$1.19 billion worth of marijuana seized
in massive drug bust in California
CBS News,
by
Tori B Powell
Original Article
Posted By: NorthernDog,
7/8/2021 8:57:51 AM
Authorities in Southern California have seized more than 16 tons of marijuana worth an estimated $1.19 billion, Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department officials said Wednesday. The 10-day sting is the largest eradication of illegal marijuana cultivations in the history of the department. (Snip) "We're talking about the cartels," Lancaster, California, Mayor Rex Parris said at a Wednesday press conference. "We are not talking about mom and pop people selling marijuana that they grew in their backyard. This is the cartels. We are very very close to driving down the freeway and seeing bodies hanging from the overpasses. That is what's
Reply 1 - Posted by:
red1066 7/8/2021 9:08:17 AM (No. 839126)
Funny how when tax money is at stake, the feds and states really jump into action.
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Let's see, legalizing marijuana was supposed to reduce the illegal marijuana growing because it would not be able to compete with legal weed. And, of course, the increase in cartel activity is completely unrelated to the uncontrolled southern border.
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Sure glad we have this open border policy that allows the cartels to do this. It was much tougher with Orange Man Bad running the show, but now Prezzy 10% has set things back to right.
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RuckusTom 7/8/2021 9:15:13 AM (No. 839133)
Jeepers. I thought pot was legal in Cali. Oh, it's not sold in vegetable departments of grocery stores next to the lettuce? Sounds like it's not really legal then, doesn't it? By the way, the cartels don't have the overhead of fees, licenses, extra police and public defenders, tax collectors, prison guards, judges etc. etc. that the legal producers have to deal with.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
FlaDiver74 7/8/2021 9:28:14 AM (No. 839138)
They don't call it the HIGH Desert for nothing.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Ida Lou Pino 7/8/2021 9:41:34 AM (No. 839151)
Oh, goody, goody! Another "massive"drug seizure. How many have there been now - - in the 50+ years that the "War On Drugs" has been waged?
Did you ever notice - - that 50+ years of "massive" drug seizures - - has done nothing to "solve" the "illegal" drug problem? That it's worse than ever - - after 50+ years, trillions of dollars spent, hundreds of thousands of deaths, creation of violent drug "cartels", and monumental corruption of politics and law enforcement?
Yeah! Let's keep the "War On Drugs" going! 50+ years isn't enough!
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LC Chihuahua 7/8/2021 10:11:07 AM (No. 839191)
Thought the whacky tobaccy was legal in Kalifornia. Oh! They weren't paying taxes! This isn't a drug bust. Its a raid on people not paying taxes. The crime is tax evasion, not drug smuggling, regardless of what is being said.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Gordon Mills 7/8/2021 10:39:17 AM (No. 839236)
#6, have you ever noticed the correlation between drug use and the downward slide of this country? I will say one thing for György Schwartz, he understands that if most of the population have addled brains they will spend most of their time seeking the next pleasure trip and not care one whit about anything else other than a 'free' hit provided by government.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Geoman 7/8/2021 10:48:27 AM (No. 839247)
The California math looks a bit funny (not funny haha, but funny queer). $1.19B for 32,000 pounds of weed seems beyond excessive, especially wholesale. Never heard of any weed strain going for $37,000+ per pound or around $2,300 an ounce.
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Wait. Are all these cops racist xenophobe fascists like Trump for suppressing these cartels?
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
stanwoodpb 7/8/2021 11:06:51 AM (No. 839260)
Nearly everything about this article is BS. $37,187.50 per pound for weed? If you can't get it right in the first sentence then how much else in the article isn't remotely true?
And how are we close to having bodies hanging form overpasses? What is that supposed to mean? No explanation given.
The CA government set the taxes so high for the legal sales of marijuana that it's still worth the risk to have illegal grows. You'd think that before we're "seeing bodies hanging from the overpasses" that they might want to revisit the tax structure.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Marzipan4 7/8/2021 11:14:27 AM (No. 839273)
Lovely Oregon, once home to sweeping fields of pear orchards or grape vines now houses thousands of the white shade cloth green houses cartel owned. Farmers strong armed out of their fields by cartel bosses and cash, rural backroad highways sprouting stripped out hulks of cars, just like living south of Tijuana 30 years ago! Thank you progressives for the modernization of our valley , grrrrrrr
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Lawsy0 7/8/2021 11:48:31 AM (No. 839300)
Darn. There goes the weekend!
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
jacksin5 7/8/2021 12:03:35 PM (No. 839310)
Research how many politicians have their fingers in the Medical Marijuana, and "Legal" Marijuana pie, and it becomes readily apparent the seizures are not a lost tax issue, it's investors losing money issue.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
formerNYer 7/8/2021 12:05:11 PM (No. 839311)
When its cheaper to but illegal pot why by the state sanctioned legal pot? The PRC put so much government regulation on their legal pot it's much cheaper just to get the street stuff.
PRC can't get pot correct = democRATs at their best.
PRC = People's Reublix of Kalifonia
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Terry_tr6 7/8/2021 12:12:12 PM (No. 839317)
this must be the george floyd by the pin joint price
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Heil Liberals 7/8/2021 12:48:23 PM (No. 839346)
Revenuers are upset that you can actually grow it without being taxed on it.
If sunshine were proven to alter you state of mind in some unapproved way, the government would find a way to outlaw it, tax it, or deprive you of it.
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Sandpiper 7/8/2021 12:59:45 PM (No. 839356)
“the impacts of illegal marijuana cultivation by cartels include water theft, human trafficking, pollution and threats to safety and security.”
I have family in LE Humboldt County in NorCal, where much of the illegal pot is grown. Something you never hear environmentalists bring up is the damage illegal grows do to the environment. They will tap into streams and completely run them dry, drought or no drought. They use excessive amounts of fertilizer which runs off unimpeded into lakes and cause dangerous algae blooms. They poison rats who get eaten by raptors and owls who die from secondary poisoning. Logging isn’t killing the spotted owl - rat poison from pot farms is! And power?? They’ll rig up a way to get power for free and use HUGE amounts.
But pot is cool, so no condemnation.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Videodrone 7/8/2021 3:16:40 PM (No. 839463)
There is such a glut of greenhouse pot in Mendocino and Humboldt that the legal processors & distributes are sitting on this years early harvesters and trying to move last year's!
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
Hazymac 7/8/2021 5:05:28 PM (No. 839585)
#11's math is correct. $37,000+ per pound sounds somewhat inflated. Heroin prices. Reminds one of the old Cheech and Chong line in answer to "Hey, you wanna buy some S***?" Q: "How much is the s***?" "Thirty-seven thousand dollars per pound, man." "Must be good s***!"
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
JHHolliday 7/8/2021 7:20:01 PM (No. 839751)
Losing tax money suddenly causes the state to start cracking down. Same thing with the revenuers harassing my ancestors in Appalachia for making moonshine…they didn’t care about the evils of alcohol, just lost tax dollars. The state also thought they would get a tax windfall but with high taxes and onerous rules and fees your local weed man is undercutting the legal stores. Business people know you need to price your product competitively but most politicians don’t have a clue about how the market works.
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So far legalizing marijuana has not slowed down the cartels. There are more potential customers than ever, and the state of CA doesn't like any competition.