Thread: 85,000 pot plants found in CA. ($50 million)

Thousands of pot plants found in Merced, Shasta

The Associated Press
2:30 p.m. August 3, 2009

LOS BANOS, Calif. — Authorities say more than $50 million worth of marijuana has been destroyed in a weekend sweep of western Merced County.

Deputies raided three separate marijuana farms Saturday near Los Banos, seizing more than 35,000 pot plants. They also found encampments where growers apparently had been living, but sheriff's officials say no one was found at the farms.

Meanwhile, Shasta County authorities said Monday that deputies there found about 50,000 plants just north of Lake Shasta on three grow sites.

They say no arrests were made.

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Marijuana is the largest cash crop in the United States

more valuable than corn and wheat combined.

Using conservative price estimates domestic ...

www.drugscience.org/Archive/bcr2/MJCropReport_2006.pdf