Comments on: WalMart Growing Operations

By: eddenson

eddenson — Thu, 09 Aug 2012 06:24:01 +0000

All right, enough of this small garden crap. They just busted a 26,000 plant outdoor garden (well, 4 gardens) in Hoopa. Get a picture of that, and take down the shots of this little stuff.

One way to look at it is this: The raid was another job-killing, economy wrecking move by law enforcement. Imagine 100,000 pounds (thats just under 4# per plant) being trimmed. I don’t know what a trimmer can do in a day, but lets say 2 pounds. We get 50,000 trimmer days, or about 20 million dollars of income into the local economy. If they’ve got to trim in, say, 50 days, that’s 1000 trimmers working for 2 months (wiith weekends off) not to mention the workers in the garden, of whom there must have been a large number. How many people are unemployed in Humboldt County? What would our unemployment rate be if 1000 people were given 2 months work?

I’m being tongue in cheek, or am I? It’s time the supervisors wake up and smell the effect on our economy of the marijuana industry, and start supporting it (at least that part that is medical) instead of these raids. How much did it cost for this raid? How much did it cost to pay a cop to count those plants? (and they do count them). Now we not only don’t have the teachers, or firemen, or road repairs, or homeless shelters that the raid money could have been used for, but we also lose the economic benefits of the crop. This is stupid. Where are all the conservatives now that we need them?

By: Farmer John

Farmer John — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 02:05:51 +0000

When I took the tractor story to the local cop shop, they all had a long chuckle and genuinely enjoyed hearing about it. I felt it my civic duty to warn them to keep their ears open for the sound of a big John Deere tractor coming down the street as there would undoubtedly be some copycat crimes.
As a former bodyworker I might suggest a good deep tissue massage session for those tight shoulders I have seen walking around town. Rigid body armoring can lead to inflexible thinking and a general uptightness which might reduce the quality of your professional work.

By: Labtech

Labtech — Mon, 06 Aug 2012 19:45:23 +0000

Does the money get spent locally? In a word, no. And beyond basic property tax they don’t pay any taxes. However, they use all our services and tie up our law enforcement.

By: Eric Kirk

Eric Kirk — Mon, 06 Aug 2012 19:05:21 +0000

I don’t find anything about the Vermont episode humorous. That will create a financial hardship on a small community, something they probably don’t need under current economic conditions. Hopefully they won’t get burned by their insurance carrier. Thankfully this guy, with a rich sense of entitlement, didn’t manage to hurt or kill anybody.

I suppose I could blame the incident on the drug war and all, but really I think it’s more about the lacking of effective mental health care in this country.

By: Farmer John

Farmer John — Mon, 06 Aug 2012 14:18:17 +0000

Senators introduce Bipartisan Hemp Farming act AND, finally .... "A decade after the Coalition for Rescheduling Cannabis (CRC) filed its petition seeking to have marijuana moved from Schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act, the federal courts will finally review the scientific evidence regarding the therapeutic efficacy of marijuana. The DC Circuit Court of Appeals announced late last week that it will hear oral arguments in October in a lawsuit filed by Americans for Safe Access (ASA) to force the government to act."

By: spyrock

spyrock — Mon, 06 Aug 2012 07:37:24 +0000

sorry about that. it was aunt joy, aunt ruth’s sister that howard was married to. not that i believe this story. i always liked aunt joy. but she did sell the land which everyone wished she would have kept in the family.

By: spyrock

spyrock — Mon, 06 Aug 2012 07:25:16 +0000

what is the stuff about the valley stealing your water. the only thing that brings water to the sacramento river from your area is gravity as it has done for thousands of years. the vast majority of the water for the valley comes from the sierras. and due to the vast canal system, the pesticides they do use don’t run off into the river like they would in hill country where mj grows are the norm. much of the valley’s water is diverted to southern california. otherwise, a huge amout of land could be culitvated that isn’t.
i don’t know why you guys are talking about gmo’s when you have your own gmgs creating most of your problems., down in fresno on tv they showed this 13 year old getting caught with a couple of seedlings a couple of days old and a two foot monster plant. that was a huge bust for fresno. and you guys are complaining because some growers are greedier than others.
greedy marijuana growers. maybe you should start a union and develope a grievance proceedure. and then you put down the cattle ranchers. my great grandfather owned 12,000 acres south of spyrock and his brother owned thousands of acres north of spyrock. one of the things that might be the cause for your problems up there is all that cowpatty seeping into your water supply causing everyone downstream to go insane. for that i am truely sorry. or you could try just diverting all the water from the eel to irrigate your plants like you already do and realize that the fertilizer in it is a freebee left over from another age and its not safe to drink. of course, when uncle howard got old, aunt ruth burnt him up in a trailer so the story goes and sold the land to a lumber company. greed seems to be the bane of the white peeps up there. maybe it’s an old indian curse. ya think.

By: moviedad

moviedad — Mon, 06 Aug 2012 01:28:38 +0000

Ok, try: “unbelievably.” I type faster than I think. As one might deduce from some of my comments.

By: moviedad

moviedad — Mon, 06 Aug 2012 00:44:55 +0000

He is unbelievability lucky he wasn’t shot to death.

By: Ernie Branscomb

Ernie Branscomb — Sun, 05 Aug 2012 19:49:34 +0000

Reefer madness…