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108: Part 2: John Nores and the Real Truth Behind the Cartels and Cannabis

Game of Crimes

Game of Crimes

True Crime

4.81.5K Ratings

🗓️ 25 July 2023

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

John Nores dedicated his life to the people of California as a warden for the Department of Fish and Wildlife. The legalization of marijuana in California isn’t what it appears to be. The drug cartels haven’t gone away. They’ve increased the number of illegal grow operations, stolen billions of gallons of water desperately needed by legitimate growers, and done incalculable damage to the environment and wildlife. This is a story you have never heard about…until now.

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0:00.0

At TFL, we're making journeys safer for everyone, and that includes improving safety on London's roads.

0:07.4

That's why we and London boroughs are lowering more speed limits to 20 miles per hour,

0:12.3

because 20 miles per hour roads have already reduced collisions resulting in deaths or

0:16.8

serious injuries by 24%. That is how we're making journeys in London safer and brighter for everyone.

0:24.8

Such TFL improvement plan to the Mayor of London and TFL every journey matters.

0:41.6

That was never a DEA's job was to go after the weed smokers. We were going after the cartels and

0:45.8

the big dealers and distributors and the people that were poison it. Now we're seeing that they're

0:49.7

lacing it with fentanyl these outlawed toxic chemicals. I really don't care, but you need to know

0:54.9

what you're getting yourself into because you're putting chemicals in your system that you're

0:58.1

never going to recover from. Hey, trivia question for you both, right? Pablo Escobar, first drug he

1:06.2

started selling, Steve. Weed. George Young, first drug he started selling. Weed. Yeah. What are

1:14.7

they saying? Marijuana is a gateway drug and marijuana for the cartels like a gateway market.

1:22.4

It's the reason I brought that up if we come back because we actually interviewed George Young,

1:26.6

episode number two. We got his last interview before George passed away and he talked about

1:31.7

starting off selling weed and talked about how he graduated to cocaine and the way the cartels

1:36.7

worked and stuff. But what I'm saying is what is old is new again, right? So we're seeing that

1:41.2

marijuana, everybody thought, oh, marijuana is going away. Marijuana. And maybe it was because you

1:46.0

had the prevalence of cocaine and all these other stuff. But you know what changed it though?

1:50.9

What changed it where I saw it started becoming and got the attention to the cartels.

1:55.4

The minute you started legalizing it, anything that's legal usually creates an illegal market

2:00.8

for something, especially when it is regulated to the extent that legal weed is. So to your point,

2:06.3

the reason I said I asked you that question earlier about the rise of both of them.

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