Via a story in the Los Angeles Times, which provided a link.

"In San Bernardino County, sheriff's deputies have come across 860 illegal sites. The farms have become so numerous that one outraged resident posted drone footage of one greenhouse after another filling a one-mile stretch of desert in Twentynine Palms."

Authorities in Southern California have seized more than 16 tons of marijuana worth an estimated $1.19 billion, Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department officials said Wednesday. The 10-day sting is the largest eradication of illegal marijuana cultivations in the history of the department The operation, which began on June 8,............................................................................................................................................................................................problem solved?

Can it be assumed that they are all illegal? Plus it's a desert. Are they trucking in water? Logistically that can't be easy or cheap.

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