Mexican drug cartels operating marijuana farms in northern California

John | August 1, 2013 | 0 Comments

For years, Mexican drug cartels have been operating growing operations in remote areas of California. In 2009, Time Magazine reported that a fire that burned 84,000 acres was started by a cook fire at a cartel marijuana farm. At the time, California Bureau of Narcotics Enforcement stated:

"We won’t be able to find as many of the drug growers." Several days after a bust, the cartels often return to the same area to re-plant their giant pot gardens. A single cartel, she says, will send its workers into parkland to plant up to seven fields of fields of marijuana, covering dozens of acres, spread out over the canyons and ridges, each with more than 20,000 plants. "It’s an epidemic," she says.

Since that time, things have not gotten better. It is being reported that the growth of marijuana in California (through legal and illegal sources) is a $14 billion industry. Bulldozers are being used to clear land for the illegal farms, creeks are being diverted to water the farms, and wildlife that would damage the crops are being poisoned. Now it is being reported that attempts to charge growers under federal and state clean water regulations have been rejected because the agencies decided enforcement would have been too dangerous to their staff. According to Butte County Supervisor Chairman Bill Connelly:

“My concern is that legitimate business people get harassed (by the agency), but illegal people will not be harassed because they get a pass,” he said. “They go after the timber industry and farmers.”

Putting environmental concerns aside, isn’t this an invasion of the United States by a foreign entity? There have been reports that Fast and Furious was actually a way to arm one cartel in order to get information to take down the other cartels. Is that cartel also being allowed to grow billions in marijuana in California without fear of federal intervention?

Source: http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1917547,00.html
http://www.theepochtimes.com/n3/222161-californias-pot-farms-a-growing-environmental-disaster/

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