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For the record: 3:07 p.m. Oct. 28, 2024: An earlier version of this article said EPIC seized about 77,000 plants.It was 750,000. Two major state programs to combat illegal cannabis recently sent ...
A sting operation in California led to the seizure of more than 2.2 million illegal cannabis packages designed to mimic popular food and candy items, including Sweetarts and Twinkies.
California Department of Fish and Wildlife California National Guard U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration: 2021: 375,000 cannabis plants and 33,480 pounds of harvested marijuana: Largest seizure ever in Los Angeles County, worth over one billion dollars. [31] [32] Oregon State Police: White City, Oregon: 2021: 500,000 pounds of harvested marijuana
California's Unified Cannabis Enforcement Taskforce seized the packages during a sting operation targeting 11 downtown Los Angeles businesses, according to state officials.
Cannabis in California has been legal for medical use since 1996, and for recreational use since late 2016. The state of California has been at the forefront of efforts to liberalize cannabis laws in the United States, beginning in 1972 with the nation's first ballot initiative attempting to legalize cannabis (Proposition 19).
Operation Green Sweep was a series of drug raids conducted by over 200 United States Army soldiers, National Guardsmen, and federal agents in Humboldt County, California. [2] The operation was the first time active-duty troops were used to combat marijuana growing in the United States.
In February 2022 a group of California cannabis testing labs, upset about what they believed was widespread fraud in weed potency claims, decided to force regulators into action.
Gupta's 2013 special on the subject, "Weed," gave much-needed hope to Beth Sahyoun, a Reseda nursery school teacher whose son Armand, then 20, had suffered relentless seizures for six years. “I ...