How Uninhabited Terrain Became a Hotbed for Black Market Marijuana

By Brad Jones SISKIYOU COUNTY, Calif.—The air is thick with the unmistakable pungent stench of cannabis plants in a massive network of illegal grow operations in a rural part of northern California, as Mount Shasta looms on the horizon. Gated-off with chain link and wire fences—some with tattered shreds of privacy screening—the properties northeast of […]