Where the green grass grows

Kat Kerlin 

Reno News & Review

November 5, 2009

 

Heaps of trash, diverted water from streams,remnants of toxic pesticides and fertilizers, soil erosion—this is not a picture of sustainable agriculture. It’s also not likely something marijuana users think about when they light up a joint. But it’s the scene drug enforcement officers are increasingly finding at clandestine marijuana plots growing within the United States’ public lands and national forests.

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