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"It's Very Extreme" - Drought & Drug Cartels Drain California's Aquifers At Record Rate
"If there's no water for people to live, and you don’t have the basic necessities of life, your population is going to leave," warns the emergency services manager of one California town, warning that as the drought continues (and is not set to ease anytime soon), "you could see the economy of this area just decimated." But as farmers face the catastrophe with "water levels dropping at an incredibly rapid rate in some places - like 100 ft a year - 10 times expected," there is another drain on the dry state's water sources. As The FT reports, "Marijuana cultivation is the biggest drought-related crime we’re facing right now," with up to 80 million gallons of water per day stolen by heavily armed marijuana cartels.
Lieutenant John Nores Jr estimates that each of the state’s 2,000-odd cartel pot farms contains an average of 5,000 plants, and that each one sucks up between eight and 11 gallons of water a day, depending on the time of year. That means at least 80m gallons of water – enough for more than 120 Olympic-size swimming pools – is probably being stolen daily in a state that in some parts is running dry as a three-year-old drought shrinks reservoirs, leaves fields fallow and dries wells to the point that some 1,300 people have had no tap water in their homes for months.
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“Marijuana cultivation is the biggest drought-related crime we’re facing right now,” says Lt Nores as he pokes at a heap of plastic piping the growers used to divert water from a dried-up creek near the plantation.
The theft of 80m gallons of water a day by heavily armed marijuana cartels is undoubtedly a serious concern, not least when the entire state is affected by drought and 58 per cent is categorised as being in “exceptional drought”, as defined by the government-funded US Drought Monitor.
However, this is a tiny fraction of the water used legally every day...
and towns across California plunge into chaos...
The crisis is more severe because a decline in snowfall has compounded problems caused by the lack of rain. The state’s mountain snowpack was just 18 per cent of its average earlier this year, a situation scientists say could be repeated as the climate warms.
As a result eight major reservoirs were last week holding less than half their average storage for this time of year.
Reservoir levels sank worryingly when a bad drought hit California in 1976-77, but there were fewer than 22m people in the state then, compared with 38.3m now.
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In a normal year, aquifers supply about a third of the state’s water. In a drought, that can rise to as much as 60 per cent. But one of the most alarming aspects of this drought is that groundwater levels are plummeting.
“Water levels are dropping at an incredibly rapid rate in some places, like 100ft a year,” says Michelle Sneed, a hydrologist with the US Geological Survey who monitors groundwater in the Central Valley. “It is very extreme. Ordinarily, talking with hydrologists, if you would talk about a well dropping 10ft a year that would really get somebody’s attention, like wow! Really? Ten feet? And now we’re 10 times that.”
The depletion of this vital resource is not just a concern because it is so difficult to refill some aquifers when drought eventually subsides. It is also creating extraordinary rates of subsidence because as the groundwater disappears the land above it can sink. In one part of the valley, land has been subsiding by almost a foot a year, which Ms Sneed says is among the fastest rates anywhere in the world.
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The town of East Porterville has more pressing groundwater worries. At least 1,300 people in the town rely for drinking and bathing water on wells that have gone dry as the drought has deepened.
“We ran out of water in June,” says Donna Johnson, a 72-year-old retired counsellor who delivers water to dozens of dry households from the back of her pick-up truck.
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But the severity of this drought finally led to a package of measures signed into law in September requiring local agencies to monitor and manage wells, or face state intervention. Some critics say it is too little too late: many local agencies will have five to seven years to come up with plans, and until 2040 to implement them. Still, it is a lot better than nothing, say others.
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That is small comfort when the latest outlook from the US Climate Prediction Center suggests the drought “will likely persist or intensify in large parts of the state” this winter.
“If there’s no water for people to live, and you don’t have the basic necessities of life, your population is going to leave,” says Andrew Lockman, the emergency services manager responsible for East Porterville. “Our primary economic driver is agriculture. If there’s no water to water crops, we’re not going to have any agriculture business, so you could see the economy of this area just decimated.”
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Don't come here we need ours for moonshine
my roomate's ex-wife makes $83 an hour on the internet . She has been unemployed for 7 months but last month her check was $20054 just working on the internet for a few hours. visit the site... yelptrade.com
Can she suck-start a Harley, or what?
@LOONEY
not a real safe time to be a billionare...is it...
Water, it's a helluva drug.
Water is heavy Mr calculator, just how do they manage to suck dry that giant amount of water? On their backs.
Those evil weed growers, huh?
I'm surprised they haven't found a way to blame Putin.
Maybe we should send them some UHauls, some luggage ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0q4o58pKwA
Regards,
Cooter
Listen Coots.
This whole California USSA drought thing is bullshit. California is looking for Federal "FUNDS" to save them from collapse.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWzW1KhVH_A
this shit is deliberate.
In my little rural dry part of the People's Republic of Other People's Stuff, for the last 3 to 5 or so days, the spraying has resumed, big time. Over the same time, the forecast has become for rain over the weekend.
Another fucking coincidence thingamajigiebob
My ass.
8-11 gallons/day/plant? Puullleeeaaassee! MJ grows well on way less than 1/2 gal/day/plant - I call BS on this one...
Have to change the water on the plants (Hydroponics), Outdoor plants don't need as much.
doubled posted.
Cry me a river. Oh, wait.
Weed water. Weed water......hard choice.......
Weed beer. Weed beer.....
So all the pot growers don't use enough water in a day to fill Atherton's swimming pools? Are there more than 365 towns with more pools than that in CA? Those folks don't have a water shortage. They have a self-induced chlorine pollution problem.
Smell Bangalore:
http://www.geoengineeringwatch.org/engineered-drought-catastrophe-target...
That's Mister Bangladesh Bob to you Sir.
Edgar Cayce, in one of his trances, predicted the inland sea of san Joaquin. Sucking the aquifer dry prior to a good San Andreas shaker ought to do the trick. Shake, rattle and roll and the tide comes in through the Golden Gate..., for about three weeks straight. SHARKS IN MODESTO! (Feeding on... unsuccessful swimmers.)
How many motherfucking $Trillions have been stolen by the MIC (also heavily armed) and the banks (backed by increasingly heavily armed police, even the goddamned Fed has police)?
The fucking drug cartels are pikers by comparison.
Ok, wait until they come by your house and "ask" for a contribution for one thing or another. Will you refuse them or become a hood ornament for their vehicle? Just asking.
If you refuse the same when the goverenment comes knocking, they'll murder you too... or at the very least steal your home and kick you to the curb. gotta keep that pension fund alive you know.
It's bullshit. $20,054 divided by $83 is like 242 hours worth of work for a month. I have worked that much in a month, but even after you get paid - you feel like a used whore (metaphorically speaking, of course.)
On backpage or Everytime that fucking prudential ad pops up.
Nailgun Alert!
Dominique Strauss-Kahn’s business partner has committed suicide, in Tel Aviv of all places.
Looney
P.S. Here's the link, paron my French ;-)
http://www.afp.com/fr/node/2976547
Yeah, they called me in on that job a few days ago. Have nail gun, will travel.
Wow, bad week to be an elite French banker. One does a header into a Russian snow plow and another into the Tel Aviv pavement.
Hollande must be devastated ;-)
Wonder how many nails that guy had to use to off himself?
Long coil nails.
Roughly translated:
The French-Israeli businessman Thierry Leyne, associate of former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn, committed suicide Thursday in Tel Aviv, do we learned from his relatives.
Main partner of DSK in an investment fund established in October 2013 and called LSK (Leyne Strauss-Kahn), Thierry Leyne, private banker, had a residence in Tel Aviv.
Engineering graduate from the Technion in Haifa (northern Israel), Mr. Leyne, 48, has spent his entire career in the financial world, including France, Israel and Luxembourg.
His family said he would be defenestrated by jumping off one of the tallest buildings in Tel Aviv. The reasons for this move were not disclosed.
In April, Mr. Leyne told AFP stated at the time of the creation of an investment fund Global Investment DSK created with Strauss-Kahn that it was "a very ambitious project," with the goal of reaching a size of $ 2 billion.
Mr. Leyne pointed out that "many people (were) applicants for the economic analysis of DSK," which he described as "capable of long-term strategy by identifying key trends but also to be able to react quickly to events that may arise. "
Thierry Leyne was head of financial firm Assya Capital, established especially in Tel Aviv, Monaco, Luxembourg and Romania, and founded in 1994.
In 2010, he merged this thriving group with Global Equities Capital Markets, which offers its customers, including Eastern Europe, the full range of financial services, private banking investment advice through the wealth management. By partnering with Dominique Strauss-Kahn in October 2013, it was renamed the LSK and Partners Group.
mib-fka / dlm / ct
did he jump or was he pushed?
i logged back on just to junk you..
TYLER...please hit your 'ATOMIC JUNK BUTTON' on our keyboard for this fool...
not the 'donkey punch' one..
the 'CZAR BOMB!' one...yeah, that should teach him....
A drunk russian on a snow plow works too.
Just sayin' ... gotta keep the powder dry for the real trolls ...
Regards,
Cooter
lol
Good thing you upvoted yourself.
Let us know when the check is for one billion dollars per month and the check clears.
Thats about right for a high priced Escort
My cousins x husbands Xcon brother makes 85 hr making moonshine and you can too !! Revenooersuck.gov
you seem to be hip to what goes on in the backwoods of Tennessee. you think it's a coincidence that Jasper's distillery is located in a dry country, yet is the best selling whiskey in Amer'ka?
Jasper knew what he was doing.
She must be an indoor grower.
does it bother your roommate that his ex-wife is a whore?
Not really. He can still get some for $5 and a pint of 'shine.
We are still required to have green lawns in CA or suffer Financial penalties, no jail time, yet.
I love how on one hand they are blaming global warming for there being less of a snow pack each winter, yet the same publications will blame the extremely cold winter for the shitty economic numbers. It can't be both at the same time. This Orwellian doublespeak is getting tiring.
True, but then any argument saying 'they' are both or/partially right or/wrong or 'you' are right/partially right or wrong/partially wrong makes any real facts on this situation psycologically clusterfucked... no wonder everyone is at each others throats concerning the state of the biosphere!
Something's rotten in the state of Denmark, let's find a way to agree on what that might be before we drive each other more insane than we already are.
I got a message from the munis last week saying that my trash cans were violating code by being visible from the street, behind a gated fence and surrounded by bouganvilleas, all of which happen to be behind a gated fence down the road... and that i'd better fix that shit pronto. i struggled to keep the expensive IPA i had in my mouth from bursting forth when i read the letter. welcome to CA.
Just leave your empties out on the road. If you drink as much as I do, the swarm of bums picking them up will mask the trash cans and you get a bonus in that they won't bang around raiding your 'can at midnight.
KARMA?
In between self-worship and endless pools and multi-millions contracts for idiots like Tommy Cruz?
Maybe Karma will finally flow to origins? Hey Tommy?
Meanwhile, San Diego County has more than 100 craft brewers even though virtually all water has to be imported. Hmmm.
Beer's recyclable cuz you always piss it all back. So it better stay exempt.
This story is such bullshit. My uncle's 'farm' was contained in dozens of kiddie pools and the water never left the plastic.
Oh cry me a river....
/s
"Marijuana cultivation is the biggest drought-related crime we’re facing right now," with up to 80 million gallons of water per day stolen by heavily armed marijuana cartels.
Seriously? 80 MILLION gallons? C'mon.....
And how many gallons of water does it take Nestle corporation to produce 1 kcal again?
Bull Shit.
I have no use for pot, but the amount used for a few indoor grow rooms is comparable to pissing in the ocean.
Scale matters, and a mind is a terrible thing, not to have.
I live in Colorado, I have a few friends who grow so I know....hydroponic system growing 10 large plants takes 2 gallons of water in circulation, have to add a bit now and then and maybe change it weekly, that's it though. No idea how they're getting this 10 gallons per plant daily nonsense.
I call BS on that whole part. 2000 farms with 5000 plants each with each plant using 10 gallons a day? What are they 45 feet tall?
I could water my whole garden with water hogging plants (tomatoes) and it would be maybe 10 gallons a day. That was probably 20-40 plants.
And if they know how many farms there are, and how many plants per farm, would it not be that tough to bust/burn/bomb them? Every year we have a field or two found local and it is rather easy to bust them.
pods
I was checking out those systems online for growing vegetables for prepping. You can set up greenhouse types or these cabinets you can put in your garage.
I was interested in tomatoes, cucumbers and lettuce.
The govt will not like these home grow hydroponic cabinets for pot because they cannot tax it.
Same thing I guess with sales tax on vegetables though some states do not tax food sales.
The only reason they legalized it was tax money and Soros wants people even dumber.
Shit I drink enough beer I could keep those watered, easy. I should rent myself out...gotta be a short drive, though. Real short.
Scale does matter. Who da Fuck uses "gallons" at the municipal or state level?
Foot Acres.
Or at least m3
If they aren't smart enough to understand units, then they probably can't fully wrap their mind around a number like 80 million anyway.
Acre-feet, Redneck. Geez.
And that was way back at 1:30am my time, you should see how whacked my brain is now... (nice catch)
About 80 million
I was thinking this... Nestle, golf courses, watering lawns, and weed too!
You can buy Nestle 'Pure Life' water here in NH for less than you can buy local spring water in the supermarkets. That's if you're dumb enough, because all of the tap water (save the fluoride, in some areas) is fine to drink. Fuck, you could get your daily water intake from most any river or lake up here - and here we are drinking yours, in a time of dire need.
Corporate bullshit.
Seriously? 80 MILLION gallons? C'mon.....
If the government knows that figure, it should be easy to track the pot growers down and have at it. The article is implying the government has the information but don't want to do anything about it. Think they may be making sumtin' on the side?
Exactly. How anyone could calculate 80 million gallons going to an underground industry, assuming grow-ops aren't legal yet, is beyond me. And to claim it's "stolen by heavily armed cartels" is just plain stupid.
Do they show up in chevy's and demand water at gunpoint? The claims are a real stretch.
Do you seriously think they're trying all that hard to shut them down?
That's of no concern. My inquiring mind wants to know how these "heavily armed bandits" are stealing my water, dammit!
Stealing is such an ugly word. Let's frame it like this: the water is going to the highest bidder. And I bet the profits on pot cultivation are a lot higher than carrots or soybeans. Or people watering their lush green lawns in the middle of the desert.
Definitely no gun and mask involved in this "stealing".
Between the Geo engineered drought and all the land they are selling to the Chinese I would say they are trying very hard, and to add to that one of the Rothschilds family of vampires is on the board of PG&E
It's already called THE GREAT CEASAR SALAD VS. WEED WARS!!!
80 million gallons is nothing – like taking a thimble full of water out of a bathtub.
One pot plant takes about 1/2 to 1 gal of water a day for 100 days. It can yield about 4-6 oz. Worst case in a season 100 gal of water can yield 4 oz in a season. An oz is about $500, so thats $2000/100 gal, or $20/gal. That means that 8,000,000,000 gal (80 million a day for 100 days) will yield a crop with a street value of $160 Billion.
California GDP is $1.95 Trillion. I call BS.
I logged in just to call BS to your math. $500 oz? Really? Like the grower is gonna sit on the corner and sling zs. They be lucky to get 1/2 that
As the old joke goes, " can you tell me which street that is so I can sell there?"
Who owns the water? Detroit?
"Lieutenant John Nores Jr estimates that each of the state’s 2,000-odd cartel pot farms contains an average of 5,000 plants, and that each one sucks up between eight and 11 gallons of water a day, depending on the time of year. That means at least 80m gallons of water – enough for more than 120 Olympic-size "
it's a stupid comment...never seen a plant that could drink 8-11 gallons of water per day.
the big bad boys have no opponents. certainly there is no section of the fbi or cia or media to turn to, there really is no one.
The Choom Gang
Dear Californiaians, We have so much water that it just flows out of any pipe you place in the ground. Our houses are cheaper and the lot sizes are larger.
Sincerely Detroit
p.s. You will need to buy guns.
I'm not reading any downside into anything your just wrote. You do understand CA residents cannot own real semi-auto rifles with deatchable mags, right? A DMZ like Detroit is a step up for Californians, just sayin, yo.
NO. They tried to get that passed but failed. Also tried to make you sign a register with thumb print (like a notary book) to buy ammo, as well
BizAsNormal
They do that in Sacramento. Have to go to Elk Grove to get ammo anonymously. At least I can still buy silver without ID. And beer, too. Sometimes its good to look 20 years older than your age.
life is a challenge my friend, step up to it.
They have horizontal consolidation tax free franchise from growth to distribution-completely tax free
Can't they take some of those freshly printed FRNs and buy some?
I like how they blame the Mexicans
They're confused and talking about the wrong 'grass' - more water gets used on lawns on golf courses in CA.
http://www.vice.com/read/save-water-ban-golf-815
"Looking statewide, the numbers really get fun. California is second only to Florida in the number of golf courses it has: 921. Together, those courses use as much water as 2.8 million people, or about 7 percent of the state's population. While middle-class homeowners risk fines for watering their lawns, millions upon millions of gallons of water are wasted every day on a boring leisure sport for the wealthy."
As a long term Californian I've said many times that we will know our government is taking the drought seriously when the golf courses turn brown.
Until that time it's all politics and damage control and posturing.
The golf courses are already turning brown. The great, famous PasoTiempo has only green tee boxes and greens. Fairways are dirt. Many are in fact, closing as wells have dried up. Not as gluttonous as many think ....
....UNTIL you get to Southern Cal, notably LA where water usage is way up!
10%+
And it all comes from Central Valley via canals .... Stealing people's water from up North to buy Votes down South.
And the state has a ballot measure to spend a bazillion more... supposedly to create more water... but it's just to ship more for votes.
Assholes
No Shit!
So shouldn't the drought be driving out the marijuana growers too?
Well if a pig is saying its true, it must be true. They hardly ever lie, amirite?
We should make water illegal. That will dramatically increase the supply of it. And it would be cool to drink water.
Reverse Grapes of Wrath.
Cheap labor migration soon to flee CA Dust Bowl straight into the new Great Depresion and Black Plague, and WWIII.
glad I got out in 2012
WHY IN THE FUCK DON'T THE FEDS JUST GO IN AND TAKE THESE WETBACKS OUT. duh
I guess the FED agencies have no time for dealing with 'heavily armed drug gangs'....I guess molesting granny at the airport is far more important.
exactly
The Feds are too busy chasing down (non existant) terrorists.
The feds brought them here, why would they make them leave?
why would they hurt their friends?
Um...because they get a cut?
With all this cyber security and DHS, 'heavily armed drug cartels' just steal 80 million gallons of water every day, but granny gets strip searched at the airport? Everything is seriously fucked!
WHY IN THE FUCK DON'T THE FEDS JUST GO IN AND TAKE THESE WETBACKS OUT. duh
+1
Finally a solution that makes total sense.
Are you serious?
Right....Blame the weed....As they divert freshwater to the ocean to save the minnows....
Bullshit.
All the Chinese landlords in New York are waiting.
Not only are they draining the aquifers and poisoning the state and national parks with their marijuana grows but they've destroyed 100,000s of acres of California agricultural land with their meth labs.
34 million green cards ordered by Obongo administration..
Report From Occupied America: Sunday in the Park with Jorge
July 22, 2007 Steve Sailer
Park Inflation–Obama Inflates The San Gabriels To National Monument Status … In The Name Of Diversity! By Steve Sailer October 11, 2014, 12:27
In the 1992 Los Angeles riots there were almost as many Mexican looters as blacks.
"Mexico is a jungle, as are increasing swaths of today’s America. In 1950, very little of America was jungle, but for over 50 years, a powerful movement has sought, with great success, to turn most of the country into one."
I had to double check and make sure Rahm Emanuel didn't write this article.
It's those evil pot growers damn-it... Never let a good crisis go to waste.
Oddly enough, California is looking more & more like Mexico everyday. Strange.
Dude, that's gotta suck when you get cottonmouth!
Are we at war with Eurasia or with Eastasia this week?
Are we at war on drugs or on homelessness this week?
ISIS! OMG those bastids! Gotta spend $20 billion tomorrow on them evildoers!
Where have you been? We have always been at war with Eastasia. Eurasia has always been our beloved ally. The wars on drugs and homelessness were rolled into the glorious everlasting war on freedom-hating last week, along with the wars on gun violence and disease. Don't forget to line up for your government injection after you turn in your guns.
Pay no attention to the delusional dissident comment listed below this official communique.
We are at war with Easteurasian homeless drugs. We have always been at war with Easteurasian homeless drugs.
(narrows eyes and lowers voice to a smooth hiss)
You're not trying to suggest something different, are you, comrade?
July and August are the only months marijuana plants use anything close to 10 gals a day. June and September closer to a 1/2 a gal a day. 100 times more water is used for frost protection in Napa,Sonoma, and Mendocino wine vineyards.
8 gallons per day per plant? That is so inaccurate that it's hard to take anything being reported here seriously.
I drove by Shasta Lake and Trinity Lake about a month ago. They are bone dry, for sure. But not because of the Pot being grown.
: a group of businesses that agree to fix prices so they all will make more money
Keep Mexico out of this.
And who is buying said maryjane? If we American would lay off the weed the freakin cartels and mafia could stick all that weed up their asses, but no, we all think grass is cool, it's ok, etc. I think anything you put in your body that fucks it up is neither necessary nor good. But that's just me.
No...if we Americans would stop trying to pass laws that micro-manage every aspect of our lives, those cartels and mafia could stick all that weed up their asses because that would be all they could DO with it...pot would be growing as ditch-weed everywhere, and have zero market value.
If only you could understand that this would not result in any appreciable increase in regular pot smokers we'd be able to git 'er done.
The temptation to exercise control is just so great in some. We need to purge our law codes of ALL of these moral restrictions. The law should deal exclusively with civil or criminal conflicts, the settlement of property disputes, matters of contract law, things like that. Personal behavior should only be dealt with by law when it causes direct harm to society, ie: the drunk getting behind the wheel, etc. No law should be passed regarding the drinking, or what is being drunk.
you missed my point, or maybe i did not make it clear... not talking about any laws here, just folks not smoking, snorting, fixing because its plain stupid...haha, i know, good luck with that.
Hey, I can't understand the horny types who can't keep it in their pants, or keep their panties on, but it's obvious they are having fun, so as long as they don't rub up on ME, more power to 'em...
The law-passing is just part of their ideal world though. A system where every exception and situation is fully covered under the law to the point where everything is more or less automated and requires little if any human input. That's what their bullshit system results in.
Over here, I got a police department to make an error on a document in my favor. In the US, this would result in me winning the game. A government body made an ackowledgement which is against policy and therefore, the rest of the government must be held to that "fact" which was created. Over here... I pointed this out when processing some paperwork and hoping for it to maybe come true. Result: "Haha, no, we don't care what they did, it was wrong and we don't recognize it... we'll go ahead and process it though without making you go back and get it done again the right way though".
In the US, it would be lawsuit material, over here... eh, just an innocent mistake, no reason to crucify anyone, no harm done.
I feel bad for the small farmers, but the big agricultural interests are going to get a taste of the free market, and how it relates to the allocation of resources.
There's a LOT of money in weed, and don't think that fact has escaped those willing to capitalize on it. Maybe Monsanto starts to get muscled out of some territory because pot has a better return than tomatoes for these cash-starved smaller towns, or because pot growers have as much money for bribes as big ag now...
Laws passed favoring corporate farms can just as easily be repealed should that prove more profitable.
“Marijuana cultivation is the biggest drought-related crime we’re facing right now,” says Lt Nores as he pokes at a heap of plastic piping the growers used to divert water from a dried-up creek near the plantation.
Wrong, asshole. The biggest drought related crime is big agri-business's subsidized water purchases by .....wait for it.....the US taxpayer via big water projects that have no hope of ever being paid off as criminally amortized.
Wake the fuck up.
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somebody's toes got stepped on. (wake the fuck up).
A negative by a negative is a positive.
Just sayin.
Let's shut off water to the useless 1,000's of golf courses before messing with withholding water from the Pot crop. Cannabis is California's #1 cash crop. Golf is a declining sport that literally wastes millions of gallons each year.
Yea, my last drive by I recall Palm Springs looked as green as ever.
Cash crop? Really, we deserve to destroy ourselves....
Pols and crats steal wealth from people to create profits for themselves and a beholden society based on cheap water. When the cheap water supply is threatened, the pols and crats leverage their control of water into more controls over their minions, and profits too.
Reminds me of how one goes about capturing wild pigs, except with cheap water not corn.
An American, not US subject.
As long as I see lawn sprinklers running, it can't be that bad.
"Marijuana cultivation is the biggest drought-related crime we’re facing right now,"
That's retarded.
Dirty mud people illegal importation is the actual biggest drought related crime the CA government is committing right now
Yeah, hell. Sell the pot and go buy water from the grocery store. Let's see: 5000 farms producing 100 lbs a month/1600 oz at $250/oz amounts to about $400,000 bucks a month/farm; Evian water at 16.00/gallon, yields 25,000 gallons of Californicated water x 5000 farms: that's 125 million gallons a month, enough to replace what the illegal heavily-armned cartel pot growers use (everybody already knows who bought up all the good pot farmland - the Big Tobacco Cartel), and add 2 billion dollars a month to the state economy, much of it imported money from the California Hinterland (aka the rest of the globe)...
I don't see what all the fuss is about.
Maybe the Feds should stop trying to protect the Delta Smelt by diverting snow melt into the Pacific Ocean...
"The deliberate decision by this administration in 2009 and 2010 to divert hundreds of billions of gallons of water away from the Central Valley destroyed a quarter million acres of the most productive farmland in America..."
http://mcclintock.house.gov/2011/01/water-water-everywhereexcept-for-cal...
Keep in mind this was penned in January 2011...and look where we're at today.
Here's the latest update from October 1, 2014.
Pacific Legal Foundation asks SCOTUS to weigh in on Delta smelt water cutbacks
http://blog.pacificlegal.org/2014/plf-asks-scotus-weigh-delta-smelt-wate...Gotta get that inflation rate up one way or another, one hand scratches the other....
Like if there was only dirt, then no water would be used. But if there were trees instead of pot plants, would they still be thieves?
Pecos Bill could fix it.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9QIOZAsCxZ8
I feel another POT TAX coming.... wait for it!
Its the Rothschild's water. They want it back.
They want obedient workers. Obedient workers. Obedient workers. Obedient workers.
Who gives a shit about those dumb fucking Californians if they can't figure out that they need water to grow crops and marijuana is definitely one of them.
If they can't get the job done to feed people and grow edible/efficacious crops, well then, fuck them.
Stupid dumbasses.
Get your shit together and forget about your stupid ass stupid shit.
Jesus H. Chriist on a Crutch.
Get your shit together.
Food is your cure and your medicine. An herb that has been in the pharmacopia in 4000 different pharmaceuticals prior to the Volstead Act has merit, validity, veracity, legitimacy, downright good for you and anybody with a beating heart will tell you the same.
Figure it out.
Buy yourself a six pack of Stone IPA and drink it all.
Removing everyone who isn't there legally should take a lot of strain off the aquifers and the treasury...
Yet somehow they still have the time to give me a speeding ticket...geeezzz
Baloney, nearly all the marijuana grown in CA is grown in warehouses under artificial lights, so the environmental impact is much worse.
The real draw is the 10,000,000 illegal aliens
d'Murphy was d'opt'mist too suckahs...
They are looking for a reason or a cover to send in the alphabet agencies and fuck with the MJ growers.
Well, if I only had so much water and I could either water my grass or water my grass, I'd certainally water my grass.
will leftists give up their medical marijuana to save the planet? Even if it only saves one child......
This article is the only good news that I've read all day.