As a vet I used to wonder why we spend billions of tax money to occupy nations that have done nothing to us while we have cartels on our southern border spilling over on our soil, so far as to have some areas displaying signs by the government dissuading people to go into them. After watching some of Murder Mountain I now also think there should be a countdown given to the growers there after which shock and awe would befall those that want to remain "outlaws". Further, it's a travesty that these people are taking a beautiful natural environment and turning it into something that would give the most inbred redneck areas a run for their money. It's utterly numbing that more people disappear there than anywhere in the state - and the county has a total population under 140,000. If the FBI has not begun to take this on, along with possibly other alphabet agencies, that is another factor in this story that just doesn't make any sense.
At the end of the day I don't oppose marijuana, and think all drugs should be legal, because the declaration of a silly war on drugs has never thwarted people seeking them out. But the greed and lack of accountability in Humboldt, and the fact that police are escorted by armed nobodies working for growers, coupled with the intense competition, the clinging to some sort of "outlaw" nonsensical motto, and the number of people that have vanished or ended up dead, it's high time the feds come in. And if the feds can't clean up a part of our nation perhaps it's time for our military to once again burn some crops; military cannot act as law enforcement, but while they burn crops of those that fail to become legal, other can make busy with arrests. The amount of weight that could come down on these people is immense, from loss of investment, loss of the ability to recover, arrest, and not to mention the IRS. As it stands, in my book, Humboldt is a cancerous growth as far as the state is concerned.
At the end of the day I don't oppose marijuana, and think all drugs should be legal, because the declaration of a silly war on drugs has never thwarted people seeking them out. But the greed and lack of accountability in Humboldt, and the fact that police are escorted by armed nobodies working for growers, coupled with the intense competition, the clinging to some sort of "outlaw" nonsensical motto, and the number of people that have vanished or ended up dead, it's high time the feds come in. And if the feds can't clean up a part of our nation perhaps it's time for our military to once again burn some crops; military cannot act as law enforcement, but while they burn crops of those that fail to become legal, other can make busy with arrests. The amount of weight that could come down on these people is immense, from loss of investment, loss of the ability to recover, arrest, and not to mention the IRS. As it stands, in my book, Humboldt is a cancerous growth as far as the state is concerned.