Record Marijuana Seizures in Texas

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Texas seized a record 62,000 pot plants in 2009, nearly double the amount taken the previous year. These were from outdoor grows whose sophistication impressed law enforcement. 30,000 plants were recovered from just one grow spread out over miles.

Once again law enforcement is blaming Mexican cartels for these grows.

http://www.star-telegram.com/texas/story/1785150.html

 

[THE GENERAL]

everything in Texas is big....

 

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Actually those figures are pretty paltry compared to California...

Then again, the penalties in Texas are probably far worse.

 

[RollmeoneKenobi]

Actually those figures are pretty paltry compared to California...

Then again, the penalties in Texas are probably far worse.

Yeah, it's bad to be busted in Texas, but not as bad as in the past when possession of a joint would be a life sentence.

 

[karmasabitch]

No foolin my dad grew up in Texas and left in 1941. He would tell me of my Great Uncle who was a ranch hand smokin the stuff. It was natural. My dad was half Mescal Apache and half German. His uncle my Great Uncle was full blood Mescal Apache. My dad said he never used the weed himself. Texas is so blind to it. The sheriff in his home town of marfa was busted with a horse trailer full of blow around 1992. If you have ever been in the Mexico boder area of Texas there's no way anything will stop the Mexicans from bringing over weed. It just can't be monitored. It's to vast. Now that it's being grown in Texas it needs to be legal. My aunt and uncle owned a burger stand In Marfa Tex. In the late fifties a movie "Giant" was filmed there. James Dean was in the movie. I've heard stories that after filming for the day JD would just relax and light up. A couple of months after the film was wrapped JD was dead in a wreck in California. Tex Mex has always been more than food. Weed was always in there too.

 

[Totah Sam]

Wow... Texas is having issues with drug cartels and huge growing operations. Arizona is having similar issues. Meanwhile, medical marijuana New Mexico is sitting between both states and guess what? No Cartels, no big grow operations or huge busts.

You would think LEO's would get the hint.

 

[lvclosetgrower]

Wow... Texas is having issues with drug cartels and huge growing operations. Arizona is having similar issues. Meanwhile, medical marijuana New Mexico is sitting between both states and guess what? No Cartels, no big grow operations or huge busts.

You would think LEO's would get the hint.

very good question never thought of that

 

[TheGreenBastard]

Texas state law is pretty bad when it comes to drugs. Though central Texas (Mostly Austin) is pretty lenient
with it. I'd say the majority of people here smoke/have smoked weed. In Austin people hardly get busted for possession, they really don't care unless you have huge amounts or are growing. Now Williamson and Bastrop county are two of the worst in the state on drugs, I have lived in both and Austin is in between them.

The weed in this article is most likely concentrated in south and west Texas.

Wow... Texas is having issues with drug cartels and huge growing operations. Arizona is having similar issues. Meanwhile, medical marijuana New Mexico is sitting between both states and guess what? No Cartels, no big grow operations or huge busts.

You would think LEO's would get the hint.

And that is a great point.

 

[dmt]

how can you wage war on nature? dont mess with texas, haha, d

 

[SpacedCWBY]

It blows my mind that the lawmakers who are spreading the anti-mexican propaganda would be smart enough to figure out that if they just legalized the shit that there wouldn't be crazed, murderous mexicans crossing the border to grow dope. Why on earth would they come up here anyhow? They just pay the cops off down there and loose a little smuggling it. Gotta be cheaper for them to do that than to risk losing 30,000 plants to the eye in the sky up here .

But if the mexicans were as rich as the alcohol and pharmaceutical companies the lawliars would probably change their minds.

 

[Jungle Jim]

"You can hunt the outdoor grows" through aerial surveillance, he said. "The indoor ones are more difficult to detect. We have to wait for intelligence or for someone to stumble on it."

Tell no one

 

[herbaholic]

The cartels are making their real money off importing coke and now Crystal Meth. Pot might account for maybe a fifth of their profits but the others are the real cash crops.

I don't believe that it's mexican cartels for a second. That's bullshit. The guys they found where hired hands period. Just because they found a couple of illegals doesn't mean the cartels are behind this, that's bullshit.

As for the article, the 30,000 plants were actually in OK and the morale of the story is that indoor grows are harder to find. . . .

 

[lvclosetgrower]

There will always be a demand low grade mexi brick and most meth and herion in the southwest usa is from mexico peace

 

[SpasticGramps]

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[SpasticGramps]

The cartels are making their real money off importing coke and now Crystal Meth. Pot might account for maybe a fifth of their profits but the others are the real cash crops.

I don't believe that it's mexican cartels for a second. That's bullshit. The guys they found where hired hands period. Just because they found a couple of illegals doesn't mean the cartels are behind this, that's bullshit.

As for the article, the 30,000 plants were actually in OK and the morale of the story is that indoor grows are harder to find. . . .

The cartels are not making most of their money off of coke and meth. That's a misconception. 60% of the cartels profits come from weed. There is a reason it's the number one cash crop in the world.

 

[Hash Zeppelin]

Most meth is made out in the vast expanses of the U.S. mid western states. Surprisingly the meth industry started flurishing there when the railroad industry failed. I guess it filled the gap.

The Econemy might be on verge of another very harsh drop due to this thing in Dubai. If this happens, some already failing indusrues will disapear.

I bet as the logging industry in southern Oregon continues to fail pot will fill the gap more. This will happen in other places too.

 

[Dislexus]

MDMA and MDA are being produced in Mexico as of earlier this year. Some good powder flooding the southwest right now. Look out israeli syndicates you got competition.

 

[wotamess]

the shitty thing is record busts just mean they're gonna try harder next season!

you don't need to lose your eyesight, to be blind...

-wam-

 

[BevoLabs]

Texas state law is pretty bad when it comes to drugs. Though central Texas (Mostly Austin) is pretty lenient
with it. I'd say the majority of people here smoke/have smoked weed. In Austin people hardly get busted for possession, they really don't care unless you have huge amounts or are growing. Now Williamson and Bastrop county are two of the worst in the state on drugs, I have lived in both and Austin is in between them.

The weed in this article is most likely concentrated in south and west Texas.

And that is a great point.

I have a question, that I think a few of yall may be able to answer. I am looking at leasing, and eventually buying a 2-10 acre ranch. I would like to be able to have a green house, and run no more than 5kW indoors. I will also be doing some normal gardening and raising some cattle(Im a redneck with a green thumb). Which area of Texas would be best? I am a Houston native, but ended up in Austin for college.

Ive looked into land in the Liberty Hill area(Williamson) that I really like, but I would like some input before I seriously start limiting my choices.

Which areas and counties would yall consider best for this type of setup? I would like to stay close to the Houston, Austin or East Texas area.

 

[BevoLabs]

Also, over Thanksgiving break I was bullshitting with my good friend, who is now a cop in the worst part of North Houston. He isn't a normal beat cop, he is on a special force that only patrols the extremely high crime areas and they don't respond to calls. He said heroin has been the biggest drug in the area, from the cartels recently. His unit picks up 1-2 people a day for just heroin.

As for meth, he said over the last year, Mexico is the biggest supplier, by far. In the US most of the pre-cursor materials are just too hard to get a hold of, and in Mexico they can be gotten at an industrial scale.

As for weed, he said it is everywhere. Plain and simple, everywhere.

As for the DEA. He said the DEA won't even screw with a case unless they had already had their nose in it investigating. He said he has pulled over cars with 10 kilos of coke and $400k, and the DEA didn't give a shit about it.

He showed me pictures of grow in an old church off Lee Rd in Houston. 1000+ plants, and what looked like 2 rows of 8-10 lights. He acted like it wasn't that big of a deal. It blew my mind.