[HD1200]

Kentucky is second to California for marijuana production, much of it hidden in the Daniel Boone National Forest, where this person was killed.

He probably was thought to be a DEA Agent when he started asking too many questions of some grower’s household.

The growers play a vicious game in the hills using booby traps and even poisonous snakes to protect their “crop”.

[neefer]

The growers play a vicious game in the hills using booby traps and even poisonous snakes to protect their “crop”.
Many years ago I met a Native American who grew up on a reservation in New York state. He and his brother would take turns sleeping in the "garden" with a shotgun. Apparently it wasn't uncommon for someone to die of gun shot wounds during harvest.

[Nucluside]

They haven’t said where this person was killed, just where he was found. The booby trap thing is getting to be pase’. Most now are some sort of sound warning devices that can alert the growers. Also, KY follows CA and TN in pot production, but that which is grown in Appalachia (TN and KY), is the “best”.

While those in Appalachia love their privacy, census people are much more apt to be invited in for a cup of coffee than killed. What with all the choppers in the air and people cruising the mountains armed in humvees, growers are more than likely going to be even more hospitable than their neighbors.