California is expanding its efforts to disrupt illegal pot farms that undercut the state's legal marijuana market. Seasonal eradication will now be coupled with ramped-up investigations into who is behind the illegal grows.
CAMP began in “a very different time, a different era, a different moment during the failed war on drugs and a time when cannabis was still entirely illegal,” Bonta said.
The seasonal eradication program, which lasts about 90 days each summer, still will continue with the cooperation of other federal, state and local agencies. They include the U.S. Forest Service, U.S. Bureau of Land Management, U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, National Park Service, the California Department of Fish and Wildlife, California State Parks and the California National Guard, some of which will also participate in the new task force, he said.
The task force will work with state Department of Justice prosecutors, the department’s Cannabis Control Section and an existing Tax Recovery in the Underground Economy task force that was created by law in 2020, all with the goal of filing civil and criminal cases against those behind illegal grows.
The laborers frequently live in crude camps with no running water or sewers and use caustic pesticides to kill animals that might otherwise eat the growing plants. But the pollution they leave behind has spread into
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