Forty years on, ISP's Marijuana Eradication Team is still at work to end illegal grows

ALLEN COUNTY, Ind. (WANE) ---Back in the 1980s and 90s during the federal government’s war on drugs, the Indiana State Police formed the Marijuana Eradication Team.The state’s effort that started in 1985 was sprawling with each county having its own team.Statistic from the Indiana State Police Marijuana Eradication Team.
Nowadays, there are three troopers assigned full-time to the task of eradicating the plant from the state, according to Sgt. Wes Rowlader, public information officer