Police have seized a corpus amount of marijuana over the weekend in Central California and destroyed almost all of it. According to authorities reports, over 10 million plants, which were being grown as legal hemp contained THC, the psychoactive ingredient in marijuana.
When The Kern County Sheriff’s Office received several calls regarding tips of the cover-up hemp, they issued multiple search warrants in various fields. Each field was filled with skyscraping plants, totaling 459 acres, in the Arvin area on Oct. 25. The current discovery was apart of a joint investigation with the FBI and California Department of Fish and Wildfire.
The collected evidence was tested for the THC compound and tested “well above” the federal limit of 0.3 percent of THC for industrial hemp. Authorities announced the plants were mostly cannabis and worth about $1 billion on the black market. Police refuse to name the grower, citing the ongoing probe and further connections to the investigation. \
According to mayor Bakersfield, hemp cultivation is permitted in Kern County; however, pot production, sale, and processing are all but illegal.
The Medicinal and Adult-Use Cannabis Regulation and Safety Act (MAUCRSA), which creates a current framework for the regulation of commercial medicinal and adult-use cannabis in California, is also investigating the massive seizure.
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