us
> or
> them?"
>
> http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,1579768,00.html
>
>
>
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