I found the pot farm used in this movie:
http://www.themoneytreemovie.com/trailer/This was an actual grow site on public land. I used to know one of the partners that worked the site, and it was some pretty good weed at the time. I met him outside the theater after the premier showing, and told him I knew exactly where it was, from one shot in the movie, a long shot that showed a particular geographic feature I know well. It might look like some random out-of-focus landscape to anyone else. He didn't believe me, so later I walked there, told him exactly where it was, and he got all bug-eyed...
> no shit!It's an area that has no trails or dirt roads within a mile or so. Very rugged, choked with undergrowth that you sometimes have to tunnel through with tools to get anywhere. I told him it would probably be a good idea never to use that site again, and let it all rot into the countryside, because if there were any cops or rangers that knew the area as well as I did, he and his partner (pic related) would probably get busted. It looks like they're re-releasing the movie, so I'll watch it and see if they removed the shot I told him about. I don't know about the statute of limitations on that kind of violation. This was about 23 years ago. When you watch the movie it is all real pot plants and cured product grown at that site, no fake props like in that "Weeds" TV series.
I know the area where I grew up like the back of my hand, and used to spend a lot of time bush-crashing around the place, off the major trails. There are a lot of game trails, old abandoned ones, and other interesting places. I've found other abandoned grow sites and a lot of homeless encampments. I never met anyone else at these places. I moved away from there more than 20 years ago to a less popular and less expensive area of the USA, fewer people and beautiful country to hike, bike and ski around. I grew up at some point and quit smoking weed. It fucks with my system in my old age.
