You Can't Grow Weed in a National Park

National Park After Dark

Danielle LaRock & Cassandra Yahnian

True Crime, Places & Travel, History, Society & Culture

4.6 • 5.8K Ratings

🗓️ 8 January 2024

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Illegal marijuana operations are popping up around National Parks in West, and they're worth millions of dollars. We examine the impact of these operations and stories that have lead to arrests and fatalities.For the latest NPAD updates, group travel details, merch and more, follow us on npadpodcast.com and our socials:Instagram: @‌nationalparkafterdarkTikTok: @‌nationalparkafterdarkSupport the show by becoming an Outsider and receive ad free listening, bonus content and more on Patreon or Apple Podcasts. Want to see our faces? Catch full episodes on our YouTube Page!Thank you to this week’s partners!Stellar Sleep: Use our link to get a free 7-day trial, then just $99 per year.IQBAR: Text PARK to 64000 to get 20% off all IQBAR products and free shipping.Hello Fresh: Use our link and code npadfree for free breakfast for life.For a full list of our sources, visit http://npadpodcast.com/episodes Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	November 6, 2012 was a good day for the United States. Citizens flocked to the polling offices and voted.
0:09.1	Voters in Colorado and Washington legalized marijuana for recreational use for the first time, even though it was still banned under federal law.
0:19.0	Since that time, 24 states to date have legalized the recreational use of marijuana with many more
0:25.7	with proposed bills to follow suit. Now there are over 5,500 dispensaries operating
0:32.1	around the country.
0:33.2	Its legalization proving to be a billion dollar industry for the United States.
0:38.2	But not all marijuana operations are legal.
0:41.3	In fact, many illegal grow sites still operate around the
0:45.8	United States today and the people doing it have discovered that national parks
0:50.9	are the perfect, lush, remote, and discreet locations to do it in.
0:57.0	Welcome to National Park After Dark. Colorado and Washington I'm just going to say right now. I have good taste. You do. And I don't even smoke.
1:28.0	Well, there's a lot of other ways to use marijuana too. You can eat them.
1:35.0	Yeah, bad times for me.
1:37.0	In moderation, it's good.
1:42.0	Can I tell you one quick story? Oh well right off the back.
1:45.9	Hi everyone. Hey we've dedicated an entire episode to talk about weed. Well I'll tell you
1:51.8	this really quick story like so fast.
2:08.1	Tell me. Okay so when I first lived, moved Colorado the first time in 2014. My ex-boyfriend came out to visit me and we stopped at a dispensary the night he was supposed to leave. We stopped at his dispensary and we got just one
2:16.1	cookie, we were gonna split it so he could have it for the plane ride and just
2:20.1	like zonk out on the way home and we ate it and then we like had some time to kill
2:26.3	so we went out to a brewery and we got so high like I was in another dimension. I left my body and I don't know what's going on with him, but we got so high, we forgot where we parked the car. Like I never even drove here, was so confused I'm like there's no way that we
2:44.4	even drove a car here like I don't have my car I have no idea I have no memory. Was it a big
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