We arrived home from a ten-day trip to California this morning at 2:00 a.m. We were actually scheduled to fly out today, but we moved our departure up to avoid the monster storm.
There are so many things to like about California, but here’s a bad thing. After California legalized marijuana use, Mexican drug cartels moved into the national forests to grow dope. These are not the old hippies of Mendocino County who grew pot for their friends with a little on the side to sell.
These are people who use insecticides and herbicides, put plastic bottles of poison around their plants for bears to bite into, use large amounts of water in a state with major shortages, cut down acres of trees, and are dangerous to both hunters and backpackers.
I know a number of people who voted for the marijuana initiative who wish they hadn’t. Of course, one way to eliminate the cartels would be to legalize pot growing in every state. If the price came down, the cartels would have no incentive to undertake their illegal and harmful activities.
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