From: RobertB 

In article ,
 "Rich Gauszka"  wrote:

> herbicides can't kill it and it appears to have a 2 month cycle and
> extremely high yields
>
> http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061221/ap_on_sc/mexico_drugs_4
>
> Soldiers trying to seize control of one Mexico's top drug-producing regions
> found the countryside teeming with a new hybrid marijuana plant that can be
> cultivated year-round and cannot be killed with herbicides.
>
> "These plants have been genetically improved," he told a handful of
> journalists allowed to accompany soldiers on a daylong raid of some 70
> marijuana fields. "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."
>
> The new plants, known as "Colombians," mature in about two
months and can be
> planted at any time of year, meaning authorities will no longer be able to
> time raids to coincide with twice-yearly harvests.
>
> The hybrid first appeared in Mexico two years ago but has become the plant
> of choice for drug traffickers Michoacan, a remote mountainous region that
> lends to itself to drug production.
>
> Yields are so high that traffickers can now produce as much marijuana on a
> plot the size of a football field as they used to harvest in 10 to 12 acres.
> That makes for smaller, harder-to-detect fields, though some discovered
> Tuesday had sophisticated irrigation systems with sprinklers, pumps and
> thousands of yards of tubing.

The wonders of modern science.

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