Mexican Cartels Are Growing Marijuana In California’s National Forests

Drug trafficking organizations now doing business in U.S. national forests, exploiting public land to illegally grow marijuana. In California, where resources are stretched thin by wildfires, Mexican drug traffickers have been emboldened to expand their operations. NBC senior investigative correspondent Cynthia McFadden reports for TODAY.

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50 Comments

  1. Tazpupper on July 29, 2022 at 2:33 am

    I doubt this is in the build back better package.



  2. Pot TV on July 29, 2022 at 2:33 am

    Wait? The problem is too little money for cops? Huh?

    Where’s the hot pepper squad? Or poison ivy patrol?

    Why does anyone have to grow any plant peacefully in secret?

    Stop arresting, jailing, fining and punishing people for being peaceful with pot. Period.

    Defund the drug war.



  3. MILWAUKEE MOTOR on July 29, 2022 at 2:36 am

    i didn’t know that, these chemicals starting forest fires



  4. Marco Paganotto on July 29, 2022 at 2:36 am

    A + B is Zyklon B… Really?!



  5. lupe avalos on July 29, 2022 at 2:36 am

    Make prop 64 illegal again.



  6. Gianni's Travels on July 29, 2022 at 2:36 am

    Hail the National Forest Service!🌱🌲🌱



  7. KWAHU on July 29, 2022 at 2:37 am

    Meanwhile these same rangers bring in 1000 gallon tanks of poison and spray it all over those same forests. Look it up I witness these trailers with huge tanks and a dozen backpacks on it full of poison ☠️



  8. Jesse Garcia on July 29, 2022 at 2:37 am

    Mexican cartels? I’m just a humble gorilla grower 🥲



  9. Francisco Arellano on July 29, 2022 at 2:39 am

    I heard no actual evidence of it being cartels or Mexican ??



  10. David Lee on July 29, 2022 at 2:40 am

    One problem. Some dispensaries got deals.



  11. Central Based Agency on July 29, 2022 at 2:40 am

    Subhumans destroying nature and killing animals for geed. Nothing good comes out south of the border.
    Send in the military



  12. ZiN1010 on July 29, 2022 at 2:45 am

    Subbed!



  13. Scott Austill on July 29, 2022 at 2:45 am

    Do the cartels "kief" their weed? You know, do they remove what gets you high before selling it? In Portland, Oregon they "kief" the weed! These dispensaries should be closed unless they fix this problem. So, hey cartels, we need weed in Portland, Oregon. The unscrupulous dispensaries are a fuckng joke.



  14. Jarrod Yuki on July 29, 2022 at 2:45 am

    take all four jabs.



  15. MILWAUKEE MOTOR on July 29, 2022 at 2:46 am

    if government knows this why aren’t they stopping it



  16. Belltown Daisy on July 29, 2022 at 2:47 am

    This makes me beyond angry, especially the pesticides! I HATE junkies!



  17. Jason Wilson on July 29, 2022 at 2:47 am

    In the future you won’t be arrested or fined for possession of ANY amount of marijuana or for growing ANY amount of plants Oklahoma cannabis militia



  18. Jesus Malverde on July 29, 2022 at 2:48 am

    Maybe if they invested our tax money on important things like this instead of teaching our kids a thousand made up genders we would be better off



  19. Gianni's Travels on July 29, 2022 at 2:49 am

    We can go to Iraq and Afghanistan but We do Not even Know how to control Our own lands.
    Shame on Democrats and Republicans!😡😡😡



  20. Ryann Hwa Oldach on July 29, 2022 at 2:50 am

    This is insane. Foreign nationals growing weed in federal lands and the government cant even handle it wtf



  21. Michael Cox on July 29, 2022 at 2:51 am

    Biden said it’s ok



  22. Kayfa Che on July 29, 2022 at 2:52 am

    WE HUNT BUCK IN THAT FOREST BOY



  23. Jesse Garcia on July 29, 2022 at 2:55 am

    Do you guys see all that garbage . once those cops get there, they’re the ones that throw everything all over the place…



  24. Marco Paganotto on July 29, 2022 at 2:57 am

    Gotta supply the demand eh!
    Time for courage and change, legalization is the only answer.



  25. Melissa Macaluso on July 29, 2022 at 2:57 am

    Yep that’s what Biden is letting in our country!!!!!!!!



  26. Dick Long on July 29, 2022 at 2:59 am

    Go green



  27. Love machine on July 29, 2022 at 2:59 am

    These news casters are clowns. California is a lawless state. You think the cartels are stupid or something ?



  28. noble m. lodge el on July 29, 2022 at 3:01 am

    But these idiots aren’t mad about all the cancer causing gmo monosantos is growing. The u.s. corporation aka government sales drugs too…fda evaluated approved dope 👀



  29. Ciro Lo scoglio on July 29, 2022 at 3:02 am

    She no reporter of any merit



  30. CDN on July 29, 2022 at 3:03 am

    Highly doubt they’ve made millions off of marijuana on that land



  31. Shawn Gaertner on July 29, 2022 at 3:07 am

    This is what happens when your Leaders hate you so much they wish to import your demise.So depressing watching Democrats and Liberals destroy their countries.



  32. Belltown Daisy on July 29, 2022 at 3:07 am

    How is this different from what Americans have always done? Look up Humboldt County and all the people who have disappeared there over the years. Tied to the American marijuana business.



  33. MrElemonator on July 29, 2022 at 3:09 am

    Who is buying that garbage cannabis? Probably states that still have it illegal. The solution is to legalize federally and allow people to grow their own outdoor. Unfortunately the government thinks it’s a business civil asset forfeiture is a profitable tool. These mass indoor grows could be reduced to allow that electricity to be used for the hungry electric market. Illegal grow in the National forest should be handled with death and no person would support that activity. Automatic weapons need a good job.



  34. vato locos forever on July 29, 2022 at 3:12 am

    !!FAKE NEWS!!



  35. mikel on July 29, 2022 at 3:12 am

    That ain’t the cartel. Lol the cartel has millions of dollars than to be stupid. They have connections to Columbia ect. These are cheap ppl trying to get money.



  36. TcoButt SmellyStench on July 29, 2022 at 3:13 am

    Throw them in the slammer! Good, NO mexico drug cartel in USA California. We don’t want that here. I’m not even white. Tell them go back to Mexico!



  37. Aaron on July 29, 2022 at 3:15 am

    only thing i agree with trump is that we need a wall



  38. Freddy on July 29, 2022 at 3:16 am

    Sounds like Marcelo Rola in Monterey CA



  39. Mario Alberto :P on July 29, 2022 at 3:17 am

    We’ll at least the weed won’t have fentanyl.
    Don’t they say, everything that comes from Mexico, don’t do it, it has fentanyl!?



  40. Pacicin Chiaricurri on July 29, 2022 at 3:20 am

    This is the most surreal youtube video clip about mexican illegal land expropriation.



  41. ANDREW ESCALANTE on July 29, 2022 at 3:20 am

    Cool.



  42. MixedHobbiesGuy on July 29, 2022 at 3:21 am

    We’re barely finding this out?😂



  43. Scuffed Ice Poseidon on July 29, 2022 at 3:22 am

    So there are Mexicans in Adidas shirts and Nike pants holding ar-15’s driving through Californian woods and plant marihuana plants? I’m surprised those cartel guys even found that spot while being unable to follow a GPS instruction on their stolen Ford f-250



  44. Freddy on July 29, 2022 at 3:24 am

    And their garages at home where their kids sleep👌😂



  45. Kat on July 29, 2022 at 3:25 am

    We should all plant edible plants like sunflowers for the birds to compensate. They hurt the birds and bugs first. You see them suffer to walk with burnt feet around there. Make you cry.



  46. MILWAUKEE MOTOR on July 29, 2022 at 3:27 am

    government needs to step up with staff and funds



  47. Rapaz A on July 29, 2022 at 3:29 am

    She is lovley ❤️



  48. Erryal DeBruce on July 29, 2022 at 3:30 am

    I Still Can’t believe they put out the first part of this clip😂😂



  49. lemonlimelukey on July 29, 2022 at 3:30 am

    lmao get a load of these clowns.



  50. kaasi on July 29, 2022 at 3:32 am

    think she has been smoking the product