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Los Angeles, CA - February 27, 2013 Marijuana-Grows Harm the
Environment and Public Health
Coalition for Drug Free California (CDFC)
Advisory Board Member Alexandra Datig releases video showing the direct impact
marijuana growing has on the environment, public health and public safety.
Datig
states, "California’s central valley is in a state of crisis and
Californians must come to understand it is time to repeal Proposition
215. Criminal networks are trespassing onto our farmlands, stealing
water allocated for our nation’s food crops, to illegally grow
doctor-recommended medical marijuana plants by the tens of
thousands. Landowners, some aware, some unaware, have illegal
cultivators, Mexican cartel members and drug gangs living in squalor, waiting
to harvest marijuana on our farm lands. While using dangerous
pesticides contaminating water and the so-called medical marijuana, as well
contaminating organic food crops with fungus and THC, the government
must take action to immediately remove this threat to our nation’s food supply.
According to Lieutenant Ko, of the Fresno County Sheriffs Department, conflicts
between drug gangs have brought the body count from three in 2012 to six in
2013."
Alexandra Datig, CDFC Board Member, is also the President of Highroad LA, a business and government relations firm based in California.
California's largest anti-drug coalition
