One of the biggest problems for rangers on public lands is
pot grows like this one. Not only do the growers tend to be very destructive and great sources of pollution from the fertilizers and bug killers used on plants, but growers often booby trap grows, and have reportedly killed innocent folks who stumbled onto the grow accidentally (or folks who were looking for pot), or law enforement, or even gotten killed by their own booby traps.
So, really, if pot were legal across the country, and folks could grow pot legally for profit, this is another aspect of an upside of legalizing, taxing and regulating marijuana.
I suspect that, much like the Netherlands, there will be a boom of tourism for a while, then it will level off.
