proselytizing

[dry land fish]

Hey I don't have a problem with anyone in the state of Kentucky growing Marijuana. It's not a negative thing to grow or smoke pot. Only if you don't put it before your other responsibilities. Our climate is great for it. We have rich soil and the weather is great. We have deep dark "hollers" as people call them that stays moist and just enough sunlight gets through the trees to allow the plants to really take off. It's not a redneck thing...but it's just that it grows so well here and we have so many remote places and people can easily grow thousands of pounds of pot. Tobacco is a long tradition in my state. Actually Native Americans grew tobacco. Most of the Tobacco grown here is Burley and the early settlers started growing tobacco because of the Native Americans. So...really it's not only a Kentucky thing but the history is much more rich than that. I love the smell of fresh cut tobacco and the smell of it curing in a barn. As a child my family grew it and I'd have to strip it in the fall. Used to my family made a couple hundred grand from one years yield of tobacco. Today it's much less and hardly worth the effort because labor is more expensive and it's not worth as much.

I have not seen "underbelly" but it sounds similar to the stories America has about Miami in the 80's. That was cocaine...not pot. I'm living in a huge drug trade area. Meth labs are everywhere and it's common to have a monthly or weekly explosion in my town. They even make meth in cars! Pot still reigns supreme though....it's everywhere. The farther East you go and get into the Appalachia area the more pot you will find and out in there you get into the pain pill trade and not so much meth. The pot out in that area is some funky stuff and better than here. The moisture and soil of the mountains really makes it super sticky.