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Police seize $1.7bn worth of marijuana in California

Police in California say they have seized $1.7bn worth of marijuana plants in the Sierra Nevada mountains.

They have also arrested 97 people over the past three weeks, most of them Mexican nationals believed to have ties with Mexican drug cartels.

White House drug czar Gil Kerlikowske said police had found industrial-sized plantations of marijuana.

Experts say Mexican cartels are increasingly growing marijuana in the US, rather than smuggling it there.

450 officers from local, state and federal agencies took part in the raids in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada in California.

They found more than a hundred locations where marijuana was being grown illegally.

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432,271 marijuana plants destroyed
499 pounds processed marijuana seized
97 people arrested
Fresno County Sheriff Margaret Mims said the marijuana plantations were a danger to local residents, as the organised crime gangs behind them "don't just grow marijuana on our public lands".

"They continue their criminal conduct during their off-season with other illegal drug and violent activities in our local communities," she said.

Director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy Gil Kerlikowske said "tremendous devastation" had been done by the industrial-sized fields.

He said eradication teams removed thousands of pounds of toxic fertilizers and rubbish from the sites.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-10811870

wow!
 
Unbelievable...
This has gotta be the largest weed bust in history. (Largest I have heard of, anyway)
1.7 BILLION freakin' dollars worth of weed.
432,000 plants!

Sounds like they were pesticide-covered low-quality toxic plants though, if you believe the feds.
In that case, I am glad that they got them off the market.
People who grow the beautiful herb with toxic fertilizers are making a big mistake, if you ask me.
 
Its not as much as it sounds if you think about it in street value since thats probably where they came up with 1.7billion, the pot would be worth MUCH less than that to the people growing it.



Don't get me wrong though that's still a royal ass ton of pot.
 
slimvictor said:
Sounds like they were pesticide-covered low-quality toxic plants though, if you believe the feds.
In that case, I am glad that they got them off the market.
People who grow the beautiful herb with toxic fertilizers are making a big mistake, if you ask me.
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I smoked once a skunk grown with some nasty pesticide. It was unsmokeable, the ultimate rip-off.
 
slimvictor said:
Unbelievable...
This has gotta be the largest weed bust in history. (Largest I have heard of, anyway)
1.7 BILLION freakin' dollars worth of weed.
432,000 plants!

Sounds like they were pesticide-covered low-quality toxic plants though, if you believe the feds.
In that case, I am glad that they got them off the market.
People who grow the beautiful herb with toxic fertilizers are making a big mistake, if you ask me.
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That's pretty much what I was going to say, so thanks for that Slim! Lol.

..But damn, man 432,000 PLANTS? That is fucking INSANE! & since they were doing this illegally, and in the mountains... I bet they had to drop each seed by hand. Can you imagine how fucking exhausting that would be? Oh man, FUCK that!

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"Prescription medications have been intercepted as well," Lamar County Sheriff Larry Waller said in the release. "Most Ecstasy is now made in Holland and shipped into Canada to be distributed in the United States."
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don't be silly holland, england is closer.. send us more mdma
 
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Methylenedioxymethamphetamine, known as MDMA or Ecstasy, is made using methamphetamines as a primary ingredient, Sheriff Larry Waller said.
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Yeah that's how we make ecstasy: we cook up a bunch of meth and spray it with a fire extinguisher.
 
one of the largest Ecstasy busts on record in the United States, the release stated.
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Didnt they just catch a group in LA with like 100,000 pills?

"Most Ecstasy is now made in Holland and shipped into Canada to be distributed in the United States."
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No, more MDMA is being made directly in Canada now days.

Methylenedioxymethamphetamine, known as MDMA or Ecstasy, is made using methamphetamines as a primary ingredient, Waller said.
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No it's not.
 
My fav news story about a E-bust is still the kid driving a fucking snowmobile with thousands of pills through the Canadian/American border in a backpack.....

to lazy to find it
 
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