Anyone else go Mushroom Hunting?

So just out of curiosity where do you get your information from?
I've known a few shroom hunters and none I know ever carried guns.
As far as the growers in N. Cal. they be Americans. True they use booby traps and such to protect their crops, but they are not Mexican drug cartel's.

Interesting articles even if the ones on shrooms where over 10 years old.
Also the shroom ones where on basically one location and not about hunting throughout the US. Interesting that the problem with guns came into play when the Asian immigrants started hunting.

As far as the pot articles I didn't read them and I'll tell you why.
Most all of what you read about cannabis growing in the newspapers is stuff that is fabricated either by the government or the news media.
In Cal. and many, many other states growing cannabis is what supports the local economy and is done by the locals. It is the number one cash crop in the US.
Marijuana Production: Comparison with other Cash Crops

As you can see from that article it is in the top 5 cash crops in 39 different states.
In the 30's when William Randolph Hearst saw the potential threat that Hemp was to his paper industry he started writing articles in his newspapers about the dangers of marijuana. At that time cannabis was legal and because marijuana was a Mexican slang word for it, nobody knew what this new dangerous drug was that he wrote about. The articles where all about Mexicans and Blacks smoking marijuana then raping and killing white women, or just going insane. Watch the movie Reefer Madness and you will see what the government was trying to do then. Sadly they still use the same outdated tactics and still try to blame the Mexicans and Blacks.

Now I'm not saying the Mexicans aren't trying to cut in out in Cali. but I don't believe the locals out there are giving up their business without a fight. Also it is hard to raise support with the people when it is the people the government is trying to shut down. Much easier to get that support by saying it's Mexican Drug Cartels then saying it's your next door neighbor who sits on the school board or is in the local volunteer fire department.

Of course Reefer Madness is govt. propaganda, that was my point.
Just like the articles about the Cartels growing in Cal. probably are.
Why would they want to do the work when they can just buy it from the local growers and not have to get their hands dirty?
As far as that sheriff line, that still doesn't mean it's because of the Cartels, the local growers are just as ruthless and willing to go to any extreme to protect their crops.
I'm not saying it isn't dangerous to go out wandering in the woods in different areas of the country, I'm just saying the danger may not be coming from where you think. If you where a major grower, who would you want the cops focused on?
You or the Mexican Drug Cartels?
When it comes to news on cannabis you really have to read between the lines.
Locally, right after the harvest season ended here, the news reported that the State Police found 3,000 plants locally. They even gave a street value and showed pics claiming they put a massive dent in the amount of pot that would be available this year.
As usual they where wrong on so many levels that you just didn't know what to laugh the hardest at. Every plant they showed was either a male or so scroney (sp) that you would be luck to get a joint out of it.
It's all about the money on both sides of the field. The growers are doing what they know how to do to get the most $ from their crops, and the cops are doing everything they can to make the public believe they need more money to stop the growers. That includes making up stories to scare the public.

Again I'm not saying it isn't dangerous out there in the wild, I'm just saying the danger may be coming from someone you don't suspect.