Armed men in pickup trucks rule over vast illicit industry that has transformed rural counties, depleting water and scaring locals Empty hoop houses seen along the roadside near Cave Junction, Oregon, last month. Photograph: Mason Trinca/The Guardian Christopher Hall parks his old Toyota on a dirt road that dead-ends in a forest in Oregon’s Illinois Valley. He points out a cluster of greenhouses surrounded by piles of trash, and the hillside above, which has been terraced and entirely stripped o
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‘Something’s not right in southern Oregon’: alarm at rise of illegal pot farms
