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Cartels are growing marijuana illegally in California — and there's a war brewing
Business Insider ^ | 4/08/17 | Julian Smith

Posted on 04/09/2017 5:13:15 PM PDT by Libloather

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Growers often use empty containers like this to store toxic chemicals. In the previous year, every Gatorade bottle Gabriel and his team found at grow sites tested positive for carbofuran, a neurotoxic insecticide that is so nasty it has been banned in the U.S., Canada and the EU.

Farmers in Kenya have used it to kill lions. Symptoms of exposure range from nausea and blurred vision to convulsions, spontaneous abortions, and death. “They just leave these sitting around,” Gabriel says as he carefully swabs the bottle.

(Excerpt) Read more at yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: california; cannabis; cartels; fakenews; marijuana; pot; war; water; wod
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To: from occupied ga

Yeah... The color commentary hurts it.

However it’s high time to focus not on weeds but on what people do in public. Used to be public drunkenness was an offense. Gallons of liquor were not, until the failure that was Prohibition.


21 posted on 04/09/2017 5:56:33 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: gundog

Totally. The testing center in Medford - I don’t know if it’s the only one or there are others - said that 80% of the legally permitted grows failed the chem tests.

So they’ll be selling black market too.


22 posted on 04/09/2017 5:57:41 PM PDT by little jeremiah (Half the truth is often a great lie. B. Franklin)
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To: be-baw; VTenigma

I can’t name names, but I’ve read those snowflake posts myself.


23 posted on 04/09/2017 5:58:49 PM PDT by Balding_Eagle ( The Great Wall of Trump ---- 100% sealing of the border. Coming soon.)
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To: umgud

There are still bootleggers making and selling untaxed alcohol. It was a huge business in the 50s to early 70s, but still going on today. And alcohol is legal and has been for years.


24 posted on 04/09/2017 5:59:12 PM PDT by wrench
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To: little jeremiah

I heard, recently, of a guy whose legal grow failed testing. The State was nice enough to come to his house and burn everything.


25 posted on 04/09/2017 6:01:57 PM PDT by gundog (Hail to the Chief, bitches.)
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To: Libloather

It’s cool California is a sanctuary state.


26 posted on 04/09/2017 6:04:26 PM PDT by artichokegrower
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To: umgud

“Cartels growing” the fruits of a vice addicted population.


27 posted on 04/09/2017 6:04:26 PM PDT by AEMILIUS PAULUS
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To: Libloather

They do and have for decades. This ain’t new. They kill people who stumble onto their grown.

Grows exist throw out California but particularly so in northern Calufornis....even in the Santa Cruz mountains


28 posted on 04/09/2017 6:04:32 PM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: HiTech RedNeck; from occupied ga

-—got exposed to both malathion and parathion plenty as a teenager—used it for fly control in a dairy barn-—still alive and kicking at 76——


29 posted on 04/09/2017 6:05:03 PM PDT by rellimpank (--don't believe anything the media or government says about firearms or explosives--)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

It is the amount of malathion not the fact that it’s used


30 posted on 04/09/2017 6:05:31 PM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: Hugin

It is legal but taxed


31 posted on 04/09/2017 6:06:06 PM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: rellimpank

Para far worse, still the dose makes the poison


32 posted on 04/09/2017 6:06:26 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: gundog

That’s interesting. Around here a lot of the growers make dabs out of their trash/slash or whatever the 99% of the plants that aren’t buds is called. Then they have fun exploding the leftover solvents/propane and whatever other chemicals are used to make the stuff.

People were complaining around here because some growers were burning it all and the AQ got pretty bad, growers were getting moldy plants and then using tons of fungicide, using too much, and then the runoff went into creeks and streams, poisoning them.

I hope it’s very moldy this year and they lose tons of money. Pretty wet so far!


33 posted on 04/09/2017 6:07:11 PM PDT by little jeremiah (Half the truth is often a great lie. B. Franklin)
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To: Libloather

Sounds like Cartel dope is toxic. Buy American!


34 posted on 04/09/2017 6:09:15 PM PDT by TigersEye (Make up my mind, NBC,CBS,CNN,ABC. What are the "facts" today?)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

I’ve used Malathion. Is it still available? I used to buy it at Home Depot or Lowes.


35 posted on 04/09/2017 6:09:31 PM PDT by meyer (The Constitution says what it says, and it doesn't say what it doesn't say.)
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To: from occupied ga

In that case ... #FakeNews


36 posted on 04/09/2017 6:12:22 PM PDT by TigersEye (Make up my mind, NBC,CBS,CNN,ABC. What are the "facts" today?)
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To: umgud

“the new CA law allows individuals to grow up to 6 plants. And next year there will be licensed growers.”

And Supreme Court verdict for _Raich_ remains in effect, upholding the legality of the DEA to execute violent raids to confiscate those plants and prosecute the growers.

Trump could cause some serious consternation by piling on federal drug enforcement on top of the sanctuary city issues.


37 posted on 04/09/2017 6:12:59 PM PDT by ctdonath2 (Understand the Left: "The issue is never the issue. The issue is always the Revolution.")
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To: Libloather

We were told MaryJane was harmless.


38 posted on 04/09/2017 6:14:08 PM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: ctdonath2

They need to take ICE on the raids. Most of these grows are manned by illegals.


39 posted on 04/09/2017 6:14:46 PM PDT by umgud
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To: Libloather
Wildwood Weed - Ray Stevens

Take a trip and never leave the farm.
40 posted on 04/09/2017 6:14:50 PM PDT by Garth Tater (What's mine is mine.)
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