CAMP eradicated 4.3 million cannabis plants in 2010
California's Campaign Against Marijuana Planting reported 4,320,314 plant seizures in the 2010 season, slightly below the 2009 record of 4,463,917. CAMP put the destroyed crop's wholesale value at $17.2 billion, more than four times the state's estimated annual consumption.
California’s Campaign Against Marijuana Planting (CAMP) reported 4,320,314
plant seizures in the 2010 season, slightly less than the all-time record of
4,463,917 set in 2009.[1][2]CAMP estimated the destroyed crop’s wholesale
value at $17.2 billion, working out to $4,000 per plant and over a pound per
plant.[1][2]
At that rate the marijuana destroyed amounted to more than four times
California’s estimated annual consumption of one million pounds a year, and
CAMP’s haul had grown tenfold since 2002-2003.[1][2]The leading counties
were Mendocino with 572,680 plants, Tuolumne with 411,004, Lake with 374,958,
Shasta with 325,480 and Tehama with 312,574.[1][2]
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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.
