Where do Fallbrook smokers get marijuana?

This is the third installment of a three-part series on marijuana and its relationship to the Fallbrook community, specifically the community’s youth.

How do young people in the Fallbrook area get their hands on marijuana?

It seems that much of the marijuana in Fallbrook comes from home-cultivated outdoor marijuana gardens called “grows” and these sites are increasing.

According to officers assigned to the Fallbrook Sheriff’s Substation, they seized 67, 725 marijuana plants from outdoor grow sites in 2008.

That number almost doubled in 2009 when Sheriff’s deputies seized 119,560 plants in the...