{"id":152879,"date":"2026-01-28T05:50:18","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T05:50:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/152879\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T05:50:18","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T05:50:18","slug":"cdfw-news-california-tops-1-2-billion-in-illegal-cannabis-seizures-up-18x-since-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/152879\/","title":{"rendered":"CDFW News | California tops $1.2 billion in illegal cannabis seizures, up 18x since 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p style=\"margin-bottom:11px\">SACRAMENTO \u2014 Underscoring the value of the state\u2019s effort to protect public safety and reinforce a regulated cannabis marketplace, today Governor Gavin Newsom announced state officers have seized and destroyed more than $1.2 billion in illicit cannabis products through the Unified Cannabis Enforcement Task Force (UCETF). The $609 million seized in 2025 represents an 18 fold increase since 2022.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom:11px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.ca.gov\/2026\/01\/27\/california-tops-1-2-billion-in-illegal-cannabis-seizures-up-18x-since-2022\/\" style=\"color:#467886; text-decoration:underline\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">View the press release on the governor\u2019s website<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SACRAMENTO \u2014 Underscoring the value of the state\u2019s effort to protect public safety and reinforce a regulated cannabis&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":152880,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-152879","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-california","8":"tag-california","9":"tag-california-headlines","10":"tag-california-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152879\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/152880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}