Moon California Hiking is the guidebook sitting beside me on the passenger seat.
Author, Tom Stienstra, has just been arrested.
… Stienstra, 55, was arrested March 25 after sheriff’s deputies served a search warrant at his home in Weed and found a “sophisticated cultivation operation” in his barn, sheriff’s office spokeswoman Susan Gravenkamp said in an e-mail.
Deputies allegedly found 31 immature marijuana plants, 29 mature marijuana plants and 11 pounds of processed marijuana …
That’s one way to support your hiking habit.
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Living in a place called Weed what would you expect, although I’d expect him to just grow it somewhere out in the woods. Or maybe just hidden somewhere in that beard.
That is classic. Maybe you should move to the town of “Hike”.
Joking aside, it isn’t that bad way to make a living. Pot production is a massive business – Marijuana is by far the biggest cash crop in the western world. Just in the US, it earns 5 times what Wheat does. Huge drug cartels, often violent, dominant the business; if money is going to go somewhere, better to this guy.