354: He Went To "Murder Mountain" To Work & Never Came Home... Dark Secrets Remain

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🗓️ 17 July 2025

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0:00.0	Hey, what is up, everybody?
0:17.7	And welcome back to another episode of Mile Higher podcast, episode 353.
0:24.0	And today, guys, we have a very interesting topic for you all, something that...
0:28.5	It's very mile higher.
0:29.6	It is very mile higher.
0:31.9	But it's also...
0:34.0	It's very sad, very scary.
0:37.0	And I've learned a lot about just this area and the cultivation of
0:44.0	marijuana and how everything has changed so vastly over the years. And I thought, I mean, I always knew
0:51.2	that legalization came with a lot of problems. I didn't realize how detrimental it was and how many lives it destroyed.
0:57.1	So that element of it was really interesting.
0:58.8	But we are also, so we're talking about murder, mountain, and the Emerald Triangle, which is something I'd always heard of, but I never really dove in and got to learn as much as we did.
1:09.5	Which is in northern California, way north of San Francisco, up in the mountains
1:15.5	and the redwood forest up there.
1:17.1	Yeah.
1:17.5	It's kind of this, I mean, really, it's still the Wild West.
1:21.6	Yeah, for sure.
1:22.3	But that's where it kind of started, the history of it's deep.
1:24.5	And it's where basically cannabis cultivation really got started here in the U.S.
1:30.6	And it's changed a lot though.
1:32.5	Yeah.
1:33.0	Well, it's went through a lot of different phases.
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