Illegal drugs, guns in National Forests


It looks like National Forests and "gun free" National Parks are increasingly becoming a battle ground for the war on drugs. Now police are warning hikers to be cautious of their surroundings, lest they stumble onto an illegal growing field.

...his point was to say that if a hiker had stumbled upon the kind of marijuana farm that officials shut down in the Coconino National Forest earlier this week near Strawberry, there may have been a tragedy.

Police had observed a person patrolling the area with an assault rifle, Charlton said.

Charlton said armed guards often are paid to protect marijuana farms, and an unwary hiker could lose his or her life.

"If you stumble across one of these places, back out the same way you came in and report it to authorities," Charlton said.



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Yay for the retarded War on Drugs. It's working, it's working. Look at me ma, no drugs in my system.

All thanks to the DEA, the ATF and FBI!

I do carry weapons when I'm camping MY national forests, however.

Posted by: Trevor at August 22, 2005 10:37 AM

``Report it to the authorities.'' The worst possible advice!

The public policy, posted on bulletin boards and trees, should be : if you see such a field, under no circumstances should you tell anybody. We will not take reports on fields from the public. Make it a crime to disclose information about fields.

Then the guard doesn't have an incentive to kill whoever sees a field.

Posted by: Ron Hardin at August 22, 2005 11:37 AM

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