It all started with a very long hike down a remote part of the trail I had never seen before.
I do a lot of hiking and walking through nature parks and reserves.
I thought that I had seen them all, however then a Google map showed myself and others something that I might have missed. It was a lot further away than I normally drove, but I was curious. When I saw that the local police had told local hikers to avoid the area due to some “aggressive wildlife” I was even more intrigued. I like a little bit of danger! It turns out that the police were lying, and there wasn’t a wildlife complication in the area, there was a cannabis issue. There were some criminals that had started growing cannabis plants around the woods in this area, and these were fearsome and violent women. The cops were trying to warn folks away, knowing that these criminals might protect their cannabis crops with force. I didn’t know that at the time, of course, so I felt really surprised to find a major patch of cannabis plants in the woods. At first I was happy because I thought that these were wild-growing marijuana plants. Once I looked closer I saw how all the cannabis plants were in orderly rows, well organized, and some even had red tags around the bases. I realized this was someone’s illegal cannabis field, and that they entirely wouldn’t like myself and others helping myself to their product. But how could they know if I just took a little? Before I started plucking cannabis buds from the stems, I looked up and saw that a drone was hovering above, watching myself and others with a video camera. So I ran away!