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AP - Mexican soldiers have found the largest marijuana plantation ever detected in Mexico, a huge field covering almost 300 acres (120 hectares), the Defense Department said Thursday.




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AFP - Mexican soldiers will begin destroying the country's largest ever marijuana plantation under the watchful eyes of state prosecutors, officials said Friday, as hundreds of troops descended on the site.




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Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm....Our fearless leader hasn't posted for a while....but....NAW! There couldn't be any connection! He's into seeding abalone!

He said he'd been busy.

AP - Food still sat on the camp dinner table Friday, abandoned three days earlier by workers fleeing soldiers who stumbled on their lush, mesh-covered oasis stretching across the harsh Baja California desert.




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You squealed on me????

He told me that before your comment.

But(very suspiciously) just after the story surfaced.

Originally Posted by longlegsinlapaz

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm....Our fearless leader hasn't posted for a while....but....NAW! There couldn't be any connection! He's into seeding abalone!

Perhaps "seeding" was the correct part of the phrase!

OK OK OK....

Been on the road and really busy the last several days, including driving over 1500 miles.

Seriously though, if this were my operation I would have paid these guys off long before it ever made a news cycle...

A looong time ago a friend of mine from...a town near there...told me a hysterical story.

Seems that an officer with the 67th was missing some of his men for a while, so he organized a search party to go find them. Again; somewhere near that general area.

Finds them goofing off/living it up at some weed grow.

What a pity!

I wonder how far away they move folks "downwind"???

AP - Hundreds of Mexican soldiers have finished burning thousands of plants at a massive marijuana plantation discovered last week in Baja California.

The Mexican government has called the 300-acre (120 hectare) marijuana field the biggest such plantation ever found in the country.

The field had escaped detection for several months in part because it was covered by shade cloth.

The Defense Department said Monday that 472 soldiers pulled up all the plants. They burned them in giant bonfires at the clandestine plantation south of the town of San Quintin.

The army says the plantation was capable of producing about 120 tons of marijuana worth about 1.8 billion pesos ($160 million).


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Originally Posted by Noticias

AP - Hundreds of Mexican soldiers have finished burning thousands of plants at a massive marijuana plantation discovered last week in Baja California.

The Mexican government has called the 300-acre (120 hectare) marijuana field the biggest such plantation ever found in the country.

The field had escaped detection for several months in part because it was covered by shade cloth.

The Defense Department said Monday that 472 soldiers pulled up all the plants. They burned them in giant bonfires at the clandestine plantation south of the town of San Quintin.

The army says the plantation was capable of producing about 120 tons of marijuana worth about 1.8 billion pesos ($160 million).


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More the pity. And for the record, I do not do pot. An incredible waste of resources to try and eradicate the use of something that can be grown even in flower pots in a condo.

Biggest Ever Marijuana Field Belonged to 'El Chapo'

Written by Nathan Jones | InsightCrime.org
Monday, 18 July 2011 15:03

Mexico's Army has said that a 120 hectare marijuana farm, the largest ever discovered in the country, was owned by drug lord Joaquin Guzman, alias 'El Chapo.'

Military sources have revealed that the huge drug plantation was operated by the Sinaloa Cartel, headed by the infamous Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, according to media reports.

The marijuana fields were discovered in farmland off the Guerrero Negro-Ensenada highway in Baja California,

Soldiers detained 16 farmers working on the plantation, though it is thought that it had a workforce of over 100 people.

According to the government, the plantation had a capacity to produce 20 tons of marijuana each month.

On Friday, the army initiated the process of destroying the plantation. It is estimated that the eradication process will take 60 soldiers around 15 days to complete.

President Felipe Calderon congratulated the Secretariat of National Defense for dealing a "big blow" to those who were operating the plantation.

The Sinaloa Cartel, once dominant in drug trafficking operations throughout Baja California, is now losing ground. Interpol recently stated that drug exports from the Sinaloa cartel have declined in recent years, as Zetas and other groups gain power.


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07/18/11—On Tuesday July 12, military personnel discovered what is believed to be the largest known marijuana plantation in Mexico’s history, which Mexico’s Secretary of National Defense (Secretaría de la Defensa Nacional, Sedena) reported is owned by drug lord Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán and the Sinaloa Cartel. *The location of the plantation is just over 250 … Read more

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Trasladan detenidos de "megaplantÃ*o" a Tijuana - AFN Tijuana | Agencia Fronteriza de Noticias




I'd be pretty damn nervous having my back hanging out like that on the sides.

*sWaNK* accomodations, though.

Gringlish

"...It can not be
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And I had planned to bring a friend to the hotel and take advantage of pesotes 350 per night..."