9/11 Drives Pot-Growing Deep Into America, Factory Farming Follows
Crackdowns on the southern border of the United States post-9/11 catalyzed a bloom in marijuana growing within America’s borders, Mexican drug cartels, the AP reports. This blowback from post 9-11 xenophobia has led to the “most intensely polluted pockets of wilderness in America”.
Way to go, team.
According to the AP, eradication forces discovered 700 grow sites on California’s U.S. Forest Service land alone in 2007 and 2008. They were soaked and sprinkled with weed and bug sprays and growth hormones. The farms featured diverted streams, miles of PVC pipes, rat poison, and the carcasses of poached deer and bears.
So basically, it looks like a normal day’s work at a legitimate American factory farm. Ron Pughof the U.S. Forest Service tells the AP the situation is an “unprecedented commercial enterprise conducted by armed foreign nationals. It is a huge mess.”
“Last year, law enforcement agents uprooted nearly five million plants in California, nearly a half million in Kentucky and 276,000 in Washington state as the development of hybrid plants has expanded the range of climates marijuana can tolerate.”
“As of Sept. 2, more than 2.2 million plants had been uprooted statewide. The largest single bust this year nationwide netted 482,000 plants in the remote Sierra of Tulare County, the forest service said.”
And that’s just a fraction of what is out there. This is why thedopereport only buys local, organic and sustainable.
