We'd been hearing for awhile now that it had been a banner year for marijuana eradication in much of California. The following summarizes the results...kind of.
California's pot police have again shattered records for confiscating marijuana.
The state's Campaign Against Marijuana Planting [CAMP] seized 4.4 million marijuana plants during this year's eradication operations of four-and-a-half months, up from last year's take of 2.9 million, officials said Wednesday.
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Confiscation records were also set in Lake and Mendocino counties, two of the top five pot producers in the state. But after three years in the top spot, Lake County fell this year to second place, despite the seizure of 506,506 plants, up from 499,508 last year.
Shasta County, where law officials seized 557,862 plants, took its place for the most pot seized.
State officials, together with local law enforcement, seized 440,689 pot plants in Mendocino County, up from 231,802 last year. In Sonoma County, just over 100,000 plants were seized, compared with 71,364 last year.
Over three-quarters of the plants were grown on government lands. And now for the caveat...
The state's figures do not include the number of pot plants seized by local officials the rest of the year and without assistance from the state program...
No desire to share the limelight there. Look at us; fund us. From a press release last year...
California Department of Justice, Bureau of Narcotic Enforcement (BNE) and other participants in the Campaign Against Marijuana Planting (CAMP) including the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Field Division Offices in San Francisco, Los Angeles and San Diego, in conjunction with the United States Attorney’s Office in the Eastern District of California, announce record breaking seizures of marijuana from California public and private lands during CAMP season and Operation Green Acres 2, resulting in a record breaking combined total of 5,249,881. Of that number, 3,641,328 or almost 70 Percent were eradicated from state and federal public land.
CAMP reported a second year of record breaking numbers of marijuana plants eradicated during the 2008 season at 2.9 million. Of the 2.9 million plants, two million [69 percent] were seized from public lands while the remainder was seized from private lands.
And those numbers don't include any local efforts either.
Now if we only had a good picture of how much illegally-grown pot escaped eradication.
These numbers are laughable. Anyone in California or any other state can get as much Marijuana as they want...anytime they want. There is no way to stop marijuana growing, marijuana smuggling and marijuana use...FOR ANY AMOUNT OF MONEY.
Valid medicinal value, it’s a victimless crime, the War on Drugs WAY too costly, too many arrests for simple possession, tax it and use the money to pay for health insurance and to reduce the deficit…Need I say more?
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Posted by: RFWoodstock | November 07, 2009 at 14:40