In northern California, 4 young men had just started their marijuana harvest when sheriffs stormed in with guns drawn. They arrested them and spent the day cutting down around bushy 150 plants with machetes. Calaveras County Sheriff Rick DiBasilio said if he had personnel, he could do it every day. He said this during the operation near the Sierra Nevada foothills town of Copperopolis. Approximately 30,000 plants grown without permits have been cut down by the authorities in the county which is reconsidering its hold of marijuana cultivation before legalization. The sheriff said that they are not ending soon because there are so many of them. Marijuana has deeply divided financially strapped Calaveras County, among many where growers are increasingly open about their operations and are starting to encroach on neighborhoods. County population is at forty-four thousand as estimated by the sheriff and Rhode Island has more than one thousand …