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Originally Posted by 4RE KLR
That is exactly my point Jamo  
There are not a lot of Forest in Dallas, Texas (in case you don't know)
We have meth labs everywhere. I saw on the news the other day that a "roach coach" was selling meth with his daily lunch meals.
The guy had a pretty damn nice lunch truck. But I guess if your making that kind of money you have to launder it somewhere. |
Unfortunately, I've been to Dallas...them groupings of overgrown weeds around the countryside ain't forests.
Actually, alot of it has to do with the geography and political subdivisions. See, we have these things called mountains...big phuking mountains. Makes travel and visual surveillance just a bit tough. That's why things like condors and Bigfoots (Bigfeet?) live around here. The other thing is that, unlike a good chunk of the Rockies or them foothills out east, most of our forested mountains are in a slew of national parks, national forests or other designated wilderness areas...not real accessible to folks except ranchers, hunters, packers and the like, and they sort of have the same view of keeping folks out as the growers do. When the phuking demos kicked out the lumber companies, it did two things...got a bunch of folks who used to hang around up there for a long time gone, and it increased the underbrush. He!!, Kit Carson couldn't move through there today. Finally, with satellites, they've closed most of the fire towers. That's why the big increase in growing herb up there...it's phuking perfect. I ain't getting this from newspaper articles. Coming straight from folks I know on the federal-state joint tasks forces. My own daughter accompanied them on a little hunting-gathering day trip for Awnold along with reps from Feinstein's office and some House members. This is what the guys on the ground assplained.
Plus...our dirt just makes for better herb.
With our orchards and vineyards on the Valley floor, you just can't see the labs. Drive next to an orange orchard or a vineyard and you'll be lucky to see 3 or 4 rows in. Put up a lab during the post harvest season when nobody has a reason to be in there, and you'll have several days to cook up a batch and move on. Unfortunately, my clients end up having to pull the vines and trees out for a good 100 feet or so around the perimeter, and remove the dirt down several feet...all at their expense.
Anyway, the herb ranches don't bother me as much as the meth labs, which are probably operating in every state except maybe New Jersey, where the ground is more lethal than chemicals they use to cook the meth.
