California CAMP eradicated 1,675,681 cannabis plants in the 2006 season
Attorney General Bill Lockyer said the Campaign Against Marijuana Planting removed 1,675,681 illegally cultivated plants in 477 raids across 34 counties during the 2006 growing season, with 27 arrests and 29 weapons seized; the department valued the crop at more than $6.7 billion.
🇺🇸 California (34 counties) · California, United States
On 30 October 2006 Attorney General Bill Lockyer said California’s Campaign Against Marijuana
Planting (CAMP) had eradicated 1,675,681 illegally cultivated cannabis plants during the 2006
season, a record that exceeded the previous year by 540,989 plants.[1][2]CAMP, led by the
Department of Justice’s Bureau of Narcotic Enforcement with federal and local partners, valued the
removed crop at more than $6.7 billion.[1][2]
Season totals
Lockyer said teams conducted 477 raids in 34 counties during the traditional outdoor season from
late July through early October.[1][2]Officers made 27 arrests and seized 29 weapons.[1][2]About
80 percent of the plants were on public land such as state and national parks and forests; the rest
were on private property including ranches and vineyards.[1][2]The attorney general’s office said
five regional teams worked the season and reported no officer-involved shootings or fatalities.[1][2]
Case data
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California's Unified Cannabis Enforcement Task Force seized or destroyed 55,308 pounds of illicit cannabis and eradicated 108,226 plants between July and September 2026, Governor Gavin Newsom's office said. The quarter's operations across nine counties led to 14 arrests, nine firearms and $29,215 in cash, and brought the state's nine-month total to more than $230 million in cannabis.
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Humboldt County sheriff's deputies eradicated about 3,102 cannabis plants and destroyed about 36 pounds of processed cannabis at two unlicensed grows near Alderpoint and Garberville on 5 and 6 October 2026. No arrests were made and the cases were sent to the District Attorney for review.
On 25 September 2026 New Mexico's Regulation and Licensing Department Enforcement Bureau and the Organized Crime Commission raided 102 Howell Road in Estancia, Torrance County, seizing and destroying about 6,300 mature cannabis plants in 21 greenhouses weighing an estimated 21,000 pounds. The case remains open for prosecution.
On 16 September 2026 U.S. Forest Service officers, Glenn County’s Major Crimes Task Force and a Forest Service helicopter team eradicated about 700 cannabis plants from an illegal grow in remote Mendocino National Forest. No arrests were reported.
