Will marijuana busts still happen if Prop 64 passes?
In the past few days Calaveras and El Dorado counties made huge marijuana busts.
The Calaveras County Sheriff's Department hauled out just over 4,000 pounds of product in a drying room during a raid this week, with around 750 plants being buried on-site and most taken to the landfill.
About 1,000 pounds of processed marijuana was destroyed, burying 500, while also keeping a portion for the district attorney to use as evidence for the case.
Calaveras Sheriff Rick DiBasilio said they used around 34 people to make the seize, including police from nearby counties and people from the county road department.
That was for one raid.
The county enacted a marijuana ordinance in May and Sheriff DiBasilio said there's been a considerable increase in the number of raids.
"Realistically from the beginning of May we've had about 70,000 plants total." he said.
Though he couldn't put an exact number on how many...
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