{"id":9440,"date":"2021-10-13T08:29:02","date_gmt":"2021-10-13T08:29:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thecannabist.co\/2021\/10\/13\/illegal-marijuana-farms-in-orange-county-show-how-toxic-danger-is-spread-through-national-forests\/135494\/"},"modified":"2021-10-13T08:29:02","modified_gmt":"2021-10-13T08:29:02","slug":"illegal-marijuana-farms-in-orange-county-show-how-toxic-danger-is-spread-through-national-forests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/illegal-marijuana-farms-in-orange-county-show-how-toxic-danger-is-spread-through-national-forests\/","title":{"rendered":"Illegal marijuana farms in Orange County show how toxic danger is spread through national forests"},"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 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href=\"https:\/\/www.thecannabist.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/OCR-L-POT-1009-01-4-533x400.jpg\"><img src=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/illegal-marijuana-farms-in-orange-county-show-how-toxic-danger-is-spread-through-national-forests-17.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecannabist.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/OCR-L-POT-1009-01-533x400.jpg\"><img src=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/illegal-marijuana-farms-in-orange-county-show-how-toxic-danger-is-spread-through-national-forests-18.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div><img src=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/illegal-marijuana-farms-in-orange-county-show-how-toxic-danger-is-spread-through-national-forests-20.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"large-10 large-centered small-12 columns\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecannabist.co\/2021\/10\/13\/illegal-marijuana-farms-in-orange-county-show-how-toxic-danger-is-spread-through-national-forests\/135494\/#comments-anchor\"><span class=\"spot-im-replies-count\" data-post-id=\"135494\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Don Hoang stood on a hillside thick with brush in the Cleveland National Forest where in September, officers had uprooted some 1,300 illegal marijuana plants that could have netted the growers a $4 million profit.<\/p>\n<p>Hoang was more concerned with what he saw scattered around him in a canyon near Ortega Highway in Orange County: pesticides so toxic that they are banned in the United States, plus fertilizer, beer cans, irrigation tubing, clothing and trash.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor us, it\u2019s not about the marijuana. It\u2019s about protecting the environment, protecting the wildlife and protecting the water supply to the communities,\u201d said Hoang, special agent in charge for U.S. Forest Service law enforcement investigations. \u201cThis is what they are doing to public lands. They are coming\u00a0 in and destroying it for an illicit purpose.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ocregister.com\/2021\/10\/09\/illegal-marijuana-farms-in-orange-county-show-how-toxic-danger-is-spread-through-national-forests\/\">Read the rest of this story on ocregister.com.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!-- .row --> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don Hoang stood on a hillside thick with brush in the Cleveland National Forest where in September, officers had uprooted some 1,300 illegal marijuana plants that could have netted the growers a $4 million profit. Hoang was more concerned with what he saw scattered around him in a canyon near Ortega Highway in Orange County: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8226,9,8363,1,3,61,1736],"tags":[8227,8364],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9440"}],"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=9440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9440\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}