How the drug war increased visitation to our national parks

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From Townhall.com

AP IMPACT: Drug gangs taking over US public lands

Not far from Yosemite's waterfalls and in the middle of California's redwood forests, Mexican drug gangs are quietly commandeering U.S. public land to grow millions of marijuana plants and using smuggled immigrants to cultivate them.

Pot has been grown on public lands for decades, but Mexican traffickers have taken it to a whole new level: using armed guards and trip wires to safeguard sprawling plots that in some cases contain tens of thousands of plants offering a potential yield of more than 30 tons of pot a year.

"Just like the Mexicans took over the methamphetamine trade, they've gone to mega, monster gardens," said Brent Wood, a supervisor for the California Department of Justice's Bureau of Narcotics Enforcement. He said Mexican traffickers have "supersized" the marijuana trade.

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[james joyce]

I would find this hilarious if they didn't kill people.

[Click Beetle]

I would find this hilarious if they didn't kill people.

National parks don't kill people.

Unless you count Yogi Bear, when he's drunk on whiskey.