A 300 acre pot field, and nobody it was there?
Foxnews
Mexican soldiers found the largest marijuana plantation ever detected in Mexico, a huge field covering almost 300 acres, the Defense Department said 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 150 miles south of Tijuana, across the border from San Diego.
Army Gen. 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 Tuesday that they found thousands of pot plants as high as 2.5 yards tall. The average height of the plants was about 1.5 yards. Duarte said they were not yet ready for harvest.
Friday, July 15, 2011
Army Uncovers Mexico's Largest Marijuana Plantation
Thursday, June 10, 2010
Marijuana plantation in Uganda convent probed
Holy Herb ?
Oh yeah , and the Nuns Know Nothing .
BBC
Uganda police are investigating after a marijuana plantation was uncovered in the garden of a convent.
A regional police chief told the BBC that plants covering one acre had been found and uprooted in the southern Masaka district.
Two nuns and two porters have been questioned.
One of the nuns has been quoted by local media as saying the marijuana was used to treat farm animals, such as pigs.
Southern regional commander Emmanuel Muhuirwe told the BBC News website that only the porters had been arrested - not the nuns.
He said the nuns had been questioned because the garden was part of the convent.
But he said no-one had been charged yet and the porters have been released on bail.
Wednesday, May 19, 2010
Legalizing pot could help Juárez, officials say
I'm Not Against the legalization of Marijuana , But Legalizing it will not Curtail the Drug wars !
There is to much money to be made on BOTH sides of the Border , From so many other drugs And Goods coming into this country illegally , that Marijuana really is not that big of a Deal !
It's pretty cheap down here anyway !
El Paso Times
EL PASO -- A new drug war, this one over whether marijuana legalization would help or hinder Juárez, got under way Monday.
City Reps. Beto O'Rourke and Susie Byrd called a news conference to say they believe reforming drug laws and legalizing marijuana would help reduce violence in Mexico.
O'Rourke and Byrd, joined at the Paso del Norte Bridge by fellow city Reps. Steve Ortega and Ann Morgan Lilly, displayed a declaration in support of Juárez.
Oscar J. Martinez, a history professor and border expert at the University of Arizona, read from the group's resolution.
"Those who think they have the moral high ground by supporting prohibition are not giving proper attention to the disastrous consequences of that tragically misguided policy," said Martinez, a native of Juárez.
"The cure has been much more deadly than the disease itself. The price of prohibition - turning cities like Juárez into killing fields of massive proportions - is totally unacceptable and morally repugnant."
Others in public life disagreed with the City Council members, describing their idea as counterproductive.
"Legalizing marijuana in the U.S. will make things worse in Mexico," said Jaime O. Perez, El Paso County chief of staff and the Republican candidate for county judge. "The violence will increase in Juárez. Even the smaller cartels will try to get into the business, and they will try to control the drug-trafficking corridors and kill more people.
Monday, August 31, 2009
Mexican drug cartels cultivating marijuana in US National Parks
Officials from the Drug Enforcement Administration have stated that Mexican drug cartels are increasingly using US National Parks for growing marijuana. In the past several months Federal agents have seized nearly $55 million worth of marijuana from National Parks such as Sequoia National Park in California, California's Point Reyes National Seashore, Golden Gate National Recreational Area, a site in Idaho, and most recently in Colorado's Pike National Park.
I guess the DEA didn't get the memo that linking marijuana grow ops in National Parks to Mexican drug cartels is "discriminatory" racial profiling. Washington Times
Authorities say they have seen an increase in outdoor marijuana operations run by Mexican drug cartels. In the past several months, federal agents have found nearly $55 million worth of pot plants in national parks and on federal lands in California, Colorado and Idaho.
On Thursday, authorities closed a section of Sequoia National Park in California so they could destroy marijuana plants discovered near a cave filled with crystals that is a popular tourist stop. Most of the marijuana already had been harvested. Authorities estimated the plants were worth more than $36 million.
In June, federal authorities seized 2,250 marijuana plants from California's Point Reyes National Seashore and Golden Gate National Recreational Area. That same month, hikers in Idaho found a site with 12,545 pot plants.
In the most recent Colorado case, the marijuana was found in "the remote, rugged terrain" of Pike National Forest, which is about 60 miles southwest of Denver. The DEA said it is the largest outdoor marijuana-growing operation ever found in Colorado, with an estimated value of $5 million.
Saturday, August 29, 2009
Forest Service warning linking tortillas and Tecate to armed pot growers called profiling
Forest Service officials said they believe illegal immigrants are being brought to Colorado by Latin American drug cartels for mass cultivation of marijuana.
It would not surprise me ,if this were true !
But the bigger deal is the U.S. Forest service , comments !
I think Mr. Skinner , Just got an invite to some sensitivity training .
El Paso Times....
DENVER -- A federal warning to beware of campers in national forests who eat tortillas, drink Tecate beer and play Spanish music because they could be armed marijuana growers is racial profiling, an advocate for Hispanic rights said Friday.
The warnings were issued Wednesday by the U.S. Forest Service, which is investigating how much marijuana is being illegally cultivated in Colorado's national forests following the recent discovery of more than 14,000 plants in Pike National Forest.
"That's discriminatory, and it puts Hispanic campers in danger," said Polly Baca, co-chairwoman of the Colorado Latino Forum.
A spokesman for the U.S. Forest Service had no immediate response to Baca's comments.
Forest Service officials said they believe illegal immigrants are being brought to Colorado by Latin American drug cartels for mass cultivation of marijuana.
Michael Skinner, a law enforcement officer with the U.S. Forest Service in Colorado, said warning signs of possible drug trafficking include "tortilla packaging, beer cans, Spam, Tuna, Tecate beer cans," and campers who play Spanish music. He said the warning includes people speaking Spanish.
The warning signs were included in a slide presentation put together for drug agents in Colorado and the public.
What if they are Drinking DOS EQUIS ?
Wednesday, December 3, 2008
Wacky weed in ‘the Amsterdam of China'
Ancient pot !!! amazing !A 2700 year old bag of weed , perfectly preserved , if for sale would be outrageously expensive !!! they say it has a "HIGH" THC content ?
They discarded the leaf and did what kind of test ? A taste test ?
And how did they smoke it back then ? And was there any seeds ? Because it could be grown so they could do a real THC test on it ( For scientific reasons of course )Miami herald
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BEIJING -- Looks like very early residents of China had a penchant for smoking what we used to vernacularly call wacky tabackey. Yup, marijuana.
Archaeologists who dug up a 2,700-year-old tomb of a shaman near Turpan out in far west Xinjiang province found a curious pouch. Inside was the wacky weed. News reports call it the oldest stash of marijuana on Earth.
The cannabis was "superbly preserved by climatic and burial conditions," according to an article in the scientific Journal of Experimental Botany.
"The cannabis was presumably employed by this culture as a medicinal or psychoactive agent, or an aid to divination. To our knowledge, these investigations provide the oldest documentation of cannabis as a pharmacologically active agent, and contribute to the medical and archaeological record of this pre-Silk Road culture," the abstract says.
No pipes, bongs or rolling papers were uncovered in the tomb of this wild and crazy guy.
The dope apparently had a very high content of THC, the active ingredient in marijuana, but the leaf was too old to measure precisely.
So the question is whether the stash was just for the shaman's personal consumption. According to the journal, the shaman had 789 grams of the stuff, which by my calculation is almost two pounds. That would put him in the slammer for a long time in a lot of places these days. Then again, he might argue that it was for medicinal purposes.
According to another news article, the Xinjiang region of China may be an original source of cannabis strains worldwide.
A foreign reader who lives in China sent in an interesting email about marijuana, responding to news about the world's oldest stash.
He'll remain anonymous because of the nature. He said he traveled down to Dali and Shangri-la in Yunnan Province last summer, and this is what he found:
"To my great surprise, marijuana was EVERYWHERE down there. I was told by the folks in the Tibetan medicine shops that pot has been used as medicine in Tibet, Yunnan and the whole region for thousands of years. The medicine shops had it under the counter for special customers. They said it was widespread and accepted until Mao. Even today, you see folks on the streets smoking their bongs and you see pot sold in the countryside markets. They smoke it, eat it and brew a tea. It's growing everywhere in the foothills and mountains."
In a follow-up email, the reader said: "I was told they smoke a blend of what they call angel hair tobacco from the region and marijuana. Many just smoke all pot. They also make a black paste from the pot (we'd call it hashish) and mix it with the tobacco. Those folks were the Bai minority from Dali I understand. The pot pic is from Tiger Leaping Gorge...another reason the area is so popular with Western backpackers. A friend told me Dali is known as the Amsterdam of China. I totally understand why."
As most readers should know, penalties are harsh in China for marijuana usage, so don't take this as an endorsement to stray from the straight and narrow.
