California CAMP eradicated 1.1 million plants in the 2020 season
Attorney General Xavier Becerra said the Campaign Against Marijuana Planting removed more than 1.1 million illegally grown plants at 455 sites across 29 counties during the 2020 season, with 140 arrests and 174 weapons seized.
🇺🇸 California (29 counties) · California, United States
On 8 October 2020 Attorney General Xavier Becerra announced that California’s Campaign Against Marijuana Planting (CAMP) had eradicated more than 1.1 million illegally grown cannabis plants during the 2020 season, in the nation’s largest illegal-grow eradication program.[1][2]Three regional teams raided 455 grow sites across 29 counties over thirteen weeks, arresting 140 people and seizing 174 weapons, despite disruption from COVID-19 and wildfires.[1][2]
The season’s largest single haul was 293,000 plants in Riverside County in the south, and officers also destroyed 20.5 tons (about 18.6 tonnes) of processed marijuana.[2]The campaign combined the state justice department with the U.S. Forest Service, the Drug Enforcement Administration, the California National Guard, wildlife officers and local agencies.[1]Becerra called 2020 the toughest season in the program’s almost forty-year history, and said illegal grows devastate public lands with banned pesticides such as carbofuran while diverting streams for irrigation.[1][2]
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Official results graphic for the 2020 CAMP seasonPhoto details
Herbal cannabis (18.597 t); Living plants (1,100,000 plants)
Activity
Cultivation
Setting
Forest or wild land
Case stage
Under investigation
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California Department of Justiceoag.ca.govAttorney General Becerra Announces Eradication of More Than One Million Illegal Marijuana Plants as Part of an Annual Statewide Campaign
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Arrested 14Plants destroyed 108,226Cannabis 25.0873 t
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