In 2008, the Federal government joined with California law enforcement agents to burn over 2.9 million marijuana plants which were principally located in central and northern California. 143 people were arrested. This was the most successful effort to destroy marijuana plants to date. The estimated street value of the plants was $11.6 billion dollars.
The joint task force claimed that the seizure and destruction of these plants would have been much larger if these regions were not decimated by uncontrollable forest fires that occurred last summer. Notably, a number of home owners were miffed when, during these devastating summer fires, the federal government ignored their desperate predicament and launched a similar operation in the southern part of the state.
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