CAMP’ing in the National Forest is not your typical family weekend. To crack down on Mexican drug cartels’ illegal marijuana grows on federal and state land, California created CAMP, or Campaign Against Marijuana Planting.

This recent crackdown was not just an effort by California police. It was a multi-agency collaboration between numerous government agencies, including the California Department of Justice, the United States Department of Agriculture, the United States Forest Service, the United States Department of Interior, the National Park Service, the California Department of Fish and Wildlife, the United States Department of Justice’s Drug Enforcement Administration, the California National Guard, the California Bureau of Land Management and the Central Valley High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas (HIDTA) program and other local law enforcement departments.

Mexican Cartels Using Public Land for Private Gain

Historically, public land marijuana grows were quintessentially Californian. In the past, California grow sites were created by hippie types growing a couple hundred plants. They were laid back and non-confrontational. This started to change about 10 years ago.

Public Use and Misuse of Natural Resources

Mexican cartels’ use of public recourses to grow marijuana is a major concern in California, which has more than 16 million acres of rural national forest lands. Not only is public use at issue, since these growers use public land and public water, destroying watershed for their financial gain, but CAMP is also concerned with public contamination.

Related Resources:

  • Ninth Circuit Burns Pot Growers in California Case (FindLaw’s U.S. Ninth Circuit Blog)
  • 10th Circuit Allows RICO Case Against Pot Farm (FindLaw’s U.S. Tenth Circuit Blog)
  • Walmart of Weed: Marijuana Megastore Opens (FindLaw Law and Daily Life)

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