// Definition
A 1991 US federal military operation in Humboldt County, California that deployed troops for cannabis eradication, serving as a demonstration operation to justify similar coca eradication demands in Andean nations.
// From the Episode
Dr. Corva discovered through his geopolitical drug war research that Operation Green Sweep was directly connected to US foreign policy in Bolivia and Latin America. Andean leaders were pushing back on coca eradication, arguing the US didn't police its own cannabis farmers. George H.W. Bush authorized military deployment in Humboldt to demonstrate that democracies could use armies for drug enforcement. This drove the intensification of cannabis eradication across Hawaii, Oregon, and Kentucky.