One of the biggest illegal cannabis busts of the year happened last week in Oakland.
Photos via California Department of Fish and WildlifeIn total, an operation led by the California Department of Fish and Wildlife found 41,082 cannabis plants and 1,841 pounds of processed cannabis, according to Janice Mackey, a spokesperson for the agency.
“This is one of the largest cannabis enforcement actions in the Bay Area this year,” Mackey wrote in an email to SFGATE.The operation occurred on Sept. 28 at the 300 block of Adeline Street near Interstate 880. Officers also seized three firearms at the scene. No one was arrested, according to Mackey. She declined to provide a specific address where the operation took place.
Marijuana is legal in California, but business owners must obtain licenses and permits to grow the plant commercially. The Oakland facility did not have proper cannabis licenses, Mackey said. The 300 Block of Adeline Street in Oakland, where authorities made one of the largest Bay Area cannabis busts of the year.The illicit cannabis market continues to thrive in California seven years after voters legalized marijuana. Illegal cannabis sales in California were estimated to be worth over $8 billion last year, far more than the $5.
against illegal growing operations this year, seizing over $109 million worth of illegal cannabis in the second quarter of 2023, more than twice as much as was seized in the first quarter, according to the Department of Cannabis Control.Lester Black is SFGATE's contributing cannabis editor. He was born in Torrance, raised in Seattle, and has written for FiveThirtyEight.com, High Country News, The Guardian, The Albuquerque Journal, The Tennessean, and many other publications.
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