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Pot farmers growing marijuana in public parks [IL]
    #8925574 - 09/13/08 08:49 PM (15 years, 6 months ago)

Pot farmers growing marijuana in public parks
September 13, 2008 - Sun-Times

With the U.S.-Mexico border being tightened, law enforcement is seeing more locally grown marijuana -- often with dope farmers using public lands such as parks and forest preserves.

Cook County Forest Preserve District Police Chief Richard Waszak says there has been an increase in marijuana farming operations in the Forest Preserve District's 64,000 acres in recent years.

Cook County Forest Preserve Police Officer Jim Bolek checks out a budding marijuana plant in July before tossing it into a burning pile.

Last month, Forest Preserve police burned about 3,000 plants at Pioneer Woods near Palos Hills, gathered from half a dozen spots in the south suburbs.

And earlier this year, two men were sentenced to two years in prison in connection with tens of thousands of marijuana plants grown "in straight rows like corn" in a forest preserve near Barrington.

Mexican nationals Jose Verra and Bernardo Rangel, both 23, told investigators they were farmers paid to grow the crop. A college-age conservation intern found the "plantation" and told authorities.

Verra and Rangel tended about 20,000 marijuana plants -- some up to 8 feet tall -- valued at a total of $4 million, inside the Crabtree Nature Preserve. During the bust, a tent was found along with food supplies, fertilizer bags and a cooking and showering area. About 30 yards away, the farmers had built a reinforced underground bunker, lined with four-inch logs and covered with dirt.

Waszak said he suspects marijuana growers are using public land to avoid having their private property seized if their crop is spotted by investigators.

In August, police destroyed about 1,800 marijuana plants being cultivated on land owned by the McHenry County Conservation District -- one of the largest drug operations authorities there can recall finding on public land.

"It doesn't belong to anybody, like a farmer's field does," said McHenry County Sheriff Keith Nygren. "A lot of it has to do with the land being set aside and remote. We still have a lot of rural land in our county, and it's ideal for growers."

Large-scale marijuana farming, with a late September to mid-October harvest, isn't for your average Cheech and Chong.

"It's very labor-intensive. You have to clear the land, build berms to keep the deer out and fertilize,'' said one law enforcement official. "You have to know what you're doing.''

Many times, the crops are watched by armed guards to protect against "patch pilots'' -- other dope dealers who steal crops.

And if "you've got a family hiking along and stumbling into this, that's not good,'' the official said.

John Walters, director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, says 75 percent to 80 percent of marijuana grown outdoors in the United States is on state or federal land. The Drug Enforcement Administration says more than 4.8 million marijuana plants were seized at outdoor sites in 2006.

Tighter border controls make it harder to smuggle marijuana into the United States, so more Mexican drug networks are growing crops here, Walters says.

Drug organizations use the Chicago area as a base for distributing marijuana across the Midwest, says DEA special agent Joanna Zoltay. But the problem is being seen across the country.

For example, the number of marijuana plants confiscated on public land in California grew from 40 percent of total seizures in 2001 to 75 percent in 2007.

A site operated by a Mexican organization with 16,742 marijuana plants was raided last month in North Cascades National Park in Washington state, says park Supt. Chip Jenkins. People living at the site cut trees, dammed creeks and left 1,000 pounds of trash, he says.

Thousands of marijuana plants were seized last month in Utah's Dixie National Forest, with a man named Ignacio Rodriguez charged with drug and immigration offenses, says Michael Root, a DEA special agent. And in July and August, officials seized more than 340,000 plants, some from Sequoia National Forest and Kings Canyon and Sequoia national parks.

Officers sometimes have to crawl through thickly wooded areas to get to the groves.

"They don't make it so anyone can see it," Waszak said.

Marijuana sometimes grows naturally -- so-called "ditch weed.'' Visitors to the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore were warned this summer that thousands of plants have sprouted there.

But Waszak said the weed in the Cook County preserves isn't growing wild.

"I'll tell you this, fertilizer bags and milk jugs don't grow in the Forest Preserve," Waszak said. "We concentrate on finding cartels or people growing excess plants that certainly are not for personal consumption."

Forest Preserve police team with the DEA to investigate major growing operations. Their probes typically start during the spring planting season, keeping watch on the crop and making busts before the plants are harvested.

When a crop is found, police take samples that are tested to measure its potency.

"Some of it is strong hybrids of marijuana,'' Waszak says.

With marijuana the most common illicit drug in America, marijuana growers feed a hungry market.

According to the recently released 2007 National Survey of Drug Use and Health, published by the federal Department of Health and Human Services, 40 percent of Americans, or about 100 million people age 12 or over, say they have smoked pot sometime in their lives. About 25 million say they have used marijuana in the last year. In the survey, an estimated 14.4 million Americans smoked pot in the last month.

For teens 12 to 17, about 6.7 percent smoked pot in the last 30 days -- down from 8.2 percent in 2002. For young adults ages 18 to 25, about 16 percent used marijuana in the last month. Of adults over the age of 26, about 4 percent smoked pot in the last 30 days.

In 2007, about 2.1 million people used marijuana for the first time -- about 6,000 a day. The mean age for first trying pot is about 17.

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Re: Pot farmers growing marijuana in public parks [IL] [Re: veggie]
    #8925966 - 09/13/08 10:03 PM (15 years, 6 months ago)

Fuck


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Re: Pot farmers growing marijuana in public parks [IL] [Re: GoldenCapAttack]
    #8926013 - 09/13/08 10:18 PM (15 years, 6 months ago)

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Re: Pot farmers growing marijuana in public parks [IL] [Re: veggie]
    #8926045 - 09/13/08 10:26 PM (15 years, 6 months ago)

Those cops are awfully close to that smoke and they forgot their gas masks. Aren't they scared they will get addicted, go mad, or crave heroin?

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Re: Pot farmers growing marijuana in public parks [IL] [Re: veggie]
    #8926078 - 09/13/08 10:34 PM (15 years, 6 months ago)

All of those areas the article mentioned are right by me!! Also those locations are pretty specific if you know this area. I need to get out hiking one of these days.

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Re: Pot farmers growing marijuana in public parks [IL] [Re: WonkierBubble]
    #8927228 - 09/14/08 04:17 AM (15 years, 6 months ago)

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All of those areas the article mentioned are right by me!! Also those locations are pretty specific if you know this area. I need to get out hiking one of these days.




make sure the mexicans don't see you :wink:

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Re: Pot farmers growing marijuana in public parks [IL] [Re: Jako]
    #8927286 - 09/14/08 04:56 AM (15 years, 6 months ago)

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Waszak said. "We concentrate on finding cartels or people growing excess plants that certainly are not for personal consumption."




Sounds like they're not interested in Joe with six plants hidden in his local forest, that's good news.

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Re: Pot farmers growing marijuana in public parks [IL] [Re: Gotbeef]
    #8928450 - 09/14/08 12:49 PM (15 years, 6 months ago)

you think they are blaming the "mexican drug cartel" just like how they got pot banned last time?  from racism.  saying it transformed mexicans and bla bla bla


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Re: Pot farmers growing marijuana in public parks [IL] [Re: djblackout]
    #8930452 - 09/14/08 08:22 PM (15 years, 6 months ago)

They didnt find my plants but then again I only grew 25, just enough to last me a year.


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Re: Pot farmers growing marijuana in public parks [IL] [Re: veggie]
    #8931207 - 09/14/08 11:18 PM (15 years, 6 months ago)

I say drug test those officers and arrest them.

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Re: Pot farmers growing marijuana in public parks [IL] [Re: veggie]
    #8931377 - 09/15/08 12:22 AM (15 years, 6 months ago)

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veggie said:

Last month, Forest Preserve police burned about 3,000 plants at Pioneer Woods near Palos Hills, gathered from half a dozen spots in the south suburbs.





hahaha i go to school right down the street and drive past those woods everytime i smoke in between classes

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Re: Pot farmers growing marijuana in public parks [IL] [Re: my_ankle_hurts]
    #9463527 - 12/19/08 05:54 PM (15 years, 3 months ago)

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my_ankle_hurts said:
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veggie said:

Last month, Forest Preserve police burned about 3,000 plants at Pioneer Woods near Palos Hills, gathered from half a dozen spots in the south suburbs.





hahaha i go to school right down the street and drive past those woods everytime i smoke in between classes




so moraine? i grew up in that neighborhood. back when i was growing huge lots of afgani's before they realised it could be grown there. my old lots were by kean ave back in 97. dam talk about nostalgia.


edit: i still know those woods like the back of my hand. every horse trail, deer trail, creek etc... even though it has been years. guess thats were the little red school house is geting there funding.

Edited by durban_poison (12/19/08 05:58 PM)

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Re: Pot farmers growing marijuana in public parks [IL] [Re: Gotbeef]
    #21223877 - 02/03/15 11:09 PM (9 years, 1 month ago)

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Gotbeef said:
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Waszak said. "We concentrate on finding cartels or people growing excess plants that certainly are not for personal consumption."




Sounds like they're not interested in Joe with six plants hidden in his local forest, that's good news.




I love this, hahaha...


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Re: Pot farmers growing marijuana in public parks [IL] [Re: Volition]
    #21233581 - 02/06/15 01:30 AM (9 years, 1 month ago)

With the U.S.-Mexico border being tightened, law enforcement is seeing more locally grown marijuana
Implying that most marijuana comes from Mexico? I don't think that's true.

Tighter border controls make it harder to smuggle marijuana into the United States, so more Mexican drug networks are growing crops here, Walters says.
So the cartels? I read some government produced paper that says otherwise.

A site operated by a Mexican organization...
They mean Juan and Pablo hired by an American.


Public lands and public property are misnomers.

Everyone assumes it's for their use but when things like this happen it proves it's not yours or mine it's the governments.  It really should be called government property. 

Try painting the road in front of your house pink and proclaim that your taxes pay for it and it's public property, therefore you own it. 

Reminds me of when people talk about the war in Iraq or Afghanistan and say "we." I don't know about your government or military connection but I sure didn't decide to murder some people I didn't know.

Edited by AEL1911 (02/06/15 01:45 AM)

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