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With the opening of Angelina Jolie’s latest film “Salt” — which casts her as a double agent working for the Russians, and following the recent arrests of 12 bona fide Russian spies who had been living undercover in American cities, America appears to be warming up to a New Cold War — all over again. You may not realize that Mendocino County is in the thick of the battle.
Sheriff Tom Allman begins this year’s growing season with the same marijuana objectives as he had in 2009 — Commercial Operations, Trespass Grows, Public Land Grows, Environmental Degradation Grows, Water Theft and Illegal Diversion Grows, Neighborhood Complaints and Compliance Checks.
One additional objective was included: Cartels.
“The Russian Mafia are here,” says the Sheriff.
Though we don’t know where the local cartel is headquartered, Russian River Estates, Russian Gulch State Park and properties along the Russian River must be likely strongholds.
If the new Red Threat wasn’t enough to stress out on, the cannabis community is reacting loudly to a DEA-led raid on the Covelo home of Joy Greenfield, 68 — dispensary owner, medical marijuana patient and recently dubbed “Grandma Grower” of marijuana activists. Some see this raid as a bellwether moment forecasting the failure of the county’s just-adopted, labyrinthine 9.31 marijuana nuisance ordinance — already the subject of two civil lawsuits.
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