The 15-year-old County of Monterey Marijuana Eradication Team soon may be jonesing for more green. COMMET, which was granted $177,000 in the 2007-08 fiscal year, recently received notice from the Governor's Office of Emergency Services that its federal funding likely will dry up.

The federal Justice Assistance Act has historically supported COMMET and other pot-busting programs, according to OES counter-drug chief Gina Buccieri-Harrington. But until and unless the feds renew the funding, she says, the programs will be suspended.

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