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2026-07-11 -Lurid Crime Tales-

California seizes 63,000 pounds of illegal cannabis worth $104 million in major crackdown

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Posted by Skidmark 2026-07-11 00:00|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [1974 views ] Top
File under: Narcos

1 They created a larger consumer base on getting weed on the streets with their crazy ass taxes on "legal" weed! I can buy 3 times the amount cheaper and better on the street than the "legal" shit and it comes straight to me.

Posted by Chris 2026-07-11 04:12|| 2026-07-11 04:12|| Front Page Top

2

Question of the day:

How did California destroyed more than 841,000 pounds of Weed?

At Burning Man ☺

Posted by NN2N1 2026-07-11 05:04|| 2026-07-11 05:04|| Front Page Top

3 cheaper and better on the street than the "legal" shit

Sure, but the illegal stuff carries the risk of being tainted with fentanyl and the knowledge that each purchase supports international narco gangs and Hezbollah, which has been entwined with them for thirty years or more. The War on Terror doesn’t stay neatly on the other side of the world.

Posted by trailing wife 2026-07-11 09:37|| 2026-07-11 09:37|| Front Page Top

4 #3; it is California, the same actors may be profiting on either side of the street.

Posted by Bugs the Wicked6167 2026-07-11 10:55|| 2026-07-11 10:55|| Front Page Top

5 "Through strong multiagency collaboration, California is making clear: if you threaten our communities, we will act," he added.

The biggest threat to California communities is Newsom with his plan to transform single family neighborhoods with massive apartment complexes. He gives no thought to traffic, schools, hospitals, water, fire protection, police protection or anything else. He only cares that people who live in apartments are more likely to vote Democrat than people who own their own homes and pay property taxes.

And then there are the rigged elections.

As for the marijuana, I smell that legal weed all over town these days and it doesn't smell anything at all like the weed in the 1960's and 1970's. People tell me that's because it's so much more potent these days but I'm not convinced. It'd be like Newsom and his Democrat friends to genetically modify the legal stuff so it's not even the same drug anymore.

I mean, you have to wonder why growing a plant that would get you five years in the state penitentiary 50 years ago is now encouraged by the government.

I'm sure there are old hippies who grow it for their own use and I'd leave them alone.

But I'm afraid the bigger growers are either government stooges or narco terrorists from places like Mexico and China. The latter would have no qualms about using dangerous, illegal pesticides and fertilizers. I'd stay away from all of that.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2026-07-11 12:31|| 2026-07-11 12:31|| Front Page Top

Newsom taking credit for something long established, I was personally an Active CAMP Veteran 1990-1995 -

Wiki AI cite:"The Campaign Against Marijuana Planting (CAMP) is a multi-agency law enforcement task force in California established in 1983 to eradicate illegal cannabis cultivation. Managed by the California Department of Justice, CAMP partners with local, state, and federal agencies to target large-scale, illicit grow operations on both public and private lands."

Posted by NoMoreBS 2026-07-11 14:58|| 2026-07-11 14:58|| Front Page Top

7 TW, when you've dealt with any drug you always deal with the same ppl that you know. Or you watch someone else partake in the same substance you are using and see if they die or OD before you consume said substance.

Posted by Chris 2026-07-11 17:48|| 2026-07-11 17:48|| Front Page Top

8 RE #2

Nah. You hardly ever smell it walking around BRC these days. It's still illegal on federal land, and the kids mostly vape or eat their THC products.

Posted by Secret Master 2026-07-11 19:45|| 2026-07-11 19:45|| Front Page Top

9 and see if they die or OD before you consume said substance.

Thank goodness you are here to explain such things to me, Chris — seriously, not being snide, but that would never, ever have occurred to me. So it’s just as well I never got farther than holding an unlit joint once. Mr. Wife is absolutely right that sobriety is for people who can’t handle drugs, and you’re the only one who explains any of the things I didn’t know that I don’t know. <3

Posted by trailing wife 2026-07-11 21:04|| 2026-07-11 21:04|| Front Page Top

10 The current legal stuff available is pretty damn strong. I know my Led Zep, Pink Floyd, and Robin Trower have been getting a workout

Posted by Frank G 2026-07-11 22:23|| 2026-07-11 22:23|| Front Page Top

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