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The paper more than. compensated for the iowball seizure rate by also factoring in a 20% crop loss to spoilage. Following the formula, the News estimated 1.8 million plants were sown. in the county this year, with 1.32 million surviving droughts, floods, bugs, mold, and cops. And while both the DEA and Mendocino County law enforcement like to say that one plant produces one pound, the newspaper consulted local grower "Dionysius Greenbud," who said flee average yield is closer to a half pound -- a very rough estunate, given a local. crop that consists of both high-yielding outdoor plants anal smaller, lower- yielding indoor plants. The paper's in-the-ballpark estimate for total pot production in the county is thus some 6b2,000 pounds. The paper assumed a wholesale price of $2200 a pound, based. on reports from local. growers, and a simple multiplication yields a total. of $1.5 billion. Is that figure out of line? It's hard to say. In last year's "Reefer Madness: Sex, Drugs, and Cheap Labor in the American Black Market," Eric Schlosser quoted former DEA officials as estimating the value of all marijuana grown nationwide at $25 billion. While it is difficult to believe that one California County account`s for nearly 5% of all pot grown in the US, who is to say different? (Source htt~//st~thedru~war ors/chronicle/413/mendocino.shiml.) March lb, 2006 Three suspects enter a MMJ Dispensary (Mendocino Remedies), pepper spray the employees and attempt to take property. A fight between the suspects and victims ensues and the suspects flee the scene. {Source http://www.co.mendocino.ca.us/sheriff/pressreleases.htm) MODESTO July 18th, 2005. DEA arrests three subjects on charges stemming from a raid by Stanislaus Co sheriffs, who reported discovering 49 plants and 235 pounds of marijuana there. The mails subject of the investigation and his wife had been providing medical marijuana for patients at a San Francisco dispensary. (Source http://www.canonnl.org/news/fedmmjcases.html) Soap store a front for pot outfit, cops say Patrick Giblin Modesto Bee Modesto, CA June 17, 2006 -- Drug agents looked past the soaps anal lotions at The Healthy Choice on McI-Ienry Avenue in Modesto and sniffed out a marijuana store in the back, law enforcement officials said Friday. Narcotics officers arrested Michael O'Leary, 37, of Modesto at the store, 4213 McHenry Ave. They are Jooking for his brother, Shannon O'Leary, 34, of Modesto, agent Kelly Rea said. "The second store was just like a legitimate store, with shelves, prices listed and receipts given to the customers," said Rea, an agent with the Stanislaus Drug Enforcement Agency. "I've never seen anything like it." There were prescription bottles f lied with pre-weighed amounts of marijuana. There also were 50 to 100 pre-wrapped, marijuana-laced brownies and an equal number of marijuana-laced cookies. The store had a menu of prices and types of marijuana, with the different varieties neatly packed in Tupperware containers, Rea said. "They offered full customer service," Rea said. Local, state and federal drug agents raided the store about 9 a.m. Friday and stayed until about 1 p.m., seizing property and cataloging the inventory, sheriffs spokeswoman Gina Legurias said. 15 75A-25