Global Ganja Report

Mexican federal police agents on Oct. 1 announced the discovery of some 860,000 cannabis plants, weighing an estimated 1,000 metric tons, at Eijido La Sangre, an agricultural community in Tubutama municipality, Sonora state, about 10 miles south of the Arizona border. The plants were burned in the 14-hectare irrigated field, police said. No arrests were reported. Fertilizer, pesticides and farm equipment were confiscated. Authorities of the ejido are said to be under investigation. (EFE, Oct. 1)

Tubutama in June 2010 was the scene of a gangland shoot-out that left 29 dead after a Sinaloa Cartel convoy was reportedly ambushed by gunmen. In a wave of violence following this, many of Tubutama’s outlying communities were reported to have become “ghost towns” as the populace fled. (Blog del Narco, Aug. 11, 2014; Borderland Beat, July 8, 2011; Borderland Beat, July 3, 2010)

Cross-post to High Times