California authorities have seized more than 63,000 pounds of illegal cannabis worth over $104 million during a three-month crackdown on organised criminal networks operating across the state. The operation, which ran between April and June, also netted firearms and cash, and forms part of a wider effort by Governor Gavin Newsom's administration to disrupt the illicit cannabis market and target the criminal groups behind it.

The enforcement work spanned 10 counties, eradicating more than 89,000 cannabis plants, confiscating 17 firearms, seizing over $220,000 in cash and resulting in 24 arrests. The largest single operation took place between 14 May and 3 June across the southern Central Valley and northern Antelope Valley, where the California Department of Fish and Wildlife led a multi-agency effort serving 26 search warrants in Tulare, Kern and Los Angeles counties, destroying nearly 24,000 plants and roughly 3,700 pounds of processed cannabis. Since Newsom set up the state's Unified Cannabis Enforcement Task Force in 2022, California has seized and destroyed more than 841,000 pounds of illicit cannabis valued at over $1.3 billion.