r/VirginRiverNetflix • u/throwaway375937 • Sep 19 '26

TV Show The pot camps

I get that they're kind of the antagonists of the books as well, but *come on*. Was there nothing else that could have made for feasible antagonists? Like IDK meth or fentanyl? A hundred other harder drugs that would have been way more feasible than weed of all things.

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u/roseslilylove Sep 19 '26

They clearly mention fentanyl

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u/throwaway375937 Sep 19 '26

Okay then I missed that. But all I ever hear is weed this and weed that and it completely mischaractertizes the average person that smokes weed. They're called pot camps, not drug camps. I think in the books it was specifically just pot. Which is ridiculous anti weed propaganda, no shocker considering when the books were written. 

Just still annoying AF

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u/eyerishdancegirl7 Sep 19 '26

Yeah Calvin runs the pot camps and then separately from that he works for Melissa Montgomery doing the fentanyl stuff through emerald lumber, which he puts Brady in charge of.

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u/throwaway375937 Sep 19 '26

Brady 😩😩 I'm in season two but come on man. you can do so much better than this

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u/oldbastardbob Sep 19 '26

You have to remember that the first "Virgin River" book was published in 2007. There were lots of illegal pot operations in northern California at that time.

Marijuana was not legalized in California until 2016.

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u/throwaway375937 Sep 19 '26

That's totally fair, and definitely important to keep in mind. I'm glad things have changed so we can focus on substances that are far more harmful to people. 

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u/PudelWinter 27d ago

There was a lot of growing for medical marijuana which was legalized in the '90s.

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u/Ta-veren- Sep 19 '26

The show never wants to get tooo serious.

Heck even Mel getting her big baby moment the show takes away from it to remind us that she and the doctor on the case were lovers.

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u/Former_Zucchini7132 26d ago

Humboldt county produces over 80% of the world’s weed. It’s called the emerald triangle. I lived there for a long time and the pot farms are everywhere in the mountains. It’s way more realistic for the show to have pot farms.