The Nation - News from Feb. 18, 1987
Government officials promised to crack down on marijuana growing in national forests but conceded the effort to get rid of the plants is difficult because “we can’t pull them up as fast as they grow.” “We’re dealing with a frankly violent and vicious element,” Assistant Agriculture Secretary George Dunlop said of those who illegally grow marijuana on publicly owned lands. Testifying at a Senate Energy Committee hearing on the U.S. Forest Service budget for fiscal 1988, Dunlop said the agency was going to cooperate with local law enforcement officials in its attempt to crack down on growers.
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