Here's an email I wrote to my family in response to your post on the SFCrossfit blog about what you're seeing in Redding. I was going to post it on the Crossfit blog, but decided not to hijack the thread and to post it here instead. I assume you're fighting fires? I really appreciate everything you're doing for us.
Take care.
Michael
Our friend Matt from Crossfit, who must be a fireman (I hadn't realized), wrote a blog the other day about things he's seeing with marijuana growers in Redding, CA (I've included the post below), which piqued my interest in the subject. I found this article particularly interesting. Note that it's 5 years' old, and apparently things have gotten a lot worse since then (I hadn't realized things were quite so bad in the U.S., though I had heard similar stories from people living in Kentucky). I think there's a big misconception that the people that sell/grow weed are harmless hippies trying to make some extra cash. Nothing could be further from the truth, particularly in CA. The Mexican cartels are as evil as any people out there, are running a billion dollar industry, and would not hesitate for a moment to destroy anything or anyone that stood in their way (including our men in uniform trying to save our forests from the rampant fires raging right now). And there is a profound irony (and hypocrisy) in the fact that this "natural" product is causing such extreme damage to CA's national parks, given the professed eco-friendly attitudes of many smokers.
"I am in Redding and bored in my hotel room (but cool). Miss Crossfit. I did the heavy deadlift workout Saturday and it hurt. Would like to try the 155lb. clean and jerks if the local crossfit gym will let me in.
Running around in 112 degree heat through marijuana fields will get old though I have to say there is a physical challenge to surviving this heat while wearing all my equipment.
I am offended and surprised by what I am seeing here. Foreign nationals running around with assault rifles in the forest not hundreds of yards away from vacationing families. They set up shotgun booby traps for law enforcement among a myriad of others hazards. Law enforcement is not nimble enough nor do they have requisite legal authority or strength in numbers to deal with this threat."
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Matt,
Here's an email I wrote to my family in response to your post on the SFCrossfit blog about what you're seeing in Redding. I was going to post it on the Crossfit blog, but decided not to hijack the thread and to post it here instead. I assume you're fighting fires? I really appreciate everything you're doing for us.
Take care.
Michael
Our friend Matt from Crossfit, who must be a fireman (I hadn't realized), wrote a blog the other day about things he's seeing with marijuana growers in Redding, CA (I've included the post below), which piqued my interest in the subject. I found this article particularly interesting. Note that it's 5 years' old, and apparently things have gotten a lot worse since then (I hadn't realized things were quite so bad in the U.S., though I had heard similar stories from people living in Kentucky). I think there's a big misconception that the people that sell/grow weed are harmless hippies trying to make some extra cash. Nothing could be further from the truth, particularly in CA. The Mexican cartels are as evil as any people out there, are running a billion dollar industry, and would not hesitate for a moment to destroy anything or anyone that stood in their way (including our men in uniform trying to save our forests from the rampant fires raging right now). And there is a profound irony (and hypocrisy) in the fact that this "natural" product is causing such extreme damage to CA's national parks, given the professed eco-friendly attitudes of many smokers.
http://www.csmonitor.com/2003/0610/p01s03-usgn.html
"I am in Redding and bored in my hotel room (but cool). Miss Crossfit. I did the heavy deadlift workout Saturday and it hurt. Would like to try the 155lb. clean and jerks if the local crossfit gym will let me in.
Running around in 112 degree heat through marijuana fields will get old though I have to say there is a physical challenge to surviving this heat while wearing all my equipment.
I am offended and surprised by what I am seeing here. Foreign nationals running around with assault rifles in the forest not hundreds of yards away from vacationing families. They set up shotgun booby traps for law enforcement among a myriad of others hazards. Law enforcement is not nimble enough nor do they have requisite legal authority or strength in numbers to deal with this threat."
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