State authorities destroy 1 million marijuana plants in crackdown on illegal operations
California law enforcement agents have seized more than 1 million illegally grown marijuana plants this year in an attempt to curb illicit cultivation of the cash crop that continues to undercut the state’s struggling legal market for pot, authorities said Monday. … The siphoning of water by illegal pot farmers increasingly has become an concern amid California’s worsening drought. The attorney general also said that insecticides banned in the state were found at grow sites, some of them so toxic that they kill wildlife and poison groundwater and public waterways.
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