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Mexican soldiers find hard-to-kill marijuana hybrid
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Mexican soldiers swarm drug plantations, find hard-to-kill marijuana hybrid
December 19, 2006 - iht.com
The Associated Press

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

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 Tuesday.

"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 serious blow to drug trafficking in the region. The state has seen months of bloodshed from warring drug cartels, which 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, a 1 kilogram (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 238 hectares (585 acres), security officials said.

Officials estimate the raids could cost the cartels as much as US$626 million (€478 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.

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 17,770 hectares (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 were addressing that by not telling soldiers where they will sent on raids and banning the use of cell phones and radios.

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Re: Mexican soldiers find hard-to-kill marijuana hybrid [Re: veggie]
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now we just need a hybrid that wont show up in pee tests :wink:

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Re: Mexican soldiers find hard-to-kill marijuana hybrid [Re: HarvestTheBrain]
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Plants that outsmarted the police!?!

marijuana rules! :smile:

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Re: Mexican soldiers find hard-to-kill marijuana hybrid [Re: Shockwave122]
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COol, where do we get the seeds?

Also, they say how much money it cost the cartel, but how much did it cost for mexico to run the operation.

I can't wait for the cartels to just move routes, promote new members to management and return to profitable sale. Err, i can't wait for next week.


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Re: Mexican soldiers find hard-to-kill marijuana hybrid [Re: veggie]
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The plants resist chemicals that only burn the top leaves without hurting the root, making aerial fumigation impossible, Garcia said.

almost all perennial weeds do that too. that is why there are translocated herbicides. haven't these guys ever heard of roundup? it's only the most widely used herbicide in the world...  :foreheadslap:


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Re: Mexican soldiers find hard-to-kill marijuana hybrid [Re: wilshire]
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disturbing to think if that pot is circulated with all those pesticides... which has been the case for a long time...

cough cough ugh...


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Re: Mexican soldiers find hard-to-kill marijuana hybrid [Re: IgnatiusJReilly]
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Dont smoke shitty mexi-brick.

Problem Solved.

And your lungs will thank you too.


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After one comes, through contact with it's administrators, no longer to cherish greatly the law as a remedy in abuses, then the bottle becomes a sovereign means of direct action.  If you cannot throw it at least you can always drink out of it.  - Ernest Hemingway

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He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.  - Aeschylus

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Re: Mexican soldiers find hard-to-kill marijuana hybrid [Re: Madtowntripper]
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Good to see the drugs are winning the war on idiocy.


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Know your source.

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Re: Mexican soldiers find hard-to-kill marijuana hybrid [Re: Madtowntripper]
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Madtowntripper said:
Dont smoke shitty mexi-brick.

Problem Solved.

And your lungs will thank you too.


1) Not that shitty - just depends on the crop.
2) Why would your lungs thank you?
3) Why pay 2000/lb for some dank bud when I can spend 200/lb for green that gets me high?

I prefer the good shit, and I spend most of my time smoking mids and dank...but dont get your shit so twisted to think it is lowly to be smoking some mexican brick weed. Unless you are proud of the fact that you spend 10x as much to get high?

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Re: Mexican soldiers find hard-to-kill marijuana hybrid [Re: wilshire]
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wilshire said:
The plants resist chemicals that only burn the top leaves without hurting the root, making aerial fumigation impossible, Garcia said.

almost all perennial weeds do that too. that is why there are translocated herbicides. haven't these guys ever heard of roundup? it's only the most widely used herbicide in the world...  :foreheadslap:


A few years ago I read a science article about new Coca strains being resistant to RoundUp.  Apparently a gene can be modified to make a plant resistant to RoundUp (RoundUp Ready) and the article was investigating whether the Coca was genetically engineered, or had evolved RoundUp resistance.  Maybe the same thing is happening with Cannabis.


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Re: Mexican soldiers find hard-to-kill marijuana hybrid [Re: funkyjunky]
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if that's true, they better let those coca and cannabis growers know that they are breaking the law by using monsanto's patented technology.


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Re: Mexican soldiers find hard-to-kill marijuana hybrid [Re: wilshire]
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I can't wait until this massive assault fails . . . one more point for legalization.

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Re: Mexican soldiers find hard-to-kill marijuana hybrid [Re: dedjam]
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refer to my post.


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