A War on Marijuana DeKalb County (Illinois) in 1968

From the October 17, 2018, MidWeek  "Looking Back."

1968, 50 Years Ago.

"A team from the DeKalb County Sheriff's Office waged  a full-scale war on cultivated and wild marijuana.

"The team, composed of Sheriff Mel Shaw, Chief Deputy Wilbur Scott, Det. Sgt. James Smoltich, Det. Joseph Salemi and a narcotics detective agent from the state bureau, attacked approximately  30 patches of marijuana with a chemical weed killer, 2-4-D."

Remember all that hemp plant planted during WW II for the war effort.  (See my Tattooed On Your Soul World War II blog for more on the hemp growing in DeKalb County.

So May Disappointed Hippies.  --Cooter