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    Mexico says drought also hurting marijuana growers

    Associated Press – Tue, Jan 31, 2012

    CULIACAN, Mexico (AP) — The drought in northern Mexico is so bad that it has hurt even illicit drug growers and their normally well-tended crops of marijuana and opium poppies, a Mexican army commander said Monday.

    One effect of the lack of rains is that drug planting has "declined considerably," said Gen. Pedro Gurrola, commander of army forces in the state of Sinaloa, the cradle of the drug cartel by the same name.

    Gurrola said army surveillance flights have detected fewer plantations than in previous years.

    "We can see a lot less than in other years," Gurrola told reporters. "It depends a lot on conditions. As you can see, everything is dry."

    He said planters were still trying to eke out crops. "They try to adapt. Where there is a stream, a pit, they put pumps and hoses in there and try to produce as much as they can."

    But an army spokesman, Gen. Ricardo Trevilla, stressed that didn't mean a drop-off in the overall production of drug cartels.

    Trevilla, who was interviewed separately, said cartels have been increasingly turning to the production of synthetic drugs like methamphetamine, because they are easier to produce and are more profitable. He said synthetic drugs can be made faster, need less storage space and are harder to detect.

    Mexican authorities have been seizing increasing amounts of chemicals used in the manufacture of methamphetamine as well as finding increasingly large and sophisticated meth labs. Authorities seized 675 tons of a key precursor chemical in December alone, an amount that experts say was enough to produce an enormous amount of drugs.

     
    • William
      William  •  3 mths ago
      Who needs mexican weed, we americans grow the best dope in the world.
      • Kenneth
        Kenneth 3 mths ago
        Then why are you cryin about Mexicans selling dope in the states do not buy from them g to your buddies.
      • Get real
        Get real 3 mths ago
        Oh yeah, hydroponics
      • Sarafina
        Sarafina 3 mths ago
        Don't be a dope , go to rehab
    • Willy
      Willy  •  Vero Beach, Florida  •  3 mths ago
      Why don't they just legalize MJ and treat it as we do alcohol? We are not winning the war on drugs and its about time those who could change the law wise up.

      I believe the problem is the big shot politicans get bought off by the pharmaceutical Companies.
      • High Voltage
        High Voltage 3 mths ago
        I really think Obama would be interested in that but then he'd go down in history as the first black president who legalized MJ. He may not want that attached to his name. It would cover all the stimulas money in no time though....
      • CautiousDisagreement
        CautiousDisagreement 3 mths ago
        Because religious people would throw a fit, and then drink to forget. Conservatives also want more government control over our lives.
      • anchorsaway
        anchorsaway 3 mths ago
        Why dont they ever say he's the 1st 1/2 white president? Any white ho can spit out a black baby,right?
    • Snafu B
      Snafu B  •  3 mths ago
      Mexican dime bag dirt-rag was OK in 1973. Times have changed. Don't buy that garbage mafia donkey fodder. Buy American grown weed. It's better and raised by your friends and neighbors. Buy American!
      • qwerty
        qwerty 3 mths ago
        I salute you, you are a true patriot.
      • anchorsaway
        anchorsaway 3 mths ago
        Sow it everywhere....George Washington!
    • dr know
      dr know  •  3 mths ago
      grow it, regulate it, legalize it already and their weed crop will dry up competely
      • Nemesis
        Nemesis 3 mths ago
        The crop wouldn't dry up, but the underground economy around it would.
    • rickeyrhodes
      rickeyrhodes  •  Champaign, Illinois  •  3 mths ago
      support your local growers buy American weed
    • The Central Scrutinizer
      The Central Scrutinizer  •  Norwalk, Ohio  •  3 mths ago
      BUY AMERICAN!!!
    • Ernest T. Bass
      Ernest T. Bass  •  3 mths ago
      People still smoke mexican weed???
      • High Voltage
        High Voltage 3 mths ago
        People down south--I grew up in Texas. They don't know how bad it really is although it is cheap. After I moved up North I smoked some and thought I was going to die! LOL WOOOOOWWWW
      • anchorsaway
        anchorsaway 3 mths ago
        mexicans,illegals, anchor brats, gangbangers & thier hommies kill to get this bunk seed weed LOL,IDIOTS all of them!
      • anchorsaway
        anchorsaway 3 mths ago
        No people dont!
    • Michael
      Michael  •  3 mths ago
      The spot market on reefer is going through the roof. Too bad we can't tax it! It's illegal, ya know. We have to walk at least 50 yards to find somebody selling it.
    • Barry
      Barry  •  Reno, Nevada  •  3 mths ago
      If everybody were to grow a half a dozen plants at home it would take the strain off these poor farmers.
    • Max Reiner
      Max Reiner  •  3 mths ago
      The old dope biz ain't what is used to be.
    • Cindy
      Cindy  •  3 mths ago
      Mexico? I thought all the Mexicans came to the US to grow their pot in National parks?
    • Sarafina
      Sarafina  •  Phoenix, Arizona  •  3 mths ago
      The Mexican army said the crops are usually well tended.......is the whole #$%$ country in on illegal drugs, does the Mexican army protect the growers? no wonder being a drug dealer is the most wanted job in Mexico. There is no hope for those people or that corrupt country.
    • James
      James  •  Pleasanton, California  •  3 mths ago
      So, the moral to the story is to have legal mary jane and then people won't use the harder stuff. Or so you could assume. But, just what is the real 'gateway' drug? Is it pot? I'll bet most people had a drink of booze long before that first puff. So, should we call booze the real gateway drug? Actually, your first gateway drug was probably caffeine, or sugar for that matter. Anything that creates within a 'rush' is in essense a drug upon your body. So while we know we can never stop the use of these drugs, we CAN create an environment around the use of them as non-violent as possible. And with marijauna first let us stop punishing those that use it. Then, let us take a position of creating an environment that eliminates violent people from being involved with it. No, not by killing them. But by taking the insentive to grow and sell it away from them. No money, no profit, no violence. NO PROBLEM!
    • Android
      Android  •  Indianapolis, Indiana  •  3 mths ago
      Who cares about that crappy #$%$ mexican weed?! They dont know how to grow it down there. These days so many people are growing quality weed indoors that we dont need that mexican dirt weed. Those people are barbaric when it comes to growing weed.
    • rickeyrhodes
      rickeyrhodes  •  Champaign, Illinois  •  3 mths ago
      mexican weed is full of seeds and stems
    • Mingo
      Mingo  •  3 mths ago
      Imagine marijuana wildfires !!
    • HaB
      HaB  •  Irvine, California  •  3 mths ago
      looks like the mexicans are gonna grow indoors now
    • woolysuicide
      woolysuicide  •  Seattle, Washington  •  3 mths ago
      Good maybe the US could sell them the GOOD STUFF !!!
    • TOAD E WARTFACE
      TOAD E WARTFACE  •  La Grange, Illinois  •  3 mths ago
      Don't smoke Mexican dirtweed.
    • Torment
      Torment  •  3 mths ago
      If there ARMY can fly over and see the crops, Why is it that they do not spray the crops with WEED killer
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