California Cottonfields...

Where labor camps were filled with weary men with broken dreams.

California Cottonfields,

As close to wealth as daddy ever came. Merle Haggard

well, it used to be cotton now it's pot, maryjane, weed...the Sheriff's dept is spending all his time and my money searching for pot farms in the hills from Montecito to Santa Maria....then they swoop in, grab the plants, send them thru a wood chipper where the seeds and remnants get strewn about, to be carried away by the next wind...then grow again... an exercise in futility...a study in hysteria, silly waste of resources..but it looks good to the conservative base, on TV the cops saving the state from pot..saving the children..and now the Sheriff wants more money for more jails to put the pot smokers!
Obviously, pot should be legalized and regulated because the demand will always be there..this is a nation of druggies....Bevmo will cater to upscale druggies, Liquor stores cater to lowlife druggies, and when people realize that a clear mind will get you the best view, then the demand will drop...but not anytime soon, I imagine...
　
so I hear another rumor that Lanny is having real estate trouble in Humboldt County. It's pretty up there, with Mendocino and all, but it appears that pot houses are flourishing..and burning down. It seems the growers install non-code lighting to warm the plants indoors and when the circuits overload, the houses burn down! and it happens alot...along with home invasions to get the pot..
When you ask outsiders what comes to mind when they think of Humboldt County, a lot of them will say it's the great redwood forests. Or the rugged coast. Perhaps the Victorian homes of Ferndale and Eureka. Chances are a lot more of them will say marijuana. Pot -- legal and illegal -- is a fact of life on the North Coast. "People laugh at me all the time because I say we're here to make Humboldt County safer," Hanson said. "Over the years people's property rights have been violated. You can own 40 acres of land, live in LA and come up to, let's say Honeydew, to enjoy your summer. And you're ordered off your land because someone was trespassing, growing dope on your land."
When the unit finds an unmanned garden on someone's property or public lands they decide whether to stake it out and wait for the farmer to return.
"It's common knowledge that we do stake out marijuana grows," Hanson said. "We confirm them, deploy officers and wait for a suspect to come in and either tend their plants or show some sort of cultivation. They're videotaped and arrested immediately."
now as for Dr. Lanny, the rumor is he's got tax , foreclosure, tenants-with-dope problems and one of his housees on the auction block just caught on fire in Humboldt County...and they say all the girls up there have strange red eyes....