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Officials Say Marijuana Crackdown Is Working
10-30-06 l CBS13 Sacramento l Serene Branson

Attorney general Bill Lockyear says it's not that the number of pot farms is up, but that their crackdown is working. This season, agents uprooted nearly 1.7 million plants, smoking last year’s record.

Helicopters and armed agents swarmed hillsides and turned pot farms this summer.

In mid-August authorities found more than 4,000 plants in Eastern El Dorado County, some along hiking trails and near high end homes.

In early September agents found 4,000 plants on private land in El Dorado County, the owner didn't know was there. The state says these discoveries are the result of ramping up their camp program, Campaign Against Marijuana Planting.

They carried out 477 raids in 34 counties during the traditional growing season which ends in early October.

Last year agents found more than 1.1 million plants, this year nearly 1.7 an increase of more than half million pot plants.

Officers also made 27 arrests and seized 29 weapons - and that's what makes these operations so scary. In almost all of these cases, agents told us they found ammunition and campsites, meaning people were protecting the grows.

Authorities say seizures have increased because of camp teams hitting the hills, advances in aerial technology and larger garden sizes. As agents eradicate garden after garden, the state says it's the number of pot farms being wiped out that will continue to grow.

The estimated street value of the plants seized this year? 6 point seven billion dollars.

 

king cola

I don't see 27 arrests as a big deal. The only difference is that they found more pot plants growing this year than last year, how is that making a difference? The growers aren't stopping and 27 arrests for 1.7 million pot plants, i could be wrong but i doubt 27 growers had crops that totaled 1.7 million plants. I bet they found more plants than the people who were actually responsible for growing them. They made 477 raids, what does that mean exactly? 477 grow sites found and only 27 growers arrested!

They are always going to find marijuana growing but they can't stop it all. Next year there will probably be even more plants bein grown. They seized 6.7 billion dollars worth of pot, how much did it cost to make the busts? If they legalized pot that billions of dollars the pot is worth could be toward getting this country out of national debt.

That's prohibition for you. Weapons aren't involved in every illegal activity but it happens alot when something is illegal. Before alcohol became legalized people would open fire on anyone who tried to get in their way of stopping the alcohol sales and confiscating the product.

cepheus

ooh, wow, they got 1.7 million plants. way to go california law enforcement. there were probably like 80 million more plants in Cali that they could never find. its actually kinda funny because these big tough cop dudes and other law enforcement people who think they are so cool are really wasting their lives trying to fight a plant.

Kannibal

They will get more next year....more of our tax dollars to waste

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