The Political Hat

     Another “quick takes” on items where there is too little to say to make a complete article, but is still important enough to comment on.

     The focus this time: Not in their right mind.

     First, a little mood movie:

     Carrying on…

     Remember how pot smoking hippies were supposed to be all into nature and stuff, like these crying hippies below:

     Turns out that those wonderful marijuana farmers are anything but:

“Detective Chandler Baird of the Humboldt County Sheriff showed KPIX 5 how growers are clear-cutting 100 year old redwoods, leveling hills and sucking dry rivers that are already stricken by drought. Not to mention the violence.

“‘We do come across a lot of firearms, we have deputies that have gotten into shootings before in these grows,’ said Baird. ‘Some of the ones I have shown you today are definitely known drug trafficking organizations.’

“So who are these new gold diggers? Where do they come from? ‘All 50 states, Latin America, Asia, Bulgaria,’ said Baird.

“We asked, why Bulgaria? ‘There’s a lot of money to be made in marijuana,’ said Baird. ‘It’s a modern day green rush.'”

     Yah, real peaceful.  De facto legalization solves sooo many crimes against the world…

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