Growing Pot In A Park Near You
The Questionable Authority is both a blog about evolution and an evolving blog. Its author is Mike Dunford, a graduate student in the Department of Zoology at the University of Hawaii, Manoa.
If you're wondering why I'd be on a site such as this, I'll tell you. I was looking for a bit of background on 'the evolution of man' and clicking on links I ended up on a site whose headline read, "How Green Is Mary Jane?"
Being the snoop that I am and recognizing Mary Jane as slang for cannabis, I stopped for a peak.
Give this one a read - it tells you what the drug cartels are doing now to avoid having to bring their goods into the country and risk being caught by the border patrols.
Pot farmers have taken to farming on public lands. National parks, forests, and other wilderness areas are usually open to the public, and contain large stretches of land that are nowhere near civilization, where nobody lives, and where people rarely go. That's perfect for clandestine farming. It's a little inconvenient, and the farmers get to do a lot of backbreaking work carting all the supplies in, but hey, no pain, no gain. And that's just what's been happening. Pot farms have been found, and they're leaving behind environmental damage that will take a huge amount of effort and hundreds of thousands of dollars to repair. And, of course, we know that it's virtually impossible to ever fix everything.
