Illegal pot invades California's deserts, bringing violence, fear and ecological destruction
Illegal pot invades California's deserts, bringing violence, fear and ecological destruction Jaclyn Cosgrove and Louis Sahagún, Los Angeles Times July 15, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail Marijuana plants at Harboside Farms in Salinas, Calif., on Thursday, July 20, 2017.Gabrielle Lurie / The Chronicle LOS ANGELES — Before his corpse was dumped in a shallow grave 50 miles north of Los Angeles, Mauricio Ismael Gonzalez-Ramirez was held prisoner at one of the hundreds of black-market pot farms that have exploded across California’s high desert in the last several years, authorities say. He worked...
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