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Read about how one impoverished Northern California town turned to pot farming since the logging business disappeared. It's a town where the police ignore all the legal grows, some near the roads and schools and only focus on illegal grows in the forests.

As a result of the influx of growers into Trinity County, real estate values have soared, as they have in other Northern California towns where growers have moved. Indeed it is the pot growers who are keeping the economy alive in these areas.

https://www.latimes.com/news/nationwo...tory?track=rss

[Hazelnuts]

"I just wish recreational pot smokers could understand what they are supporting," said Joshua Smith, natural resources project manager at the nonprofit Watershed Research & Training Center in Trinity County. "They're supporting clear-cutting the forest, pesticides, de-watering the streams, poaching wildlife, Mexican drug cartels and human trafficking."

Well yes, we know that good sir! That's why we keep fighting for legalization...
Yet it's those people who keep telling you that weed has to remain illegal for those reasons, even though legalization would remove all those problems...

Thanks for the link by the way, interesting read!

[ItsAllOver]

If I lived in that area, I would be angry and this article for talking about,
"The sheriff's office estimates 10,000 plants are growing in a single remote subdivision known as Trinity Pines. Lots on its southwest-facing slope sell for as much as $50,000"
Not cool. They are inviting riff-raff.

[OzzBozz]

yeah man that place is getting blown up in the media
the whole triangle has been lately
shittyness.

[johnnyla]

you'll shoot yer eye out kid.

(if you're a ripper and go hunting)

[johnnyla]

they just need to shoot one ripper a year, about July, get the word out.

[itsaplant]

i lived in forest glen for awhile and in hayfork and those towns needed soemthing to get thye ecommy going it used th be really bad as far as money goes

[Old time lurker]

Originally Posted by ItsAllOver

If I lived in that area, I would be angry and this article for talking about,
"The sheriff's office estimates 10,000 plants are growing in a single remote subdivision known as Trinity Pines. Lots on its southwest-facing slope sell for as much as $50,000"
Not cool. They are inviting riff-raff.

Totally agree...It's one thing to keep it a "wink and nod" hush hush operation btw. locals, and an entirely other thing to make it front page news and advertise the fact. As long as there are huge profits in it, there's going to be scum-bag rippers looking to make a quick buck.
O/T
I don't live in CA., but it seems to me that there is a line of journalists at the gates of Humbolt county just waiting to get in and snoop around, hoping to win some sort of "journalism" award. I hope this doesn't spread to Colorado; I was just reading an article in the Denver Post about how Colorado is experiencing a real-estate rush generated by the MMJ industry. I saw a real estate listing for a house where the description was (literally): Perfect for a grow house!