VL-IV 1: L'amour est un oiseau rebelle [plain text]

[Robin Landseadel]

Claiming "National" ownership of a drug cartel is a smoke-screen.
That said, the claim is that mexican drug cartels are responsible
for much [if not most] of the trade in weed, least 'round these parts.
My understanding is that much ecological damage in national parks
as large marijuana plantations rise in the redwoods.
This San Francisco Chronicle article is from 2005:

(11-18) 04:00 PST Washington -- Hikers in national parks such as  
Yosemite and Sequoia-Kings Canyon are encountering a danger more  
hazardous than bears: illegal marijuana farms run by Mexican drug  
cartels and protected by booby traps and guards carrying AK-47s.

National Park Service officials testified in Congress on Thursday that  
illegal drug production in national parks, forests and other federal  
lands had grown into a multibillion-dollar business in recent years --  
mostly concentrated in California.
"These activities threaten our employees, visitors and our mission of  
protecting some of the nation's most prized natural and cultural  
resources," Karen Taylor-Goodrich, the National Park Service's  
associate director for visitor and resource protection, told the House  
Resources Subcommittee on National Parks.

Last year, National Park Service officers seized about 60,000  
marijuana plants, with an estimated street value of $240 million, from  
parks in California. About 44,000 pot plants were removed from Sequoia  
National Park near California's Central Valley. Another 10,000 plants  
were seized in Yosemite National Park.

The Park Service also has found pot farms and other drug trafficking  
activities in the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area and  
the Whiskeytown National Recreation Area in Shasta County as well as  
two Bay Area parks: the Golden Gate National Recreation Area and Point  
Reyes National Seashore. . .

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/11/18/MNG9TFQH8Q1.DTL

A bunch of "hopped up kids" messin' with the wife of the narc:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zGZRFSzoO4

On Dec 8, 2008, at 6:23 AM, Henry wrote:

> A lot of pot comes across the border from Mexico.  Does anyone know if
> Hispanics have been as active as hippies and some plain old thugs in  
> growing
> the stuff in California?