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Law enforcement officials say that the grow sites popping up in places like the Shasta-Trinity National Forest are primarily operated by well-funded international crime organizations.
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As America’s legal weed industry continues to grow, police, environmentalists, and wildlife officials are complaining of expanded black market grow operations hidden throughout the country’s dense public forests. With no regulation or oversight, the off-grid cultivation plots are pouring chemicals, trash, and other waste into the environment at previously-unseen rates, killing animals and eroding the land.
In California, in particular, forestry...
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