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   From: tim.howard@suddenlink.net   
      
   Jack G. wrote:   
   > On Jun 10, 6:56 pm, "Billzz"  wrote:   
   >> "Tim Howard"  wrote in message   
   >>   
   >> news:4a306172$0$23764$bbae4d71@news.suddenlink.net...   
   >>   
   >>> There is already a problem with people growing marijuana on public   
   >>> lands, but if the Governator gets his way and closes the parks the   
   >>> problem will skyrocket.  Most state parks are not gated and for those   
   >>> that are, it is still easy to get in most of them.  Without tourists,   
   >>> campers and park employees, drug dealers will run ramped in them.  And I   
   >>> am not just talking about pot, I mean hard drugs like speed.  If   
   >>> homeless can build makeshift buildings and campsites in wooded parks   
   >>> when they are open and go undetected for a long time, then don't you   
   >>> think drug dealers can set up meth labs?  Some park employees are   
   >>> speaking out about this.  Hopefully the voters of Kalefonia will get   
   >>> their representatives to stop this short-sighted idea to save money,   
   >>> because the costs will far outweigh any savings a few years down the   
   >>> road.  No matter what you think of drugs (and I favor decriminalization   
   >>> and for some, legalization), they do not belong in our CA State Parks.   
   >> That's a good point, and worthy of a letter to the editor of the Sacramento   
   >> Bee.  Someone will read it   
   >   
   > The pot growers will not have a chance to plant their crops in the   
   > state parks.   
   > The parks will be over run by an army of homeless people and they will   
   > trash the parks.   
   > Bend over California.   
   > Here comes the change.   
      
   I won't try to dispute your assumption that there is "an army of   
   homeless", but I will say that between pot growers and homeless, my   
   money is on the pot growers, and other drug dealers.  Unless you think   
   all the homeless have automatic weapons.   
      
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