That's how a pot grower named Jake put it when I asked him if he thought there'd be a lot of marijuana planted in California this summer.

They do surveys, aerial mapping, hunt for pot growers, watch for forest fires, all that sort of thing.

Some of the pot growers have pretty fancy houses, with saunas and heated pools.

It is remarkably rugged country, once the summer hunting and fishing grounds for Native Americans and more recently a refuge for loggers, gold miners and pot growers.

Mr. Roper's third novel, "Mexico Days," is the story of Louis Sanders, a former student at Berkeley, a pot grower and a spiritual seeker.

Since the crime of growing marijuana is by its very nature tied to a particular place - a house and a plot of land - seizing the assets of pot growers is particularly easy.

It turns out Grandma was an alcoholic pot grower who carved giant squirrel sculptures, but in Boonville hobbies like these just make you blend in.

I got no answer, just a flood of imaginary horrors, the boy maimed and unconscious from a shotgun snare, or gagged and BENBOW 111 bound by paranoid pot growers.

Talking low, he told me there were guys out there living forty feet up in the trees, pot growers with machine guns who almost shot him but then took him in and befriended him.

The surprise of the movie is that Brady the pot grower is just as smart as Bill the professor, and a lot happier.