SocraticGadfly: Subprime mortgages equal prime-time pot plantations in California

May 04, 2007

Subprime mortgages equal prime-time pot plantations in California

At least, that’s whatHigh Country News (subscription required) reports. In California, drug dealers bought large suburban McMansions with subprime loans and converted them to marijuana plantations.

Since last summer, cops in Northern California have raided 50 such places, HCN says.

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