.And to Narco Supplied Chain-Stores!
http://americablog.com/2013/02/marijuana-farming-deforestation-northern-california-video.html
"....Actually we don't give a fuck!" new ending to the song."should have already known that! Not in my Twat!"
'He said pot farmers believe they are being unfairly blamed for killing endangered salmon while decades of timber cutting and overfishing are the real culprits.
However, the environmental damage has led to a split in the marijuana growing community.
One business, the Tea House Collective in Humboldt County, offers medicinal pot to people with prescriptions that it says is farmed by "small scale, environmentally conscious producers."
"Patients who cannot grow their own medicine can rely on our farmers to provide them with the best holistic medicine that is naturally grown, sustainable and forever Humboldt," the group's website advertises.
Despite efforts of some pot farmers to clean things up, the increased water use by farms is a "full-scale environmental disaster," said Fish and Wildlife Lt. John Nores, who leads the agency's Marijuana Enforcement Team.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/06/01/medical-marijuana-farms_n_5427374.html
"Profit$ before people Now!"
"..California prides itself on feeding America.
It also has the dubious distinction of being America’s biggest dope supplier.
Approximately 75 percent of the marijuana sold in the U.S. is grown in California — not Mexico, according to Sgt. Mike Horne of the Ventura County (Calif.) Sheriff's Department narcotics bureau. Horne heads a six-man commando-like unit that uses helicopters and rugged all-terrain vehicles to search and destroy marijuana growing operations in the national forest of his county....'
'...Michelle Le Strange, UCCE farm advisor in Tulare County and immediate past president of CWSS, said she has been warned by county officials and law enforcement officers that she should be alert in driving a county vehicle in rural areas because marijuana plantation tenders might think she is a law enforcement officer, and she could be in danger.
Horne said Le Strange and any government officials driving vehicles with government plates should be concerned because these marijuana plantations are operated by Mexican drug cartels, the same lawless gangs who are responsible for thousands of murders each year in Mexico. These cartels actually scour the U.S. Forrest Service lands in search of ideal growing sites, often adjacent to running streams. The cartels stock these plantations with people, drip irrigation tubing and chemicals to farm the illegal weed.
Horne showed a video and photos of what his men have uncovered in the national forests. As expected, there were neatly planted marijuana rows with drip irrigation tubing, the same as used by farmers. More chilling to the CWSS audience were the photos of not only automatic weapons confiscated in a raid, but pictures of chemicals and fertilizers used in these growing operations. The logos of many very prominent agchem and fertilizer companies were clearly visible. There were also photos of agchem products manufactured in Mexico, brought in by the cartels. Horne said many of those chemicals are not legal in the U.S.
Le Strange pointed out that chemicals and fertilizers used in these growing operations could well find their way in to streams and lakes. The unsuspecting public is likely to put the blame on agriculture for any contamination ...'
http://westernfarmpress.com/government/california-s-growing-marijuana-business-impacting-agriculture
'...severe drought in California that has led the governor to declare a state of emergency.
Farmers who may have to forgo planting seasonal crops because of the lack of water are even angrier at marijuana growers. But, said Ryan Jacobsen, executive director of the Fresno County Farm Bureau, “The biggest issue is the crime that comes from these grows."
Marijuana grows have been found near schools here and in nearby Madera County. In the fall, an illegal operation that extracted THC, the main mind-altering ingredient in marijuana, blew up in Fresno’s hip Tower District. One man suffered severe burns. A 16-year-old who had tried to steal weed from a field was shot and killed by armed guards. The body was found weeks later, buried in an orange orchard. Some marijuana farms have even put up gun turrets to protect their crop.
These new neighbors are especially threatening to farmers who live next door to them. “I noticed cars were coming and going through my property, and I’d have 20, 30 cars driving through my yard,” Schmall said.
He saw license plates from at least 20 states stretching from the Northwest to the East Coast. He put up a gate to keep traffic out, and four times, cars drove right through it.
During harvest, the Schmalls can’t keep windows open because of the powerful smell. The growers next door put up makeshift shanties at different corners of the marijuana grow for armed guards. The guards cook there, shower in the open and leave trash in the fields.
Health code violations aside, Schmall heard shots fired in the middle of the night, and he worries that his wife and kids could end up in the path of stray bullets. “When it’s next door, it affects your family’s safety,” he said.
Ben Wagner, U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of California, said the Central Valley has become the nation’s main source for domestically produced marijuana. “Organized crime is connected to that,” he said. “A lot of growers down on the valley floor are taking advantage of what they perceive as lax enforcement from local law enforcement.”
After all, the challenges are huge and the resources limited for many local sheriffs’ departments, and the profits that growers stand to make entice them to take chances. ...'
"...California Department of Fish and Wildlife are warning that streams harboring endangered salmon and steelhead could go dry because of the heavy water consumption by marijuana growers.
During the growing season, California “pot farms” consume 60 million gallons of water a day. That equals 50% more than is consumed by the entire city of San Francisco.
With 79% of California now in “extreme drought” conditions, state rangers and local law enforcement are promising a crackdown on California’s $3.9 billion annual marijuana crop.
Proposition 215 was passed in 1996 to amend the California Health and Safety Code to permit personal use of medical marijuana. Since then, officials have recorded more and more streams going dry. According to the AP, “State fish and wildlife officials say much of the marijuana being grown in northern counties under the state’s medical pot law is not being used for legal, personal use, but for sale both in California and states where pot is still illegal.”
Two men were arrested were arrested last week at a Santa Cruz County pot farm that state authorities said used diverted stream water and threatened steelhead trout and endangered Central Coast Coho salmon. The raid netted 180 mature marijuana plants from a 6-acre property said California Fish and Wildlife spokesman Andrew Hughan.
An anonymous tip led Fish and Wildlife officials to the sophisticated operation where it is believed that hundreds of thousands of gallons of water had been illegally redirected...'
Is Santa Muerte the goddess Mot of drought and ...death? ie Mot-Pot.
