Mexican Drug Cartels Find a Lucrative New Home in California State Parks

The damage they do to society is well-known, but drug traffickers, it turns out, also aren’t the most environmentally-minded campers. Law enforcement officials say that a wildfire now raging in Santa Barbara’s Los Padres National park, burning more than 136 square miles, was sparked by a cooking fire started by the hirelings of a Mexican drug cartel which was growing thousands of marijuana plants in the remote canyons. Far from an isolated incident, the Los Padres fire, according to law enforcement agents, highlights an alarming trend: the invasion of California wilderness and parklands by armed Mexican drug cartels

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Government runs nation’s only legal pot garden

Here, in what could be called the Fort Knox of dope, Mahmoud ElSohly waits patiently as an assistant unlocks the stainless steel door to a climate-controlled vault. Once inside, under the gaze of security cameras and a blinking motion sensor, another scientist pries open the lid of a large cardboard barrel, opens a large plastic bag and digs his hand into the vat of meticulously manicured marijuana. We are in the Coy W

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George Obama Arrested

Obama’s Kenyan relative arrested on drug duty NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Kenyan drug squad say the half member of President Barack Obama has been arrested for possession of marijuana. Area law enforcement agency principal Joshua Omokulongolo said George Obama was picked up Saturday and was being held at the Huruma riot police post in the […]

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