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Jorge Duenes / Reuters
A soldier walks through the biggest marijuana plantation found in Mexico, in San Quintin, about 350 km (220 miles) away from Tijuana, July 13. Mexican soldiers discovered the plantation in a remote desert surrounded by cactuses, a top army officer said on Thursday.)
Reuters says: Mexican soldiers discovered the plantation while on patrol, said General Alfonso Duarte.
He said the crop, which was found in the state of Baja California, about 200 miles/320 km south of San Diego, California, would have yielded about 120 tonnes and was worth about $160 million. "This is the biggest marijuana plantation we have found in the country," Duarte said. He added that the plants would be destroyed.
Jorge Duenes / Reuters
An aerial view shows the biggest marijuana plantation found in Mexico, in San Quintin, Soldiers patrolling the area found 300 acres (120 hectares) of pot plants being tended by dozens of men on Tuesday, said General Alfonso Duarte.
Most of the men tending the crop escaped capture but six suspects were arrested later at a military checkpoint. The men had dug a well at the barren site and pumped water through hoses to irrigate the plants, which were up to 8 feet tall.
President Felipe Calderon has deployed tens of thousands of troops to the streets to take on powerful drug traffickers shortly after taking office in late 2006. Violence has spiraled since then, with more than 40,000 people killed across Mexico, hurting support for Calderon's conservative National Action Party (PAN), which faces an uphill struggle to secure re-election next July.
Mexico is America's top supplier of marijuana and most cocaine consumed in the United States passes through Mexico.
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good, less of that crap for our kids to get involved in. Despite what Hollywood and the pot coalition says, weed is just the first step towards other more dangerous and potent drugs.
That is your job as a parent to teach your kids about the dangers of drugs. The fact that Alcohol is 100x more dangerous than pot but is legal is the problem with this country. I have never heard of someone blacking out on Marijuana and running over a family. ask MADD which drug is more dangerous.
You need to do research before you give marijuana a bad name.
Hey Brewgeek, first step is McDonalds, then candy, then coke, then beer, then nicotine. All of those are far more harmful than pot. You think like an old man from the 30s.
Yet your nym is brewgeekNC (emphasis on BrewGeek). I am sending you a bill for my broken Irony Meter(tm).
hey brewmaster, brew me up something good and alcoholic. Then I can drive home and beat my wife and kids.
I can hear my man brewmaster's thoughts "That sounds real good now y'all. Thats how we do it in the big NC! The lord drank himself some wine, but never touched the leafy stuff! Thats some evil along with the queers I tell you. But some brew, who ever hurt anyone on some god blessed American alcohol..."
Come on brew, am I right? You like to throw it back and get real brave when the fire is in your belly? The other stuff scares you real good right? Its alright, don't be so nervous of what you don't know or not understand.
How much TAX would they have collected if it were legalized and regulated? Can ANYONE in this economy -- even a government -- afford to let the potential windfall of revenue on $160,000,000 go up in smoke??? What a bunch of effing morons. This could be a net GAIN for Mexico. Now they're just gonna spend more money guarding it and burning it, letting this potential resource go to waste. How many more kids is Mexico gonna feed because of this great triumph over what's essentially farming? Pendejos.
That was the political line in 1950. Their letting queers marry now. (Queer being a 1950 term) Legalize it and make Grover Norquest allow Congress to tax it.
OMG, how in the world can you miss seeing 300 acres of pot in the middle of nowhere. Somebody was being paid off!! brewgeekNC, where is your proof that pot leads to harder drugs? Does Alcohol lead to harder drugs too?
Too bad. This could have been taxed and paid down some deficit as well as helped the Mexican economy. How unbelievably stupid we are!
Yes, billions of dollars in revenue lost. This stuff must be legalized!
"Faith as small as a marijuana seed. " - Jesus Mexico
Darned shame...that it was discovered. Mother's milk is the gateway to everything.
You think this country would have learned something from the prohibition of alcohol era. Unfortunately, marijuana is so much easier to mass produce than alcohol. On the up side though, illegally produced marijuana is much safer than legally or illegally produced alcohol ever has been unless you consider the number of related killings. Pot is definitely on top.
Now that is grow right there i wanna know who is going to beat that.