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Mexican Soldiers Find Hybrid Pot Plants
12.19.06|CasperStartribune.net

Thousands of soldiers sent to seize control of one of Mexico's top drug-producing regions have discovered widespread cultivation of a hybrid marijuana plant that is easy to grow and difficult to kill, officials said Tuesday.

The plants can only be killed by having their roots pulled, a slow and tedious task, Army Gen. Manuel Garcia told The Associated Press, one of four media outlets allowed to accompany soldiers on the daylong raid.

"Before we could cut the plant and destroy it, but this plant will come back to life unless it's taken out by the roots," Garcia said.

The hybrid first appeared in Mexico two years ago but has become the plant of choice for drug traffickers in western Michoacan state, a remote mountainous region that lends to itself to drug production.

The plants resist chemicals that only burn the top leaves without hurting the root, making aerial fumigation impossible, Garcia said.

On Tuesday, dozens of soldiers wielding assault rifles swarmed 38 marijuana plantations, ripping plants out of the ground. As they flew back to their base, they spotted 32 new fields.

"For each 100 that you spot from the air, there are 300 to 500 more than you discover once you get on the ground," Garcia said.

Last week, President Felipe Calderon sent 7,000 soldiers and federal officers to restore order in his home state and deal a blow to drug trafficking in the region. The state has seen months of bloodshed from warring drug cartels that have carried out gruesome killings, including dumping five heads on a dance floor.

Calderon, who took office Dec. 1 after being elected on a law-and-order platform, has vowed to battle drug violence that has claimed more than 2,000 lives nationwide this year.

After a meeting with Navy Secretary Francisco Saynez, Calderon said the operation "is being carried out with success."

Officials have so far arrested 45 people, including several suspected leading members of the feuding drug cartels in the state. They also seized three yachts, 2.2 pounds of gold, bulletproof vests, military equipment and shirts with federal and municipal police logos.

Mexico's armed forces have also searched more than 18,000 people, 8,000 vehicles and numerous foreign and national boats.

"We are determined to shut down delinquency and stop crime in Mexico because it is endangering the lives of all Mexicans, of our families," Calderon said.

In the past week, soldiers and federal police in Michoacan state have found 1,795 marijuana fields covering 585 acres, security officials said.

Officials estimate the raids could cost the cartels as much as $626 million, counting the value of the destroyed plants as well as the drugs that could have been produced with opium poppies and marijuana seeds seized in the raids, the army said.

Officials blame the violence in Michoacan on a battle between the Valencia and Gulf cartels over lucrative marijuana plantations and smuggling routes for cocaine and methamphetamine to the United States.

On Sunday, federal authorities said they had captured suspected drug lord Elias Valencia, the most significant arrest since the operation began.

Former President Vicente Fox also started strongly in the war against drugs _ or at least was enthusiastically applauded in the United States, where top U.S. drug officials called the arrests of drug bosses unprecedented early in his six-year-term.

He boasted that his administration had destroyed 43,904 acres of marijuana and poppy plantations in its first six months in office and more than tripled drug seizures.

Drug violence, however, has spiked across the country in recent years. Authorities blame gangs fighting to take over the routes after the arrests of longtime druglords.

Meanwhile, Mexico has continued to struggle with corruption among its law enforcement ranks. Garcia said authorities did not tell soldiers where they were being sent on raids and banned the use of cell phones and radios.

 

reggie_the_dog

Where can I get some of these seeds? What kind of hybrid??? Sativa Indica or Indica sativa or is there some ruderalis mixed in. I WANT THESE SEEDS!!!!

walstmonky

Sounds like a sativa with dandelion dna spliced in. Hopefully the buds don't turn to fluff and scatter in the wind at maturity.

jcuervo

After all these years, I realize that between the moral majority and our weird politcial/economical infrastructure, we can pretty much rule out rational communication. But come on! All those guys with army garb and weapons heading out to take down those BIG, BAD, .... uh, pot plants? Doesn't anyone anywhere look at that photo and just die laughing at the serious wage of war on a plant as innocuous as, ... well, a lot more innocuous than alcohol! And what about the prescription drugs (and the pharmaceutical industry as it relates to our perverse economy), with their hilarious list of possible side effects? Who in the press is getting enough $$$$ to publish this kind of stupidity? It's getting to be like the Matrix. Will someone please pull out the blue pill?!?!?????!!!!! Better yet --- does anyone have any ideas about fighting stupidity with stupidity? Somehow we need to dummy up to even speak the same language. Yet dummy up with lots of $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

dedbr

give a second or third cutting if I can coax them along......

Nothing new to some of us........


Some Where In Ded Land......................

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Dachshund12

Hopefully this will increase domestic production and lead to the end of Mexican brick.