Massive Marijuana Field in San Diego

(AP)  Sheriff's deputies have discovered a marijuana field in the Cleveland National Forest that authorities are calling one of the largest illegal-growth operations found in San Diego County.

A sheriff's deputy spotted the field containing as many as 51,000 plants late last week. The final plants were removed Thursday from the remote mountain area south of Paso Picacho campground in Cuyamaca Rancho State Park.

San Diego Union coverage

CBSNews.com report: Marijuana Nation


U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration Agent Amy Roderick says the plants covered the size of a football field and could produce 25 to 50 tons of marijuana, with a potential street value of $300 million.

Roderick says most of the pot will be destroyed with a portion kept as evidence.

Officials say there have been no arrests.

[Antinomian]

Debaters debate the two wars as if Nixon?s civil war on Woodstock Nation didn?t yet run amok. One need not travel to China to find indigenous cultures lacking human rights or to Cuba for political prisoners. America leads the world in percentile behind bars, thanks to ongoing persecution of hippies, radicals, and non-whites under banner of the war on drugs. If we?re all about spreading liberty abroad, then why mix the message at home? Peace on the home front would enhance global credibility.

The drug czar?s Rx for prison fodder costs dearly, as lives are flushed down expensive tubes. There?s trouble on the border. My shaman?s second opinion is that psychoactive plants are God?s gift. God didn?t screw up. Canadian Marc Emery sold seeds that enable American farmers to outcompete cartels with superior domestic herb. He is being extradited to prison, for doing what government wishes it could do, reduce demand for Mexican.

The constitutionality of the CSA (Controlled Substances Act of 1970) derives from an interstate commerce clause. Only by this authority does it reincarnate Al Capone, endanger homeland security, and throw good money after bad. Official policy is to eradicate, not tax, the number-one cash crop in the land. America rejected prohibition, but it?s back. Apparently, SWAT teams don?t need no stinking amendment. Father, forgive those who make it their business to know not what they do.

Nixon promised that the Schafer Commission would support the criminalization of his enemies, but it didn?t. No matter, the witch-hunt was on. No amendments can assure due process under an anti-science law without due process itself. Psychology hailed the breakthrough potential of LSD, until the CSA halted all research and pronounced that marijuana has no medical use, period.

The RFRA (Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993) allows Native American Church members to eat peyote, which functions like LSD. Americans shouldn?t need a specific church membership to obtain their birthright freedom of religion. Denial of entheogen sacrament to any American, for mediation of communion with his or her maker, precludes free exercise of religious liberty.

Freedom of speech presupposes freedom of thought. The Constitution doesn?t enumerate any governmental power to embargo diverse states of mind. How and when did government usurp this power to coerce conformity? The Mayflower sailed to escape coerced conformity. Legislators who would limit cognitive liberty lack jurisdiction.

Common-law must hold that adults are the legal owners of their own bodies. The Founding Fathers decreed that the right to the pursuit of happiness is inalienable. Socrates said to know your self. Mortal lawmakers should not presume to thwart the intelligent design that molecular keys unlock spiritual doors. Persons who appreciate their own free choice of path in life should tolerate seekers? self-exploration.

[caddillackid1]

I'd like to know where they are burning it...so i can go sit near it and enjoy the smoke!! I luv weed!!!!!!

[babooph]

I thought San Diego was a pot field?

[jgg00009]

would type more but I'm going to san diego

[gunownerdan]

Marijuana has been illegal for over 70 years and today it's America's #1 cash crop. Drug gangs and drug cartels are richer and more powerful than ever before while marijuana is stronger and easier to get than ever before. You can even grow your own marijuana fairly easily inside a closet or in your backyard. Millions of people already do!
If this isn't enough proof that marijuana prohibition is a total failure then try to learn something from alcohol prohibition in the 1920's when gangsters like Al "Scarface" Capone ruled the streets with machine guns!
Now the same thing is happening in Mexico all because of drug prohibition.
Please learn more:
www.LEAP.cc
Law Enforcement Against Prohibition

[KHLady7]

I hate reading these articles...What a waste of money. LEGALIZE IT ALREADY!!!!!!!!

[stuart-johns]

JUST LEGALIZE POT!! A majority of Americans smoke the stuff. The war on drugs is a losing battle we just throw money at - ALOT of money.

JUST LEGALIZE MARIJUANA!!

[SkirtLifter]

From the article: ""...produce 25 to 50 tons of marijuana, with a potential street value of $300 million.""

$300 million? Why not guard it, harvest it, and sell it? This would put a dent in California's budget deficit. what a waste

[underdogus09]

LEGALIZE IT!! Bob Marley

[mcdojh]

People have been complaining for years now about the excessive spending on, and the futility of, the war on drugs. What exactly has to happen before we wake up and legalize marijuana???!!! Believe me, we'll get on here five years from now, and somebody -- maybe lots of people -- will be recommending that we end the war on drugs, etc., etc., etc.