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  Calif. Reports Record Crackdown On Marijuana Crop

Posted by FoM on October 27, 1999 at 16:46:02 PT
Reuters 
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California has seized a record amount of home-grown marijuana this year, grabbing almost a quarter of a million plants with a wholesale value of close to $1 billion, officials said Wednesday. 
State Attorney General Bill Lockyer said the state's Campaign Against Marijuana Planting (CAMP) had logged its best year ever with a haul almost double that of 1998 and far higher than the last record set in 1985. "Overall, the marijuana seized by CAMP this year could have produced about 219 million marijuana cigarettes,'' Lockyer said at a news conference. The 1999 season also included the largest single seizure in California history, when on Sept. 10 agents raided a southern California marijuana plantation and seized more than 48,000 plants worth an estimated $192 million. Lockyer said that despite the success in cracking down on some marijuana farms, there were signs that cultivation was spreading from the remote areas along California's northern coast to other areas, particularly in the central and southern part of the state. "Marijuana 'farms' are emerging on public lands,'' Lockyer said, noting that thousands of marijuana plants had been seized from the Angeles National Forest near Arcadia, just north of Los Angeles. "These are very large operations, often planted in rows like commercial crops. This trend represents a dangerous situation to hikers and other outdoor enthusiasts who may stumble upon a grower prepared to defend a multimillion dollar crop,'' Lockyer said. comments newsdigital.com© Reuters Ltd. All rights reserved Related Articles:Final Tally On Pot Seizure: 48,000 Plantshttp://cannabisnews.com/news/thread2906.shtml50,000 Pot Plants Confiscated in San Benito Countyhttp://cannabisnews.com/news/thread2894.shtml 

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Comment #1 posted by steve1 on October 27, 1999 at 19:51:40 PT

let it grow

let it grow, it's a plant.
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