Editor:
On Dec. 8, NCJ ran an advertisement for Wonderland Nursery featuring a map of Humboldt County with a green spot marking each known marijuana grow with commercial cannabis registrations or applications submitted. On the same map are barely visible blue squiggly lines indicating creeks and streams. Sit down with a black pen and trace over all the blue streams. When you are finished you will have a web of water usage you have never seen before.
The grows have been historically lackadaisical about their husbandry of the watershed. If we think legalization is going to cure this problem, we don’t know much about human nature. Someone had better be paying better attention to this interface between man and earth than has been past practice. It is the impact point subject to cause the most serious long term physical damage.
Larry Strattner, Cutten
This article appears in Top 10 Stories of 2016.
Water is life. This is the mantra of the Water protectors in Standing Rock in North Dakota who have stopped at least temporarily the Dakota Access Pipe Line. If the marijuana growers impact any tribal water resources, mark my words, Tribal Governments will shut them down.
it took years to shut down rays in hoopa for it’s disgusting rat infestation, so we’ll see about the efficiency of ANY government