Operation Green Merchant

Operation Green Merchant
Part of the War on Drugs
Date1988 – 1992
Location
46 US states
Result 1,698 arrests, seizure of 3,794 indoor growing operations and $35 million in drug assets
Belligerents

 United States

marijuana growers and related hydroponic and garden businesses
Strength
DEA agents, along with local, state and federal agents from 46 states

Operation Green Merchant was a nationwide investigation and operation targeting businesses advertising specialized horticultural equipment that was supposedly used to grow cannabis in the 1990s.