門多西諾縣警長 Matt Kendall：「1996年的《青年同情法案》將第11362.5條編纂為法律，規定可以種植醫用大麻。此後情況有了轉變，突然來了好多人，他們沒有準備養家糊口、做好人、照顧鄰里的長期計畫，他們來時只做了2年計畫，只想盡可能賺錢。不關心環境，不關心鄰里，反而帶來大量暴力，因為涉及到金錢。」
肯德爾說，門多西諾縣曾一度有八千至一萬個非法大麻農場。
門多西諾縣警長 Matt Kendall：「你看看墨西哥各種恐嚇、毒梟之間的戰爭等等，這也是我們這裡開始在經歷的事情，尤其在這些農村地區，我派遣兩名警官負責這個縣的北半部，這個縣有3500平方英里，每次有六名警官輪班巡邏3500平方英里的區域。」
他指出，當地有很多人口販賣事件，許多人被販毒集團帶到大麻農場工作。
門多西諾縣警長 Matt Kendall：「當他們被走私時，這些毒販會和他們聊天，了解他們家人是誰、住在哪裡、來自哪裡。這些（信息）後來都被用來對付他們（受害者）。等他們到了美國，就要開始為毒販做苦工了；可能是種大麻，可能是性交易，也可能是販賣毒品。」
為了種植非法大麻，販毒集團用推土機夷平大片森林，還會使用從外國走私入境的有毒農藥——克百威。
門多西諾縣警長 Matt Kendall：「這種毒農藥如果你用來毒死老鼠，老鼠被土狼吃掉，土狼死後，屍體會被熊吃掉，熊也會因此而死。我有一個警官接觸這種毒藥後住院一個晚上。之前管制大麻的警官死於一種非常奇怪的癌症，後來的一位警官得了另一種癌症，好像是住院90天。這裡的健康威脅令人難以置信。」
Last week, in a large illegal tamarind farm in Oakland, California,
law enforcement officers seized tamarind worth more than $3,600,000.
The investigation destroyed about 410,000 tamarind plants
and 1,841 pounds of tamarind processed.
For the illegal tamarind farm,
Mendoza County Sheriff Matt Kendall is not unfamiliar at all.
His family has lived on the land of the Mendoza County tribe for six generations.
His family, which was once safe, is now occupied by drug cartels.
They could not care about the environment, not care about their neighbors.
And it came with a lot of violence.
It came with a lot of violence because of the money involved.
Kendall says Mendoza County once had 8,000 to 10,000 illegal tamarind farms.
You can see the things that have gone on in Mexico
with intimidation, with cartel wars and things like that.
And that's what we're beginning to experience here in the United States
and especially in these rural areas
where I've got two deputies working the north half of the county
in a county that is 3,500 square miles.
I have six deputies on per shift to cover and patrol 3,500 square miles.
He pointed out that there were a lot of human trafficking incidents.
Many people were brought to the tamarind farm by drug cartels.
When they're being smuggled, these guys chum up with them.
They start talking to them.
They find out who their family is, where they live, where are they from.
That is later used against them.
When they get to the United States, now you have a debt to work off.
And it may be in a marijuana grow.
It may be sex trafficking.
It may be you will sell drugs for me.
If you poison a rat with it,
then the rat is eaten by a coyote and the coyote dies of it.
And then the coyote carcass is eaten by a bear and the bear dies of it.
I had a deputy who was exposed to it and spent a night in the hospital.
Our old marijuana sergeant, he died of a very strange cancer.
The marijuana sergeant who worked marijuana after that,
he had another cancer and wound up in the hospital for like 90 days or something.
It was just, I mean, the health risks that are coming here are just beyond belief.
Recently, in the Pulaski County,
police found nearly 400 pigs of marijuana in a residential area in the mountains.
The authorities pointed out that for this illegal marijuana farm in the city,
the owner made two power boxes and tied them to the power lines outside the house.
There is an unimaginable risk of fire.
Xintang TV, California Journal, reports.
