California’s four-year-old legal marijuana market is in disarray
FILE - This photo released by the Riverside Police Department shows an illegal pot farm in Riverside, Calif., on April 18, 2019. California Attorney General Rob Bonta announced Tuesday, Oct. 11, 2022, the state will expand it's 13-week program to eradicate illegally cultivated cannabis to a year-round program. The Eradication and Prevention of Illicit Cannabis, program will focus on addressing environmental, economic and labor crimes associated with the illegal cultivation of marijuana.
In keeping with the new approach, the annual Campaign Against Marijuana Planting program started under Republican Gov. George Deukmejian in 1983 will become a permanent Eradication and Prevention of Illicit Cannabis task force, 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.
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