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NEVADA COUNTY (CBS13) — Hikers discovered marijuana left along a trail by Nevada County Sheriff’s deputies.

They were walking along the Harmony Trail north of Nevada City when they smelled something that wasn’t just the pine trees.

Bending down, they saw marijuana plants. Those buds didn’t come from a grower; they came from the Nevada County Sheriff’s Department.

“What they did is go up to where the forest service told them they could dispose of it, and put it on the ground thinking that it should be useless,” said Sheriff Keith Royal.

The pile was quite a surprise for Melissa Miller, who works at a deli near the trail.

“They ended up coming from the trails and said there was a big pile of marijuana,” Miller said.

Deputies typically bury confiscated plants, since the marijuana goes bad once it’s in the ground. But this time they shredded it in a wood chipper with bamboo and branches, and left it on the side of the trails.

“Because of all the product that went through there and how the machinery breaks it down, it would be useless to the general public who may wander by,” Royal said.

Even so, Melissa says the deputies put kids and animals in danger.

“We have a lot of kids that come through here and a lot of people on the trail,” she said.

Royal says taking the plants to a disposal site is too expensive and says they will continue to partner with the Tahoe National Forest, because it’s cost-effective.

“We’ve taken steps to ensure we are going to follow the same protocol and they will bury it in the future,” he said



http://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2013/09/25/nevada-county-deputies-ditch-shredded-weed-along-hiking-trails/

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  • 9-Lives9-Lives Posts: 2,124 Captain
    :thumbsup on the thread title
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  • hatcityhatcity Posts: 3,446 Captain
    Seems that running it through the chipper with other material, they created a better environment for the seeds to germinate and set root

    Good job
    I was not born stupid, just had lots of practice
  • SpaceCoast SlayerSpaceCoast Slayer Posts: 3,527 Captain
    nice... they should call that little patch the cop crop :wink
  • We did a project in South Dade West of Krome Ave a few years ago. I cannot count how many times people dumped marijuana plants and debris in the roads there. Mostly it was the stems and roots from the grow houses, but every once in a while, and usually after a nearby bust, others would clean house and get pretty careless about what they threw away.

    Seriously, one day an employee drove my dump truck down one road and by the return trip another dump truck had dumped a pile of black garbage bags full of pot waste and actually blocked the road. Another time the cops caught someone dumping, and all the trash was weighed and counted as weed. Stems, roots, buds, leaves, all dumped for nearly all of the two year project.

    Made for some interesting problems on a Corps of Engineers job which was a drug free work place. Sure, after a dumping, it was a free drug work place not a drug free work place!
  • mjnmjn Posts: 1,577 Captain
    jad1097 wrote: »
    Even so, Melissa says the deputies put kids and animals in danger.

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    Dude, I'm telling you, its just gone

    ---No way

    Seriously it was there yesterday, even had some bamboo in with it, it was flippin succulent

    ---And the blackberries just to the south?

    They are still there. Worst is the smell was still there but the happy plant was gone?

    ---Dude

    You want to go get some blackberries

    ---Na, not hungry for some reason
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