[nickcarraway]

"They're basically stealing the land from what it was intended for, which is recreation and hiking and hunting," said Ryan Pontecorvo, Eradication Team Commander.

Hunting?!?! Is there any public land for hunting in the Bay Area?

[nickcarraway]

Ping

[surely_you_jest]

"They're basically stealing the land from what it was intended for, which is recreation and hiking and hunting," said Ryan Pontecorvo, Eradication Team Commander.

Gee. I thought weed was considered to be recreation in CA.

[AxelPaulsenJr]

May I ask why my post was removed, it was made in jest?

[1rudeboy]

Someone help me out here. If the farms are on public land, does that mean they have to share?

[caseinpoint]

Field growing is the poor man’s way. Here in the Bay Area and San Joaquin Valley the trend is to use upscale houses as nurseries. Recently one Asian gang was implicated in the purchase of dozens of houses used for growing pot.

[varyouga]

Legalize and pot will be grown on farms by farmers instead of by violent criminals on public land.

Prohibition has turned a ditch weed more valuable than gold. A ditch weed that should be cheaper than tobacco or basil.

You don’t see Mexican cartels setting up Tobacco grows in our forests.

[mainestategop]

Well it’s they bay area im not surprised.

[TKDietz]

Just regulate it so tax paying American farmers can grow it and take all those billions of dollars from organized crime. The better we do at policing our borders, the more marijuana we’ll see being grown here. That’s just a fact. The way to stop all this clandestine growing is to legalize it and let law abiding farmers grow it.

[underground]

Marijuana is one of the top cash crops in California the U.S.A.

(and has been for hundreds of years)

[StormEye]

They should try this.

[stylecouncilor]

"If you grow it, we will come"
We sure will!

[TigersEye]

Let people grow their own and that would all go away.