You Think 300 Pot Plants is a lot…

Nearly 300 acres of marijuana was discovered under shade cloth in the desert south of Ensenada, Mexico. The cloth covered plants as tall as 7 feet and some were nearly ready to harvest. At about the size of 225 football fields, the plantation is believed to be the biggest ever found in Mexico. There were around 60 people tending the plants when they were discovered but most were able to flee.

According to the New York Times article, General Alfonso Duarte of the Mexican army said the crop “ould have yielded about 120 tons and was worth about $160 million.”

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JAMES
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JAMES
12 years ago

<—-WAS GONNA MAKE A CAMMO JOKE BUT…..THINK IT'S ON GOOGLE EARTH?

Staff
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12 years ago
Reply to  JAMES

Google earth is out of date, I think. We haven’t had a new photo here for 6 years maybe? I’m guessing this is a newish place.

Ben Schill
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Ben Schill
12 years ago

This is certainly not 300 acres… 40 maybe.

Ben Schill
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Ben Schill
12 years ago

This is certainly not 300 acres… 40 maybe.
Well… maybe more than 40…

Twistedsteel
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Twistedsteel
12 years ago

I bet its pretty damn close

Staff
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12 years ago

Looks plenty big to me…

pot math
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pot math
12 years ago

300 acres to 120 metric tons or about 50 square feet per lb. $160 million per 120 metric tons or $600 per lb. Over 1,000 lbs per acre, over $600k per acre.

13,000 Humboldt 215 patients worth of 10x10s.

M.E.
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M.E.
12 years ago

I wonder whats gonna happen to all that pot?

Staff
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12 years ago
Reply to  M.E.

They say they’re going to burn it.

pot math
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pot math
12 years ago

160,000 patients. Sorry, mis-pot-calculated.

Staff
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12 years ago
Reply to  pot math

Someone at the 420 times calculated that this patch would have yielded about a half an ounce of pot per “each of 10 million marijuana smokers in the U.S”

pot math
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pot math
12 years ago

Total Mexican annual output 25,000(?) metric tons. 120 / 25,000 or 0.48%.

100 days in the Mexican growing season. Two 300 acres busts per day to eradicate 100%.

Harry
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Harry
12 years ago

At least they “put em in the sun” 🙂

Ben Schill
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Ben Schill
12 years ago

300 acres is a half mile by a mile… actually 320.

Twistedsteel
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Twistedsteel
12 years ago

I was thinkin it looked pretty close to a mile left to right, hard to tell the other direction.