Operation Wipeout

Operation Wipeout was a cannabis eradication program by the United States' Drug Enforcement Administration, begun in 1990 and focused on destroying outdoor cannabis crops in Hawaii by aerial spraying. The program used glyphosate herbicide, combined with a soap-based sticking agent and Red Dye Number 23.[1]

The 1990 iteration destroyed 735,000 cannabis plants of Hawaii's summer crop, half of that through aerial spraying.[2][3]

Wipeout forced growers to move from outdoor grows to more expensive indoor grows, and the price of cannabis more than doubled from $2,500 to $6,000 per pound.[1]

  1. ^ a b Military Review. Command and General Staff School. 1992. p. 86.
  2. ^ United States. Office of National Drug Control Policy (1992). National Drug Control Strategy. Office of National Drug Control Policy, Executive Office of the President. p. 90. ISBN 9780160360534. {{cite book}}: |author= has generic name (help)
  3. ^ J. R. Roberts (June 1992). National Drug Control Strategy: A Nation Responds to Drug Use. DIANE Publishing. pp. 169–. ISBN 978-0-941375-79-5.