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Marijuana Eradication

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COMMENT 309425	2012-08-17 09:03 AM
Eradicate pot plants, before pot eradicates America.
COMMENT 309430	2012-08-17 09:10 AM
The biggest myth is that legalization will end these sort of illegal grows.
COMMENT 309436	2012-08-17 09:19 AM
The plants are pretty.
COMMENT 309445	2012-08-17 09:23 AM
WHAT!? No arrests!? It's obvious that our governments role in this is to protect their jobs. Arresting the growers would be too much paperwork. The growers will be back and our wonderful government will continue to have a job eradicating the "weed". What a joke! As far as we all know our government will probably sell this on the street too and enjoy themselves with the profits at some strip clubs while protecting our president. What fools are country has turned into.
COMMENT 309449P	2012-08-17 09:25 AM
I love the term "Mexican Nationals"
COMMENT 309450	2012-08-17 09:26 AM
We really need to legalize pot and most drugs. The human violence, the waste of financial and human resources and the incarciration of kids for small time dealing are horrible drags upon society. The enforement and incarciration obviously does NOT work. BUT, many lives are ruined every year as a direct result and little is gained. IF pot were legalized, users would grow it in the back yards. The huge mess and potential violence demonstrated in this press release would no longer occur. BIG industry and government pensions are the only beneficiaries of the current system.
COMMENT 309449P	2012-08-17 09:29 AM
@447 along with the hunting permit there can be restrictions like crab. No females and no young ones... Oh but that would backfire. We would end up with more procreation of this population that we don't need.... Ok nanny take it away!
COMMENT 309464	2012-08-17 09:42 AM
Those are some nice "mugs"... or nugs?
COMMENT 309468	2012-08-17 09:44 AM
430, legalization may not end them, but it would eliminate 99% of them. The reason they go through such great lengths is not to get caught. The part that pains me the most is the complete lack of regard for their destruction of the forest and the poaching. I have no patience for people who trash our only remaining natural areas. I'm really curious to see how things go when the DEA funding finally dries up, and they have no way of enforcing the stupid laws they so vehemently stand behind.
COMMENT 309470	2012-08-17 09:45 AM
There are people growing on the east side of Rocky Nook park--east of the stream--a block north of the playground. They work at night on Saturday around 11 pm. I've notified the park ranger. Another grow is taking place above Stevens Park -- not sure how far. A jeep 4MMD855 parks near the entrance to the park--frequently late on Saturday or Sunday night-- and the driver walks up through the park. I don't follow or confront these people, but I'm just saying that not all the activity is going on in the remote back country.
COMMENT 309474	2012-08-17 09:53 AM
I don't get why the enviros aren't all over this! Wait, I forgot, they're in bed with the Dems, who like legalization and think pot is organic and all that. I guess that's why the Sierra Club and EDC is mum on this topic. Much easier to sue the city for a few gallons of sewage and reap millions than to face the fact that pot smoking and pot users drive illegal grows that create terrible conditions in our public lands, ultimately.
COMMENT 309481	2012-08-17 10:04 AM
if colorado passes their pot bill this year without the state suffering a total breakdown in civilization and all the other imagined horrors that go along with that......then maybe there is hope for other states to follow. we came close the last time. 964..nugs indeed.
SHOREBIRD	2012-08-17 10:05 AM
- 430 Legalization would make something illegal? That's a scooby doo statement.
COMMENT 309490	2012-08-17 10:13 AM
Isn't POT great...? It's soo natural. It's really good for your lungs as it has a special tar that coats your lung tissue. The growers use special chemicals to make it grow in a natural way. The growers dispurse toxic chemicals that KILL any living creature that would try to eat any plants near the grow site (deer, raccoons, bear, coyote, rats, owls or any other inhabitants in the food chain in our forrests). Growers ROB the water from our natural creeks to feed their un-native plants, and chemical run off goes back to our watershed. Yeah, POT is really good for us.
ROGER DODGER	2012-08-17 10:28 AM
Feel free to drop it off over here and I will dispose of it for you.
COMMENT 309425	2012-08-17 10:40 AM
The depth of the hysteria in defense of pot indicates the depth of the addiction to it. Pot is harmful.
ROGER DODGER	2012-08-17 11:08 AM
@470 Why did you publish the licence plate number on my jeep? Now I'm going to have to switch plates again... I know pot is a gateway drug to the "Red Shirts" and all that I'm just wondering when all that otter stuff is gonna get me? I smoked weed from 8 years old to 20ish then stopped for 17 years. Long after I stopped drinking alcohol I got the recommadation. I smoke very little just enough to kill the pain somewhat it works better than vicoden, codene, oxtcontin, soma, and otter drugs all of which eat my liver. Even though I quit drinking my liver isn't up to par so I take what I can to ease the pain. Are you going to ease my pain? Seriously I think there are some people in this world that love to see others suffer it gets them off..I am not one of those people.
COMMENT 309536P	2012-08-17 11:09 AM
bummer
COMMENT 309538P	2012-08-17 11:14 AM
"I get high with a little help from my friends" The Beatles "if I told you what it takes to reach the highest high you'd laugh and say nothing's that simple" The Who I really don't think they were talking this stuff.
BECKY	2012-08-17 11:27 AM
Thank you to the agencies that did this clean-up. Trashing our national forest infuriates me. Illegal drug encampments endanger us all, and steal from us all. I worry far more about the 2 legged varmints in the forests nowadays, than I do about any other other creatures or dangers. I am fine with public resources being used to drive out this abuse of our public lands (though I'd like to send the bill to Mexico's drug cartels and US drug users). If you smoke marijuana, please grow it yourself, on your own property, for your own use. Otherwise, you're probably indirectly supporting this kind of abuse of our natural resources.
COMMENT 309430	2012-08-17 11:32 AM
SHOREBIRD - Let me spell it out for you in monosyllabic words so your overwhelmed brain can follow. Bad guys will keep grows in woods 'cause cost of land is too high and the sun is cheap.
BJGREEN	2012-08-17 11:57 AM
Did you hear about the group of terns (seabirds) that found a marijuana patch, and feasted on the plants all afternoon? At the end of the day, there was no tern left unstoned!
COMMENT 309591	2012-08-17 12:34 PM
That suspected pot grow at Stevens and Rocky Nook might very well just be people hiking. Have you seen the plants yourself? Good grief the paranoia and lack of education exhibitted here is like stepping back into the the 50's, 1850's that is. End the phony war on drugs.
COMMENT 309593	2012-08-17 12:42 PM
Funny how we do not hear about Portugal decriminalizing ALL drugs ten years ago. Result crime is down. Drug use is down. They went from one of the highest HIV transmission rates to one of the lowest. There is big money in prohibition on all sides, and plenty of suffering. Prohibition does not work.
COMMENT 309596	2012-08-17 12:48 PM
Do they prosecute people for growing ? I remember that large farm a few years ago up around Highway154 (or something)- by the photos it seemed very commercial. I remember the people arrested had Josh Lynn, former asst DA rep them - whatever happened to those folks? ...
COMMENT 309470	2012-08-17 12:54 PM
591.... I have watched the "action" at Rocky Nook park. Moving from spot to spot on a steep slope, pausing to do something, moving to the next spot.... ...different from hiking at 11 pm on Saturday night. Go and watch for yourself.
COMMENT 309614	2012-08-17 01:07 PM
When you buy street drugs you really don't have any idea what toxic chemicals have been sprayed on the plant and now you are ingesting them into your body. Do you think these "growers" are concerned with your health and safety? Good luck!
COMMENT 309633	2012-08-17 01:58 PM
End the war on drugs. Its a bigger loss than Vietnam at this point. We have more people in prison than Russia.
ROGER DODGER	2012-08-17 02:44 PM
Not to mention more people die from gulping down their favorite beverages everyday..Booze aient harmful not at all..There can't be more than a few hundred markets and restraunts that sell that drug in town. Have anutter drink!
COMMENT 309593	2012-08-17 03:32 PM
425- Hemp made the colonies happen. Their clothing and all our copies of the Constitution and Bill of Rights are made from it. Of course no one ever ingested it ;) All the sails and rigging on the tall ships was hemp and had to be replaced every few years. The colonists recycled these fibres into everyday products and clothing. The founding father wrote glowingly of this plant and its role in independence.
COMMENT 309692	2012-08-17 03:59 PM
Who needs mexi shwag when you can grow the real stuff on your own??/ legalize it? It's already legal!! Wooohoooo!!!!!
COMMENT 309704	2012-08-17 04:29 PM
Keeping pot illegal is what (1) the drug cartels and organized crime want, (2) big pharma wants, (3) the largely privatized prison industry wants, and (4) it what law enforcement agencies want... Keeping pot illegal is how certain criminal, corporate and other corrupt elements of society get FAT AND WEALTHY... and they pay off our terminally corrupt politicians, via an army of terminally corrupt Washington DC lobbyists to keep the law the way it is. Maintaining the law against pot is a national security risk, a national health nightmare, and a crime creator. Those who wish to maintain the status quo display an anti-American stance and are: (1) either benefitting financially, or (2) are hidebound by tradition, or (3) have been thoroughly brainwashed by decades of baseless, unscientific conspiracy theory and propaganda. QED.
MTNDRIVER	2012-08-17 07:01 PM
I don't think the license number 470 listed should be on edhat. Call the sheriffs, don't publicize someone's identity when what they're doing might be completely legitimate. Let law enforcement do its work. And please, east of Rocky Nook, are you sure it's not someone's veggie garden? I'm sure SBPD will be able to identify pot. A very public place to be growing that. I'll wait for the news report. And 474, "enviros" as you call them ARE all over this issue, as a matter of fact. The pollution and diversion of creeks is a big problem, as is the fire risk.
ROGER DODGER	2012-08-17 08:14 PM
Damn alcoholics anonymous meetings..
COMMENT 309834	2012-08-18 08:32 AM
Mine look better!!!!
COMMENT 309848	2012-08-18 09:03 AM
Thanks #704 for the rational breakdown. Some of the ignorance displayed by the anti pot crowd here is startling. Assuming they've got two good eyes, but they still can't see.
COMMENT 309870	2012-08-18 10:21 AM
Legalize it, so Mexican drug lords and overpaid American police can find something else to do with their time. Like so many other things, when government gets involved, everything goes to pot.
COMMENT 309900	2012-08-18 11:54 AM
That pot farm off of 154 that Erik Bjkorkland owned? I think he's going to trial....Funny how it's all big news then we never hear about it again. Just like the local tree guy that because of his lack of experience chose the wrong highway (ever hear of doing a little research?) later resulting in the bust of one of the biggest pot selling operations in central Florida history. I feel sorry for their families.What is up with these people? It's only stuff! Now they don't have the stuff anymore & in the tree guy's case his freedom.I bet his family would rather have him home then the lifestyle they had become accustomed to.
SHAKEY	2012-08-18 12:13 PM
Alot of truth to that @870 Ever see the cars cops drive? Ever see the homes they own.? Crime does pay!
COMMENT 309917	2012-08-18 12:43 PM
I think many of these posts are from the little trolls who represent the alcohol beverage industry. but remember when alcohol was illegal and how well that worked? and alcohol is obviously a thousand times more toxic and problematic than cannabis.
COMMENT 310486	2012-08-20 03:04 PM
I hear that Land Trust for Santa Barbara County is growing pot above Hot Springs Canyon from the 1 million gallons that was supposed to be released into streamflow. So much for the fraud of gifts to the public.
COMMENT 310488	2012-08-20 03:08 PM
That's quite the accusation, 486. Can you provide proof? Because I can say stuff like that too. Watch: I heard that Michael Towbes is running a secret methamphetamine operation after watching Breaking Bad.

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