 Operation Green Sweep. That's cannabis right there. Card number 34. Marijuana Wars. Operation Green Sweep. Marijuana Wars. The US is the second largest producer of marijuana in the world after Mexico. Growing 10 million pounds a year worth four billion dollars. Enough to supply 35% of the consumption of America's 10 to 20 million marijuana users. Some of the highest quality marijuana has grown in the so-called Emerald Triangle, Humboldt, Mendocino, and Trinity counties in Northern California. Since 1983, the state's campaign against marijuana production, CAMP, has conducted military-style sweeps of the area, seizing more than two billion dollars worth of plants in seven years. The result of CAMP, eight raids, have been a tripling of the price of California homegrown. Finding it possible to make the same profit growing much less, California's pot farmers have moved their operations indoors. The state's marijuana industry has thus become decentralized and almost impossible to detect. In the summer of 1990, for the first time ever, federal troops, 200 national guardsmen, and Bureau of Land Management Rangers conducted the marijuana raid dubbed Operation Greensweep in a federal conservation area called King Range. The troops confiscated 1,408 miniature plants were worth no more than two million dollars. 17-year-old Blossom Edwards encountered silent camouflage troops on a hiking trail near her home. Quote, all their automatic weapons were pointing at me. I yelled. I tried to get them to talk. They wouldn't lower their guns. End quote. On August 9th, 1990, local residents filed a $100 million lawsuit claiming that federal agents illegally invaded their property, wrongfully arresting them, and harassed them with low-flying helicopters and loaded guns. Marijuana wars. And these marijuana wars, just so you guys know, again, these cars came out in 1991, right? In the 1990s, Canada, especially British Columbia, where I live, became a major supplier of cannabis to the United States and to Canada. It reached a point where the US government considered British Columbia classified British Columbia as a narco-state the same as Columbia. In the early 2000s, they actually, or they tried to extradite Mark Emery, a Canadian businessman, for selling cannabis seeds to Americans through the mail. And in the mid-19, in the mid-2000s, he was extradited to the United States and served five years in prison there. Okay? So this, what they're talking about here, that the United States was doing in the 1980s, 1970s, 1980s in California, right? Late 1980s and early 1990s, they started doing in Canada. During the early 2000s, a lot of Canadians were very, very pissed when Black Hawk helicopters, those black silent helicopters, were coming across the US border into British Columbia to conduct these same type of raids on cannabis plants in BC forests. Okay? And BC farms. So what's, what they're talking about here? As far as I know, right, still continues to the state on a smaller scale because a lot of states now have legalized.