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Home 🌿 Marijuana Politics 🌿 California police destroy thousands of marijuana plants in bust: newspaper 🌿California police destroy thousands of marijuana plants in bust: newspaper
Authorities in three remote northern California counties joined forces in a raid on marijuana farms, destroying some 15,300 plants, the Eureka Times-Standard said on Wednesday.
The raid targeted the Island Mountain area known as the "Emerald Triangle", the newspaper said on its website.
The region, some 200 miles (320 km) north of San Francisco, is known to be popular with marijuana growers.
The operation, jointly conducted by the Humboldt, Mendocino and Trinity county sheriffs' departments, is expected to continue through the week with more information expected on Friday, the newspaper said.
California is among twenty-three U.S. states that allow cannabis for medical but not for recreational use. A handful of states, including Colorado and Washington, and Washington D.C. have legalized recreational cannabis use for adults.
The authorities conducting the northern California raids suspected instances of environmental harm at the pot cultivation sites as well as possible cases of water diversion...
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