Thread: CA County residents root out pot gardens

KENT PORTER / THE PRESS DEMOCRAT

Andres Palomino, pulls up a marijuana plant Sunday rugged terrain west of Healdsburg. He was among eight friends and neighbors who located a camp and a marijuana grove under a canopy of manzanita.

By JULIE JOHNSON
THE PRESS DEMOCRAT


Published: Sunday, August 8, 2010 at 8:31 p.m.
Last Modified: Sunday, August 8, 2010 at 8:31 p.m.

Fresh footprints leading into the dense brush. A broken branch. A piece of garbage catching the light.

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They could be signs of wild pigs and the hunters that pursue them.

But many landowners in rugged hills of Sonoma and Mendocino counties know better. They know those may very well be signs of hidden marijuana gardens and the threats that drug's cultivators pose to people on the land.

One retired teacher is so angry about the dammed streams, booby-trapped trails and garbage dumped in the woods by marijuana growers that on Sunday she risked confrontation to hunt down a pot garden she suspected was on her land.

“I have a hot Italian temper,â€

This is a follow up to this related story:

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I hope more people follow the lead of this brave senior citizen woman.If we wait for our tax paid government officials to take control of this situation ..well we will be waiting for Hell to freeze over.

My father found a large plot of pot growing on his land.He called the Police, they did NOTHING so,armed with shotguns, we went back poured gasoline on it and watched it burn. The Scorched Earth effect works. No more weed problems after that.

I wonder if Obama would change his mind about illegal immigration if his daughters couldn't go play in their backyard because illegal immigrants that work for drug cartels are out there armed and setting traps.

The worst part of all of this? It's 2010 and a plant that has many purposes and uses is illegal. God made pot, man made alcohol.