• Massive marijuana field discovered
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[quote] Tijuana - Mexican soldiers have found the largest marijuana plantation ever detected in Mexico, a huge field covering almost 120 hectares, the Defence Department said on Thursday. The plantation is four times larger than the previous record discovery by authorities at a ranch in northern Chihuahua state in 1984. The pot plants sheltered under black screen-cloth in a huge square on the floor of the Baja California desert, more than 250km south of Tijuana, across the border from San Diego. Army General Alfonso Duarte said the screening, which is often used by regular farmers to protect crops from too much sun or heat, made it difficult to detect from the air what was growing underneath. It was only when soldiers on the ground reached the isolated area on Tuesday that they found thousands of pot plants as high as 2.5m tall. The average height of the plants was about 1.5m. Duarte said they were not yet ready for harvest. "We estimate that in this area, approximately 60 people were working. When they saw the military personnel, they fled," Duarte told reporters. A few were later reportedly detained at a nearby roadblock, but Duarte said no arrests were made at the scene. Sophisticated system He said traffickers could have harvested about 120 tons of marijuana from the plantation, worth about $160m. Video of the plantation showed a sophisticated system of piped-in irrigation to support the plants, which Duarte said was fed by two wells. The plantation also included some wooden outbuildings, presumably for use by people caring for the plants. Troops will destroy the fields by burning them, Duarte said. The site is the near the coastal town of San Quintin. Journalists were en route there on Thursday under army escort. While it's unknown how much of Mexican drug cartels' income comes from marijuana, recent discoveries suggest it remains a large-scale trade. Last October, Mexican authorities made their largest-ever seizure of marijuana packaged for sale, a record 148 tons found in a number of tractor trailers and houses in Tijuana. They appeared to make up a major distribution centre traced directly to Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, Mexico's most-wanted fugitive, who has expanded the reach of his Sinaloa cartel along the US-Mexico border since escaping from prison in 2001. Sinaloa cartel fingered In November, US and Mexican investigators found two long, sophisticated tunnels under the border between Baja California and California, along with more than 40 tons of marijuana in and around the tunnels. The tunnels ran about 600m from Mexico to San Diego and were equipped with lighting, ventilation and a rail system for drugs to be carried on a small cart. US officials say they believe the tunnels also were the work of the Sinaloa cartel. While the Arellano Felix or Tijuana cartel long dominated the drug trade in Baja California, the cartel has been greatly weakened by government hits on its leadership, and authorities say there are signs that the Sinaloa cartel now also operates in the area. Duarte said he did not know which group operated the plantation found on Tuesday. [/quote] [url=http://www.news24.com/World/News/Massive-marijuana-field-discovered-20110715]Story source[/url] [img]http://www.cyberpresse.ca/images/bizphotos/924x615/201107/14/350024-soldats-trouve-mexique-plus-importante.jpg[/img] [img]http://www.cyberpresse.ca/images/bizphotos/924x615/201107/14/350025-cette-plantation-quatre-fois-plus.jpg[/img] [img]http://www.cyberpresse.ca/images/bizphotos/924x615/201107/14/350026-plants-marijuana-recouverts-ecran-tissu.jpg[/img] [img]http://www.cyberpresse.ca/images/bizphotos/924x615/201107/14/350027-plantation-comprenait-egalement-annexes-bois.jpg[/img] [img]http://www.cyberpresse.ca/images/bizphotos/924x615/201107/14/350028-soldats-habitude-detruire-genre-exploitation.jpg[/img] [img]http://www.cyberpresse.ca/images/bizphotos/924x615/201107/14/350029-ministere-defense-indique-soldats-avaient.jpg[/img] [img]http://www.cyberpresse.ca/images/bizphotos/924x615/201107/14/350030-bien-quon-ignore-pourcentage-precis.jpg[/img] [url=http://www.cyberpresse.ca/photos/international/201107/14/12-4843-de-la-marijuana-a-perte-de-vue.php]Photo source[/url]
Holy shit
noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
What the flying fuck. Look at the size of that!
holy fucking hell that's huge.
How the fuck did they even think that would go unnoticed?! It's a fucking massive marijuana field in the middle of a desert!
"Put a tarp on it, no ones gonna notice"
"the screening, which is often used by regular farmers to protect crops from too much sun or heat, made it difficult to detect from the air what was growing underneath." Interesting Sad none-the-less.
that's some nice looking kush
I think the cover is for plant protection. The farm is very neat and orderly, I wouldn't take it down for that reason alone.
[QUOTE=TBFundy;31137025]that's some nice looking kush[/QUOTE]lol mexican brickweed
"Jackpot baby!" "Scooooore"
oh my lord
Imagine if a brush fire had started. Half of Mexico would be blazed off their ass.
mother of god
I want some. :smith:
Typically, you are doing something wrong when you miss a marijuana field that's so big [I]it's visible from low-earth orbit.[/I] But damn, crazy nonetheless.
Now thats alot of weed
Holy hell
[url]http://www.theonion.com/articles/huge-quantities-of-primo-shit-incinerated-by-feds,656/[/url]
Such a waste [img]http://www.facepunch.com/fp/emoot/gonk.gif[/img]
[QUOTE=Rooster Assassin;31137312]Such a waste [img]http://www.facepunch.com/fp/emoot/gonk.gif[/img][/QUOTE] Quick! fly over with a helicopter when they burn it
CJ's gonna have a lot of work burning all that
Well, it was probably gonna be used to fund those corrupt cartels, but still it's a waste of valuable resources and all that burning plant matter would cause a brief but nasty bloom of CO2 emissions. Whoever decided to burn that shit instead of confiscating it for the people's usage should be clapped in irons for crimes against humanity and the Earth.
Holy shit, that's a lot of pot, the entire country could smoke that!
How the fuck do you miss that?
I wonder how much taxes that shit could bring in if it were legalised across the world in a similar fashion to alcohol and tobacco...
fuckin hell
[QUOTE]Duarte said they were not yet ready for harvest.[/QUOTE] Aww. If they were I'd [B]GLADLY[/B] help them "destroy" it. Gonna take some time though, and a huge amount of snacks.
[QUOTE=ExplodingGuy;31137479]Holy shit, that's a lot of pot, the entire country could smoke that![/QUOTE] -snip.
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