Comments about ‘2 farm busts yield millions of dollars in marijuana’

If it were legal, it sure wouldn't be worth ~60 million on the street.

If pot were highly regulated as to strength and purity, we could make it mild enough to legalize, with the same restrictions as for liquor.

Tax it heavily, and think of the money we could gain for government revenue, instead of constantly spending taxpayers' money trying to bust growers and users.

Yeah, legalize it for sure. We can drive the street cost down. In fact, let's legalize Meth and make Oxycontin available to the general public without a prescription; this will drive down their street values also. Whoa dude! Slow down! Legalizing Marijuana, or other drugs, is not the answer. Comparisons to money savings (street value) for the long-term harm Marijuana, and other drugs, can cause to our society (esp., our youth) is offensive. If anything, let's have society (esp., families) work more diligently with law enforcement and be more involved to stop this "cancer."

I don't want brain dead pot heads working anywhere near me or driving cars on the roads. This and all mind killing drugs do not belong in society or lives of families.

I've never met a pot user who wasn't a danger to himself and more important, to others.

If it were legal, we wouldn't be concerned with the safety of innocent citizens accidentally running into a marijuana farm protected with armed thugs.

If you could control yourself and not have to get a buzz, you would not provide the demand needed for the drug to be grown. You, the pot head, are directly responsible for the deaths and criminal activity related to marijuana and other drug use. AS a user, you think everyone should be mellow and cool, but outside of your awareness you are causing people to die. Put that in your pipe and smoke it!

How about they leave the pot, and destroy the tobacco farms? Now that's progress!!!

Maybe they could send out a dog pack all over Utah and sniff out these farms?

We continue to "rot from within".....apparently we are too stupid to learn from the past....maybe these folks never went to school or listened.....money the supposed easy way....just got very expensive for those 'farmers'....but it still says toooooo much about our lack of character and morals as a society.

Given the deficits this state is running,
why was this not sold in Californica, and the
profit applied to worthy causes around here?
The Children's health program could have been
funded entirely.

Let marijuana be legal. Concentrate on the real threats to society, like meth. I don't buy the "gateway" argument. The market demands this product. Without a properly regulated production, people like these growers are harming the environment. And who knows what crap they put on these plants, crap that goes into user's lungs and non-users' environment. Blanket illegality is not the solution. It's feckless. Let's be smarter about this when it's a drug that's argument not that harmful to one's health. If people want to dope up their brains, that's their business as long as they stay off the roads.

Just legalize it already. I doesnt do any more harm than tobacco or alcohol. Tobacco and Alcohol kill thousands every year and yet you dont really hear of anyone dying of a Pot overdoes. It would save state and local governments the millions it spends on sending dealers and such to prision. It would lower the amount of bootlegging and private dealers if you legalized it and taxed the heck out of it. There wouldn't be half the problems we have now.

Shwag is not worth millions.
what a waste of my tax dollars!
Why dont they solve some real crime!

$60,000,000 in drugs, ZERO IN TAXES.

If this stuff was legal/regulated the police would be protecting the gardens to make sure they got their tax revenues

At 7.5% sale tax this would bring in $4.5 MILLION in tax dollars. Not to mention state and federal income taxes.

It appears everyone but me and the police is growing this stuff.

Where are the arrests in this case? Name some names here.
Law enforcement is either lacking or they aren't publishing the names.

The authorities should use satellite imagery to find pot farms on public land. The appearance of a pot farm from a satellite should be a lot different than the natural landscape.

Great Evidence against Federal Ownership or management of Utah Lands. Expanding growth of Pot industry in Utah on Federal Lands shows how poorly Federal Government manages property. Their ineptitude is dangerous, unhealthy, and reckless. Make Utah whole. Give Utah full statehood rights - give her back her land!

Re: Kevin

".......as long as they stay off the roads." This would happen about the time pigs fly.

Dopeheads are idiots and always will be.

Should adults be able to make decisions which you think harm them? Of Course. Mormons think that coffee and alchohol are not only damaging health wise, but also damning substances. Should we outlaw cigarettes, alchohol, and coffee? Of course not. Agency should allow the substances to be used as long as the use thereof doesn't infringe on my rights. The government should not be the vice squad. Our whole country would be more amicable amongst all viewpoints, not to mention more prosperous and free, if we just learned to live by the simple maxim "live and let live".

Dear vice patrol, the sixties called and they want their bong back.