Cops Destroy Almost $2 Billion Worth of Weed in California 4.36K Jeff Neumann 07/30/10 04:20AM Filed to: Drugs Drugs California weed Police Marijuana Police in California over the last three weeks have arrested 100 people and destroyed 432,000 marijuana plants worth $1.7 billion in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. Perhaps they should have put it toward the state's $19 billion budget deficit. [BBC]