Recent news reports told of a house in Florida that was gutted and filled with marijuana plants. This venture was so profitable to the drug gang that ran it that they gave the illegal immigrant who took care of the plants free room and board and told him after three years he could keep the house. Another recent story was about a remote part of a state park in Washington that was secretly deforested and planted in marijuana by Mexican drug lords and farmed by armed illegal immigrants. [continues 210 words]