The Chickasha Daily Express (Chickasha, Okla.), Vol. 91, No. 251, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 7, 1982 Page: 8 of 16
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THE CHICKASHA DAILY EXPRESS, Thursday, October 7, 1982
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cry from the home-grown
hemp patches of the 1960s. By
the 1970s, a potent variety of
marijuana called indica, cul-
tivated specifically as a drug
instead of a fiber, had set
roots in the domestic market.
Indica has thicker, more
potent buds than hemp
marijuana The bud is the
most marketable portion of
the plant, and many growers
use a farming technique
called "sinsemilla" to make
those buds more potent.
Sinsemilla, in Spanish,
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Then he has to worry about
poachers who may try to take
his crop away from him —
sometimes with violence.
To deal with them, he may
string booby traps around his
patch of marijuana plants.
Then he has to worry about
the quality of his crop.
It has to be good to bring
top dollar, and authorities say
Ozarks growers have learned
to grow potent marijuana.
Federal Drug Enforcement
Administration agents say
the amount of marijuana
grown in the Ozarks puts the
region second in the country
in marijuana production.
agents mean southwest Mis-
souri, northwest Arkansas
and southeast Oklahoma
They say the Pacific Nor-
thwest, primarily California,
is the nation’s top marijuana
producing area
The sparsely populated
Ozarks hills have the climate
and countless hiding places
the product of cultivation of
female plants only. The
unpollenated plants become
more potent as they continue
to secret a residue to catch
pollen, growers say.
Ozarks marijuana has been
tested in labs as having as
much as a 10.62 percent
content of the potent in-
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chemical known generally as
THC. THC is the substance in
marijuana that gives a
person a "high."
"Guerilla growing" —
growing on someone else's
land without the landowner’s
knowledge - has become a
popular way of dodging law
officers and prosecution
“Don’t plant on your own
land. If it’s not on your own
place, no one can tie you to
it," one grower said. He grew
for years in the midst of
property owned by a man who
lived outside the United
States.
"You'd be surprised how
much land here is owned by
people who never see it,” he
said. “I found a real estate
agent I could trust, and he
found me a piece of ground."
Sometimes, however, land-
owners do stumble onto the
patches.
In August, Leonard Evans,
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (UPD)
- He seems to make his
money raising cattle, hauling
hay, painting houses or
teaching college courses.
He does, in fact, make some
money that way. But the
groceries he carried in today,
that new pickup truck in his
driveway and that high-pow-
ered stereo in his living room
are fruits of illegal farming.
He grows marijuana.
Marijuana is big business
in southwest Missouri, a large
chunk of the rugged and
remote Ozarks.
But it's a business that
carries its own kinds of risks.
First, the grower faces the
risk that law enforcement
officers will get a tip or spot
his crop from a helicopter.
To protect himself from law
officers, he may learn such
tricks as “guerilla growing”,
which means using someone
etoe's land to grow marijuana
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By "Ozarks,"
expect the harvest to double from some older people who
this year. If it does, don’t have enough money to
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Crouch, supervisor of the
Ozark National Forest.
Still, Crouch said, reports
of growers ruling the woods
are exaggerated
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The use of radiation and anti-
cancer drugs following
surgery to adding months to
the survival of people with
malignant brain tumors, but
a New York neurologist says
a cure for brain cancer to not
within sight.
Dr. William R Shapiro said
doctors today are at about the
stage in treating and under-
standing cancer of the brain
as physicians were in treating
leukemia 20 years ago.
“That is, we now have good
initial effective therapy but
do not have consistently ef
fective maintenance therapy
and cure remains elusive,”
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surrounding brain tissue to
cause death.
“Its major problem in
therapy to that any attempt to
remove completely such
tumors usually produces too
much brain damage,"
Shapiro said.
“Thus, the neurosurgeon
faced with the dilemma of a
patient with a maligant pri
mary brain tumor must be
constrained in his attempt to
remove it and therefore
usually leaves malignant
cells which will eventually
grow back."
In past years, Shapiro said
treatment usually consisted
of partial removal of the
tumor followed by un-
successful attempts to use
radiation to kill remaining
cancer cells. In the 1960s, the
median survival — the time
half the patients lived
without the
knowledge
tetrahydrocannabinol, a
said the head of the
Laboratory of Neuro-
Oncology at the Memorial
Sloan-Kettering Cancer
Center.
Leukemia today, par-
ticularly in children, is
considered curable in many
cases
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farmaandcalledanenberitt Hill said. "quatters come
Evans saia it was ine urs r h id IThat is the only onto the land, and then
time he had seen marijuana Crouchsaid. htist„ - thev’re cone Unless vou can
“I was startled shocked incident we have had. they re gone Unless you can
vou might stgrthdssdamter Growers on forest lands1186 catch ‘here, you can t
Loumig sheriff's deputies ‘he same tactics as growers prove anything.
helpin &.she 7 ffsdepu elsewhere, Martin said. They Sometimes, even getting to
uprootsabouttpants those plant in small, scattered the crop to a problem Unless
Marijuana is one of those Patches near timber lines, land owners consent to a
thingswyoushrarabout bu which makes it tough to spot search, officers must get
when you find some on your enough information for a
own place, you realize how Iom 1E search warrant Usuallv the
i. Im. it hits " “Overseas, you see it like searcn warrant, -suauy, me
close to home it hits. eOm You see it a little like fields are hidden, and
Private land is not the on y • California" DEA trespassing can ruin a case,
land that attracts growers, that in Caurorna um i- s Airplnes
They have found a haven in agent Casteel said. 8layat 8 imts
0 midt of Ozarks federal “Unfortunately, around here and helicopters are helping
toremidst they tend topiant in the solve that problem, officers
Paul Martin, Ava district timber lines or plant five said
ranger in the Mark Twain plants here, five plants there. “Two or three years ago we
National Forest said the They’re no dummies here.” were going in on foot or any
number of reports he receives A prosecutor can lose a way we could get in. We had
of people growing marijuana case if he does not draw a cases in court where they
in the forest increases each convincing tie between the contended we trespassed,"
year. The Ava district in- suspect and the crop Highway Patrol Sgt. Loring
eludes about 140,000 acres of “Finding the stuff and said.
the most secluded, densely seizing it is just the start,' "It gives us some legal
wooded land in Douglas, said Assistant U.S. Attorney ways to go about observing
Christian, Taney and Ozark Michael Jones, who and not trespass, then go in
counties prosecutes federal drug cases with search warrants and get
"If you don’t see it from the in Springfield “You have to some good prosecution.”
air, you have to walk into it," link the seized marijuana and This year, law enforcement
Martin said. “There are parts the potential defendant.” efforts are continuing beyond
of our land that we won't see When someone grows on his prosecution. Growers stand
this year." own land, prosecutors usually to lose more than their crops
Martin said he is concerned can link the suspect and the and their freedom Federal
about the safety of Forest crop even when the suspect to and state officials have the
Service crews and hikers who not caught tending his plants, power to seize vehicles,
may wander into marijuana It is much more difficult, farming equipment, cash —
patches however, to tie someone to a anything involved in growing
"When we get a lead, I pull crop on federal land or marijuana
our crews out of those areas
and don't let them work until
the field is down," he said
"They are instructed if they
walk into one to just keep
going."
A grower threatened one
ranger in northwest Arkansas
marijuana will replace wheat get by to kids, and it falls
as the state’s fourth largest everywhere in between,”
cash crop Daniel said.
Those figures are conser- People from as far away as
vative, NORML Executive Alaska and New York City
Director Kevin Zeese said, and as close as Clever and
and compresses
for marijuana patches. And Marijuana Eradication and
most county sheriff's Supression Program,
departments lave only a Missouri is receiving $28,000
handful of officers to police aimed at uprooting the state s
the sprawling Ozarks marijuana crop, DEA public
counties information officer David
“I’ve got four road Hoover said.
deputies,” Howell County Despite the increased law
Sheriff Hubert Holman said. enforement effort, officers
“When you try to spread estimate they will be lucky to
them out to answer calls 24 capture 10 percent of this
hours a day, seven days a year's crop.
week, and give them time off “What we’ve got to the tip
— we just don’t have the of the iceberg,” said Lt.
money or the manpower to do Robert Schmer, director of
a lot of staking out,” the state patrol’s division of
Law officers across the criminal investigation. "How
Ozarks echo Holman. much is out there? I wish I
“If all the sheriff and four knew.”
deputies did was investigate Whatever the size of the
marijuana cultivation, we'd crop, marijuana to not new to
still be short-handed," the Ozarks. It has deep roots
Christian County Chief here People have raised
Deputy Dwight McNiel said. marijuana quietly for years
Local people, as well as But the crop-and its tenders
people from other states, are - have changed.
taking advantage of the situa- “H seems we have
tion, authorities say graduated from the era when
"It’s secluded. There’s lots local people were growing
of spring water. It’s just an ditchweed for personal
ideal place for them to hide," consumption,” said Christian
said Sgt. Doug Loring, of County’s Deputy McNiel.
Missouri Highway Patrol "The hilly terrain and
Troop G in Willow Springs isolation of this area that
And they are hiding a makes it soappealing to those
booming crop. of us who grew up here to
Last year, Missouri attracting some less-than-
Shapiro said at the annual
meeting of the American
Neurological Association that
biological clues now coming
from laboratory research
offer the promise of continued
progress in treating
malignant brain tumors
Brain cancer to a relatively
rare disease in the United
States The American Cancer
Society estimates 12,400 cases
of all forms of brain and
central nervous system
malignancies will be
discovered this year
Shapiro said there are two
types of malignant brain
tumors — those that arise
from cells within the cranial
cavity itself and those can-
cers which travel by the blood
stream into the brain or its
coverings from other parts of
the body, such as the lung or
breast
He said non-cancerous
tumors usually are in the
coverings of the brain and
can be often be removed
surgically and eliminated
Malignant brain tumors
differ from cancers
elsewhere in the body in that
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marijuana had a street value savory types.”
of about $200 million, ac- Growers, however, do not
cording to statistics from the fit a stereotype. They are not
National Organization for the all "foreigners” or die-hard
Reform of Marijuana Laws "hippies."
Members of that organization "It’s ranging all the way
---- Springfield have been
One reason more pot is arrested for growing
being grown here to because marijuana this summer in the
the demand for it has in- Ozarks
creased "There are two types of
The U .S .-sponsored growers. The first, they come
paraquat spraying spree on into the area to grow pot, and
Mexican marijuana fields in that’s it. Another percentage,
the late 1970s and the federal and I think it’s the larger
government's crackdown on group, are people trying to
drug smuggling along the raise dairy cows, trying to
southern coast have driven up run a farm, and they see they
the demand for domestic can make a lot more if they do
dope, Zeese said. this too,” said DEA Agent
That's one factor. Quality is Steve Casteel, one of four
another. Laboratory testa agents based in Kansas City
show the potency of Ozarks whose territory includes
marijuana competes with southwest Missouri,
internationally marketed One Missouri-born grower
marijuana, said natives dominate the
"Unfortunately, we have market.
developed a strain of “It's hard to come into this
marijuana here that to among area because the people in the
the most potent in the world," Ozarks are close-knit. You
Missouri Department of don’t walk in and get to know
Public Safety Director Ed them overnight,” the grower
Daniel said said.
Law enforcement One pound of well-tended
authorities say they doubt Ozarks marijuana, roughly
Ozarks marijuana has a big the yield from one good plant,
international market, but the can fetch a grower $1,000 to
demand for it to soaring in $1,500 wholesale.
other states. "The return to so great it
“A lot of the marijuana that makes the corn farmer sick,"
to grown around here to Webster County Sheriff
shipped to other states,” said Eugene Fraker said “It
Sgt Tom Martin, a leader of makes criminals out of some
the state patrol’s Troop D who wouldn’t do it."
marijuana strike force in Consider a crop of about 200
southwest Missouri "I hate healthy plants. Some people
to come out and brag about would kill for it. Last month
our marijuana here, though, gunshots shattered a quiet
We don't want the Dent County morning and left
reputation." a 23-year-old man dead
Want it or not, other There have been other
authorities say the Ozarks killings near Joplin, Mo., and
already has a reputation for Pittsburg, Kan.
growing good pot “Let's face it. You've got
"Missouri to well known for that kind of money sitting in
high-quality marijuana," your back yard and you're
Zeese said. "A lot of Ozarks going to want to protect it,”
people didn’t want the in- one grower said
formation out that they were Despite a stronger law
growing. The Ozarks have no enforcement effort this year,
choice now but to accept the growers say they are still
publicity.” more concerned about
Federal, state and local law poachers than police,
enforcement officers are “People don't have guns to
trying to eradicate that protect themselves from the
reputation. This year, they police. They have them to
launched their most protect themselves from
cooperative effort ever to somebody trying to get their
uproot the illegal crop crop," another grower said.
So far, they have con- Marijuana growers contend
fiscated more than twice as violence to not typical. Yet
much marijuana statewide as this year law officers have
last year Federal funds are confiscated fields rigged with
helping, they say trip wires, fish hooks,
The Justice Department to shotguns, and, in Arkansas,
channeling federal funds even dynamite. They also
through the Drug Enfor- have arrested camouflaged
cement Administration .into guards armed with automatic
Missouri for the first time, weapons
Under the Domestic Such operations are a far
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following surgery — was
about six months.
Today, Shapiro said the use
of chemotherapy in addition
to radiation and surgery has
increased the median sur-
vival to over a year with 20
percent of patients living two
years or longer
“Increasing survival
means we are prolonging a
better quality of life,” he
said.
Shapiro said studies at
Memorial-Sloan Kettering
show patients are able to
return home and work
following initial surgery and
radiation treatment and
retain this ability for three-
quarters of their remaining
life.
"One of the important and
positive side effects of such
prolongation of life to that
patients become eligible for
new drugs as they become
available,” he said.
As people with brain cancer
are living longer, Shapiro
said doctors are paying more
attention to the long-term
complications of radiation
and chemotherapy.
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Drew, Charles C. The Chickasha Daily Express (Chickasha, Okla.), Vol. 91, No. 251, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 7, 1982, newspaper, October 7, 1982; Chickasha, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc1869886/m1/8/?q=%22Business%2C+Economics+and+Finance+-+Advertising%22: accessed July 17, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.