Motorcycle Gangs and Marijuana

[Tonchi]

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

International? federal hyperbole.

Actually, no. The Mexican drug cartels have set up shop in so many locations around Yosemite and Kings Canyon National Parks, up the road from me, that we frequently see news about the latest "haul" off the mountainsides. Rarely do the agents actually catch the growers, it appears that they have stationed illegal immigrants at the sites, with sophisticated warning systems set up everywhere so that they escape, leaving irrigation equipment, fertilizers and quite a large cache of supplies and food, sometimes weapons. Rangers now consider international pot growers to be more dangerous in our national parks than almost any other possibility that a tourist can get themselves into, and there is actually a protocol about what somebody should do when they stumble upon one of these operations (back away and run for your life).