The Nation

Government officials, armed with potent provisions in the new anti-drug law, vowed to wipe out the "well-organized criminal element" that reportedly is growing $1-billion worth of marijuana annually in the national forests. Officials said nearly 1 million acres of 191 million acres in the national forests have been turned into death traps as growers protect their illegal crops with guard dogs, sawed-off shotguns, machine guns and booby traps.