Marijuana Eradication 1982 - 2002

Your Taxes Buy a Lot of Ditchweed

Source: Office of National Drug Control Policy
2004 National Drug Control Strategy

Marijuana Plant Eradications 1982 - 2002
  Ditchweed Outdoor Indoor
Year # Plants % of Total # Plants % of Total # Plants % of Total
1982     2,590,000 100    
1983     3,794,000 100    
1984 9,178,000 70.70 3,803,000 29.30    
1985 35,270,000 89.90 3,961,000 10.10    
1986 125,013,000 96.40 4,673,000 3.60    
1987 105,842,000 93.44 7,433,000 6.56    
1988 101,932,000 95.02 5,344,000 4.98    
1989 124,289,000 95.66 5,636,000 4.34    
1990 118,548,000 94.18 7,329,000 5.82    
1991 133,786,000 96.02 5,257,000 3.77 283,000 0.20
1992 264,207,000 97.12 7,490,000 2.75 349,000 0.13
1993 387,942,000 98.89 4,049,000 1.03 290,000 0.07
1994 504,414,000 99.16 4,032,000 0.79 220,000 0.04
1995 370,275,000 99.12 3,054,000 0.82 243,000 0.07
1996 419,662,000 99.28 2,843,000 0.67 217,000 0.05
1997 237,140,000 98.32 3,827,000 1.59 224,000 0.09
1998 132,408,000 98.14 2,283,000 1.69 233,000 0.17
1999 130,192,000 97.45 3,205,000 2.40 208,000 0.16
2000 139,581,000 98.02 2,598,000 1.82 217,000 0.15
2001 569,713,000 99.42 3,069,000 0.54 236,000 0.04
2002 -- -- 3,128,800 -- 213,040 --

Source: Office of National Drug Control Policy
2004 National Drug Control Strategy Data Supplement

Ditchweed is wild marijuana with almost no THC content. This sort of marijauna goes by the name "hemp." No one smokes it, but our government is spending 99 percent of its eradication efforts on this completely useless marijuana. Why?


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