The Emperor Wears No Clothes

by Jack Herer

Surveillance and Seizures

In rural California, where cannabis growing has supported whole communities, the well armed CAMP forces go into a thick forest discovering 15-foot tall, lush, hearty eight month old plants. These are hacked down, piled up, and smothered with gasoline and rubber tires. Uncured, they burn slowly.

Elsewhere, a helicopter pilot circles over a neighborhood, peering into a heat sensitive camera pointed at a house. “We’re looking for the indoor sun,” he explains matter-offactly.

“We only pursue specific objectives,” houses where grow lights have been bought or
some other tangible basis exists to suspect “manufacturing a controlled substance”: a felony.

“Look, there’s the light from the house.” His thermal-sensitive screen shows heat leaking out from under the eaves of the house. Site confirmed.

Next they obtain a search warrant, raid the property, seize the house under civil proceedings, and prosecute its inhabitants under criminal law.