Wow that was a lot of pot

I just read in our local paper out here that in one of the local forests where I normally go out and hike and camp in that they just found a pot farm and destroyed 91,000 marijuana plants with a street value of over $225 million! Heck this was not far away from where my fiances brother and his family live and where we have gone hiking with his little kids before. Apparently there are also six guys that they arrested on site that were of course all armed, and all were Mexican nationals. They are now working on the clean up of the site and the forest service is working on hauling out all the materials from the camp. Warnings have been issued locally about continued growth of pot farms in the forests around the area and the dangers of running into growers or potential booby traps. I actually heard from a law enforcement friend that one farm that was found a year or two ago was actually booby trapped with claymore mines .

And people wonder why I don't go into the woods without a rifle and hand gun out here. Granted most folks around these parts do the same, when asked why they are carrying in the woods the answer is always for "cougar".

http://www.lagrandeobserver.com/News/Local-News/Cops-uproot-huge-pot-operation

From what I've read that's the trend.

I know Cougars are aggressive, but do you really need a gun to stop them?

MrJoshua wrote: I know Cougars are aggressive, but do you really need a gun to stop them?

I discharge a different kind of load at those cougars.

wrong kinda cougar though those can be scary as well.

Sounds a lot like Ocala National Forest in central Florida. Warning signs in stores to stay away from grow sites, genetically engineered plants from Florida State biology students. Don't know about booby traps, but it's been a few years since I've been camping there. They called the product Gainesville Green.

It also sounds like they exaggerated a bit there. "Street price" is based on an optimistic fictional number to make a pot bust sound like a significant win in the "war on drugs". If you legalize it, operations like this will pretty much go away because you can grow it out in the open as you please. Let the stoners have their pot and they'll go away. They're the only group that seems like they have the motivation to get out and do something about it, ironically.

That's a lot of dope.

Drugs are bad mmmkay?

Tell that to this woman:

Then again, no one ACTUALLY gets away with as much crap as she does.

Wow, 2+1/2 grand per plant. Those are some remarkably valuable plants.

Not.

Probably weighed the dirt-filled root ball with the plant itself.

Street value of drug busts are sometimes calculated by breaking it down to the 'loose joint' level and the $225M still seems exaggerated.

Still, 91,000 plants ain't no backyard garden.

If only Ron Paul and Barney Frank's bill to legalize at the Federal level had a chance of passing.

The War on Drugs is an abysmal, resource sucking failure. It's hard for me to advocate legalizing the nasty stuff like cocaine/heroin/LSD/meth/etc, but MJ prohibition is absolutely a failure.

It's basically legal here (Colorado). Other then dispensaries on every corner no real other problems.

MrJoshua wrote: I know Cougars are aggressive, but do you really need a gun to stop them?

to the cougar on the right: i applaud the effort but not the execution. i though fake toobs were supposed to be installed up where 19-year-old toobs reside, not down at elbow level where the OE toobs were pre-surgery.

EDIT: i hope this pic didn't come from the "is your wife hot" thread. and i hope we never have a thread like that again. let's keep it in the third person!

z31maniac wrote: If only Ron Paul and Barney Frank's bill to legalize at the Federal level had a chance of passing.

But think of the children!

More like $45M, but still, nice haul.

Let me know if they plan to burn it off!

ppddppdd wrote: More like $45M, but still, nice haul. Let me know if they plan to burn it off!

Probably in small batches, over quite some time, near a Frito Lay factory...

Apparently it was some hunters that found the location and noticed something was odd when they saw terraces built into the canyon they were in. That was back a few months ago and they let the police know who kept an eye on the spot to see if it was still in use and it was. They were getting things set back up for this years crop. Makes you wonder how long they were using that location.

Can we stick with the thread tangent? I'd rather discuss it than the potential tax revenues of legal pot.

Some singing Cougar?

A cougar probably quite familiar with the subject....

I have sad memories from 20 years ago of watching a tri axle dump trailer pull up an on ramp of I-95 in downtown Miami. 4 cop cars in front, 4 in back, all lights on. From my vantage point I could see the trailer was FILLED with bales of pot, headed to the county incinerator. Lots of tears in Miami that night.

Cougar cubed.