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The Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs seized more than $6 million of marijuana growing during a week-long eradication mission.
The figure was released at a presentation for lawmakers and civic leaders Thursday at Regional Airport.
“This today is so much more than an eradication program,” OBN Director Darrell Weaver said. “This today is about education.”
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Community leaders and police must work with the public to tackle the drug problem, Weaver said.
He explained several of OBN’s operations, including undercover operations, wiretaps, the Prescription Monitoring Program and the Pseudoephedrine Tracking Program.
The Pseudoephedrine Tracking Program is a state registry of who buys pseudoephedrine, a key ingredient in methamphetamine. A person can buy a maximum of 9 grams of the over-the-counter medicine each month. Starting Nov. 1, OBN will maintain a database of Oklahomans with meth charges, and they won’t be allowed to buy pseudoephedrine at all, Weaver said.
After the presentation, participants were given a run-down of a narcotics officer’s equipment and got to touch and smell confiscated marijuana.
Several later took helicopter rides to see what marijuana looks like from above. Weaver said some agents can spot a single marijuana plant from 1,000 feet.
OBN agents pointed out pockets of wild marijuana growing along a creek . To the untrained observer, the plants looked like bushes. Agents planned to spray Round-Up and remove the plants later in the day.
OBN used helicopters to target different areas of Oklahoma for a week each this summer to find marijuana. Around the state, the mission led to the destruction of 13,296 plants, valued at $19.9 million, and nine arrests.
OBN agents spray marijuana with weed killer or uproot and burn it. The spray has a red dye and isn’t harmful if a person were to smoke treated plants, Woodward said been lucky so far...... dont you love how the cock suckers lump us in with the meth heads..
The figure was released at a presentation for lawmakers and civic leaders Thursday at Regional Airport.
“This today is so much more than an eradication program,” OBN Director Darrell Weaver said. “This today is about education.”
.
Community leaders and police must work with the public to tackle the drug problem, Weaver said.
He explained several of OBN’s operations, including undercover operations, wiretaps, the Prescription Monitoring Program and the Pseudoephedrine Tracking Program.
The Pseudoephedrine Tracking Program is a state registry of who buys pseudoephedrine, a key ingredient in methamphetamine. A person can buy a maximum of 9 grams of the over-the-counter medicine each month. Starting Nov. 1, OBN will maintain a database of Oklahomans with meth charges, and they won’t be allowed to buy pseudoephedrine at all, Weaver said.
After the presentation, participants were given a run-down of a narcotics officer’s equipment and got to touch and smell confiscated marijuana.
Several later took helicopter rides to see what marijuana looks like from above. Weaver said some agents can spot a single marijuana plant from 1,000 feet.
OBN agents pointed out pockets of wild marijuana growing along a creek . To the untrained observer, the plants looked like bushes. Agents planned to spray Round-Up and remove the plants later in the day.
OBN used helicopters to target different areas of Oklahoma for a week each this summer to find marijuana. Around the state, the mission led to the destruction of 13,296 plants, valued at $19.9 million, and nine arrests.
OBN agents spray marijuana with weed killer or uproot and burn it. The spray has a red dye and isn’t harmful if a person were to smoke treated plants, Woodward said been lucky so far...... dont you love how the cock suckers lump us in with the meth heads..