Cash crop

300 acres of marijuana plants!

Many were as tall as 2.5 meters (7-7.5 feet tall)!!

Is Willie Nelson a partial owner?

Army finds Mexico's biggest marijuana plantation

By Adriana Gomez Licon - Associated Press

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican soldiers found the largest marijuana plantation ever detected in Mexico, a huge field covering almost 300 acres (120 hectares), 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 (250 kilometers) south of Tijuana, across the border from San Diego.

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