Mexico Army Destroys 237 Hectares of Marijuana

[BluntKilla]

<img align="left" src="https://www.420times.com/gallery/data/641/busted.gif" border="0" style="margin-right:6px" alt="" width="80" height="80" />A Mexican military assault on marijuana farms in the central state of Michoacan destroyed 2,116 growing operations in a week, the defense minister said.

Troops took out crops on 237 hectares (586 acres) and found other drugs in the raids, Defense Minister Guillermo Galvan said during a news conference today in Mexico City. Based on a price of 18,000 pesos per kilo -- the market rate north of the U.S. border -- the marijuana, seeds and other drugs destroyed have a value of about 6.7 billion pesos ($619.2 million), Galvan said.

President Felipe Calderon is using the military to escalate Mexico's drug war and make good on his campaign promise to reinforce the rule of law. Calderon, who took office Dec. 1, sent more than 5,000 troops to conduct anti-drug raids in Michoacan on Dec. 11.

"This operation shows the government's will to use the power of the state to return peace and tranquility to our communities,'' Francisco Ramirez Acuna, Mexico's interior minister, said at the news conference.


Newshawk: BluntKilla - 420Magazine.com
Source: Bloomberg.com
Pubdate: Dec. 18, 2006
Author: Patrick Harrington
Copyright: 2006 Bloomberg
Contact: Pharrington8@bloomberg.net
Website: Bloomberg.com

 

[Pythaglio]

That'll teach those guys to try to compete with the gang that's in power.

 

[medMUser]

That'll teach those guys to try to compete with the gang that's in power.

For real. The equivilant of the synthetic pharma drug rings here. The problem is, the US syn-pharm pushers are legal. Who cares how many they have killed with their junk, besides us? MJ has killed no one, but you'd never know from big bros media.

Go to newswithevies.com--at the bottom of their page find the site search box. Enter Drug War & your off to the races. These guys are not an advocy site, but a news service. But their articles show that even the straight world is getting the low down on the BS war on freedom.

mM

 

[schmelzer_101]

586 acres = 619.2 MILLION DOLLARS! Sounds like a good way to get countries out of a debt to me, who agrees?
Coming from an Iowa farm, (for the record i hate farms, unless they are pot farms) it would be no problem getting 586 acres, and for a 619.2 million dollar turn over, not to many farmers i know would turn that down.

Legalize Freedom

 

[medMUser]

You mean RE-legalize feedom.

Used to against the law to NOT grow at least hemp. MJ as med was popular though & well spoken of till the 1930's. Then we got the freaking idiot liars...

I am with you on that though, I'm not really all that worried about semantics, just change the dern laws back. Freaking idiot liars.

Let me get this straight-The founders of the US are brilliant for giving US citizens the Bill of Rights & Constitution. They even printed many of their documents on hemp paper. Why are they not considered brilliant for their wise use of hemp? It is very earth friendly, wears better, lasts longer...has the potential for 1,000's of uses...Freaking modern day idiot liars!!! Stupid they are, very stupid!!!

Be cool, stay safe!

mM