Pubdate: Mon, 09 May 2016 Source: San Francisco Chronicle (CA) Copyright: 2016 Hearst Communications Inc. Contact: http://www.sfgate.com/chronicle/submissions/#1 Website: http://www.sfgate.com/chronicle/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/388 Author: Peter Vaernet ILLEGAL GROWERS The Marijuana Act initiative that Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom is helping to launch should address within it what the state will do to shut down the illegal growers growing pot all over our national forests in far Northern California where they divert and steal enormous quantities of water from the rivers and creeks belonging to the First Nation Hoopa and Yurok people and poison the forests with rat poisons. Anyone hiking into any of these huge grow plots by coincidence is being shot at and threatened with death. Are we legalizing this also? Peter Vaernet, San Francisco - --- MAP posted-by: Jay Bergstrom