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Huge marijuana farms busted in southern Utah

...so, apparently marijuana is easy to grow in the desert? Weird.

lame

With the slowdown in construction, what else are all of the move in workers going to do for money?? Answer: Same thing they did before coming to this area, crime and illegal activity.

now the price is gonna go through the roof.

Hello, Pine Valley is not the desert.

Another reason to follow the U.S. Constitution, which prohibits the ownership of land by the Federal Government except for certain specified purposes.
If the land were privately owned, we would either know who was responsible for the crops and could take care of that legally much more easily, or trespassers would be watched for by the land owners and evicted. Either way, we would have accountability.

I thought of doing this as an Eagle Scout project.

What a shame!

you can arrest people, fill up our jails then you can arrest more people and make certain jails are operating to capacity then you can apprehend even more people and build new jails to fill over and over again. Our politicians can't seem to get a better handle on these problems. It's the same thing followed by the same thing over and over again. The message is not getting anywhere. What's being done is not working. Any suggestions?

Wow, we must get this dangerous PLANT off the street. (sarcasm)

I have a suggestion - legalize it!

YAaaaWHOOOO!!

Burn it ALL!! EVERYWHERE!!

And put the creeps who grow it and smoke it IN JAIL!

Steve:

you know, if we shot or hung up growers, pushers, and dopers, I'm betting fewer people would be involved in the trade.

Anonymous:

were you growing as an eagle project or breaking up illegal farms?

This just is, the united states of america is covered in a landscape of fast food eateries, law enforcement can do nothing about this rapidly growing sector of obese crime.

Who did it?

Make it legal and watch the price fall and the supply go to nothing. This would have solved the problem years ago.

RE:Steve Just think what would happen if all of a sudden all the crooked lawyer/politicians were thrown into the slammer for their misdeads against the citizens of this U.S.A.?All the jails in this country could not hold them.They would have too be farmed out to foriegn jails.

don't critisize it

To Another Reason:
I won't even get into your strange twisting of what is actually in the U.S. Consitution. The point is that people grow pot on private land that isn't their own all the time all over this nation. Keeping people off one's land isn't as easy as you seem to think it is.
Legalization hasn't worked for alcohol, why does anyone think it would work for pot? If you think it has worked for alcohol then you aren't paying attention. How many people do drunk drivers kill every year? The list of social ills goes on and on and on. I'd rather be chasing them in the woods than cleaning up the carnage on the streets any day.

The same overly lame excuse over and over again. . .

Legalize it! Because booze is legal. Neither should be!

Legalize "it"??? you mean using of course? The illegal fields would be illegal even if the pot were.