Major Pot Busts in Colorado and California:  One of the most persuasive claims made by advocates of legalized marijuana has been that making pot legal would eliminate the market for criminal distribution of the drug and free up law enforcement to deal with serious and violent crimes.  It appears that this was not true.  Adding to the seemingly endless reports of illegal pot busts in California and Colorado is one from Joe Khalil of of Fox 40 reporting on the discovery of 17,000 to 19,000 illegal marijuana plants in the little town of Galt this week, and another by David Williams of Colorado Politics reporting on the discovery of huge illegal marijuana grows in the state's national forests.   The California bust involved several law enforcement agencies which identified a nursery growing a huge quantity of the drug, constituting one of the largest in Sacramento County history.  Seventeen people were arrested and 13 firearms were confiscated.  The Colorado story chronicles the dramatic increase in illegal pot grows in national forests. In 2017, 71,000 pot plants were eradicated in the U.S. Forest Service's five-state Rocky Mountain Region, up from 45,000 plants in 2016, 23,000 plants in 2015 and just 3,000 plants in 2014 -- the vast majority in Colorado.  If legalizing marijuana was supposed to eliminate the market for illegal traffickers, why is so much marijuana being illegally grown in states where pot is legal?