Attorney General Edwin Meese clearly relished the numbers he ticked off for the press: 342,635 marijuana plants uprooted and destroyed, nine pot farms confiscated, 175 arrests, 73 weapons seized. Those were the results of the first three days of "Operation Delta-9," this year's expanded version of the Justice Department's nationwide marijuana-eradication drive. By the harvest season in late fall, lawmen hope to surpass last year's record total of 13 million plants eliminated.
Meese was criticized for making Delta-9 a media extravaganza. Word of the operation was leaked to the press well before the raids began, and...
To continue reading:
or
Log-In
