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Bennyboy

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29. interesting story from where i live about growing pot..
Sat Aug 31, 2013, 12:50 PM
Aug 2013

In compliance? Sheriff’s enforcement team finds growers still violating county cultivation ordinance

As the two Nevada County Sheriff’s deputies bounce in their truck along the rutted dirt roads so prevalent in this section of Big Oak Valley, they point to one mega-greenhouse after another dotting the hillsides. A 96-passenger school bus next to one greenhouse “looks like a Matchbox (car),” commented Deputy Esteban Salinas, out conducting compliance checks for the county’s medical marijuana cultivation ordinance. The massive structures are “all over the place down here,” Salinas said. “People will call us about 40-foot greenhouses — and they aren’t lying,” added Salinas’ partner on the team, Deputy Jason Mackey. Most of the greenhouses

http://www.theunion.com/news/7887209-113/violations-ordinance-compliance-grow (Sorry about the paywall)

the article goes on and is pretty good. here we produce A LOT OF POT. after HUMBOLDT AND MENDO, nevada co is next on the list.

lot of people do not like the ordinance, but it seems fair.

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Aaaaaaaaah! Please. Stop the madness! Lint Head Aug 2013 #1
[Acohol] can cause suicidal thoughts, impairs driving and is a "gateway drug." SharonAnn Aug 2013 #30
There are so many people taking aspirin that a case could be made that it is a gateway drug also. Lint Head Aug 2013 #35
Will Holder do the backstroke? ohheckyeah Aug 2013 #2
It sounds like the police state feels threatened? kentuck Aug 2013 #4
As the article said.... ohheckyeah Aug 2013 #6
I think you might have meant... Tx4obama Aug 2013 #3
Yes, thanks! kentuck Aug 2013 #5
This is pathetic. Fuck these cops. Go after some REAL criminals you lazy idiots. eom 99th_Monkey Aug 2013 #7
+1000 n/t LuvNewcastle Aug 2013 #26
If they really felt that legalization snort Aug 2013 #8
It's about money. Mariana Aug 2013 #32
Police state doesn't want to get off the bandwagon cprise Aug 2013 #9
They are into the entitlements as the Repugs would say. riversedge Aug 2013 #11
It all comes down to the mighty $!! riversedge Aug 2013 #10
Going to impinge on their "stop and steal" operation. Downwinder Aug 2013 #12
Local law enforcement agencies that rely heavily on the drug war for funding = Welfare B Calm Aug 2013 #13
LE is hooked on drugs itself, it seems KG Aug 2013 #14
"Condolences. The bums lost." Shampoobra Aug 2013 #15
Good. Holder revoked the cops' license to steal meow2u3 Aug 2013 #16
So, no pony? nt bemildred Aug 2013 #17
Property siezure is a gateway drug to a totalitarian state. mick063 Aug 2013 #18
Fuck the Cops otohara Aug 2013 #19
"Local law enforcement agencies rely heavily on the drug war for funding" damnedifIknow Aug 2013 #20
I call bullshit. Many support legslization Beaverhausen Aug 2013 #21
Do you think the joint letter to Holder is a forgery? nt Mariana Aug 2013 #33
Fuck the Corrupt Police Departments, pigs feeding at the trough AZ Progressive Aug 2013 #22
I'll bet those pigs are cleaner. n/t LuvNewcastle Aug 2013 #27
What did they think was going to happen? Ruby the Liberal Aug 2013 #23
exactly Liberal_in_LA Aug 2013 #25
shut up police Liberal_in_LA Aug 2013 #24
Fuck the pigs! gopiscrap Aug 2013 #28
interesting story from where i live about growing pot.. Bennyboy Aug 2013 #29
There will be difficulty in transition. mick063 Aug 2013 #34
Loss of a very important franchise that was very lucrative threatens the LE industry. Old and In the Way Aug 2013 #31
They need to grow up and start doing their real job. Chasing pot smokers only fills our jails with jwirr Aug 2013 #36
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