{"id":8416,"date":"2018-08-15T00:59:49","date_gmt":"2018-08-15T00:59:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/?p=3166694"},"modified":"2018-08-15T00:59:49","modified_gmt":"2018-08-15T00:59:49","slug":"federal-agencies-removed-more-than-71000-marijuana-plants-from-colorado-public-lands-in-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/federal-agencies-removed-more-than-71000-marijuana-plants-from-colorado-public-lands-in-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Federal agencies removed more than 71,000 marijuana plants from Colorado public lands in 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 0 5px 5px;float:right;height:100px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/federal-agencies-removed-more-than-71000-marijuana-plants-from-colorado-public-lands-in-2017\/\" send=\"true\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div><div class=\"media_block\"><\/div>\n<div><img src=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/federal-agencies-removed-more-than-71000-marijuana-plants-from-colorado-public-lands-in-2017.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Federal agencies removed more than 71,000 marijuana plants from public lands during last year\u2019s growing season, according to a news release from the U.S. Attorney\u2019s Colorado office.<\/p>\n<p>The plants were growing illegally on about 38 acres, not including the islands of the Colorado River. These grows are ones that operate outside of the laws established for Colorado\u2019s legal cannabis industry.<\/p>\n<p>The marijuana growing season typically runs from early summer through the fall.<\/p>\n<p>The Forest Service, Bureau of Land Management and Homeland Security Investigations assisted with a number of the investigations that resulted in at least seven cases that have resulted in prison time for some of the defendants.<\/p>\n<p>Officials found more than plants at some of the illegal marijuana grows. At grows in the San Isabel National Forest, 5,000 pounds of trash and infrastructure were found at each site, according to Forest Service officials.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"related right\" \/>\n<p>Man-made reservoirs and numerous structures were built from cut pine timber. Pesticides and other chemicals were found, and it took hundreds of hours to clean up each site, the news release said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPublic lands are just that \u2014 they\u2019re public and belong to all of us,\u201d U.S. Attorney Robert Troyer said in the release. \u201cThese black marketers abuse our land, our water, our animals and plants. With these prosecutions, we motivate black marketers to make less harmful occupational choices.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><\/div>\n<p>Federal agencies removed more than 71,000 marijuana plants from public lands during last year&#8217;s growing season, according to a news release from the U.S. Attorney&#8217;s Colorado office. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7339,52,6811,6812,7495,7279,6813,77,6814,6933,5667,9,5019,7644,7951,1,3,6965,7585,61,1736],"tags":[7341,2632,6816,6817,7496,7282,6818,2655,6819,6934,5673,5022,7647,7952,6968,7589],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8416"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8416\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}