Thousands of pot plants seized in Humboldt County The Associated Press / Aug. 14, 2010 EUREKA, Calif. -- Authorities in Humboldt County have been especially busy this week in finding marijuana gardens. Sheriff's officials say during a series of raids between Monday and Thursday, deputies and officers from other agencies discovered more than 60,000 marijuana plants. The biggest find of the week came on Wednesday when authorities seized a little more than 30,000 marijuana plants on U.S. Forest Service land near the community of Orleans. More than 20,000 plants were seized during a raid Monday in the Redwood Valley, while another 7,500 marijuana plants were found on Bureau of Land Management and State Parks property Tuesday. Officials wrapped up their raids for the week by seizing about 6,400 plants on Bureau of Land Management property near Garbeville on Thursday. No arrests were made in any of the raids. I wonder if the growers in Humboldt county still want to keep prohibition in place to protect their profits or if legalization sounds a little better now? Even if all the grows were cartel grows,the helicopters and police running through the woods had to raise some of the local growers stress level substantially.
And have some hiker or bird watcher killed or maimed for life by accident? That would certainly bring up the approval rating for cannabis use.
only if they were weed mines.. that like bounced up and sprayed weed smoke so that these forest rangers and DEA people would get stoned...
lets see how much they like getting raided, maybe then they'll change their stance on p19 least no one was arrested I guess, if it was all legit and shit.. most likely was
maybe the growers called the feds in because both parties have an interest in keeping it illegal. Say they called in the feds and said "Here is the location of some shit weed , lots of it. .. Dont arrest anyone and you can "bust" as much as you want and put that shit on the news it makes it look like prohibition is working and you will be able to use this to stop prop 19. " The cops end up looking like theyre actually doing something. The growers look like theyre losing. The voter is tricked into believeing that the drug war is turning around and worth while. Prop 19 fails...
60k plants huh... thats less than 0.00000000000000000000000001% of the plants growing in cali police working backwards.. no surprise!