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2006-12-21 Caribbean-Latin America

Mutant Hybrid Mexican Marijuana Impossible to Kill With Pesticides

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Posted by Swamp Blondie 2006-12-21 06:08|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 OK, there is no such thing as a plant which can't be killed by herbicides. Probably what this means is that somebody came up with a Roundup Ready marijuana variety, since glyphosates are the most likely class of off-the-shelf plantkiller they'd be using. Try atrazine or metolachlor, they're dirtier but it'll get the job done.

Posted by Mitch H.">Mitch H. 2006-12-21 08:20|| http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/]">[http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/] 2006-12-21 08:20|| Front Page Top

Posted by pihkalbadger 2006-12-21 08:42|| 2006-12-21 08:42|| Front Page Top

#3 If they really wanted to discourage this (and I have mixed feelings about the whole war-on-drugs thing), then use soil sterilants.

If you plant a forbidden crop, then you will raise nothing there for 10 years.

And if that's too "harsh," then I have to ask why do anything? Is this such a priority?

Posted by Jackal">Jackal 2006-12-21 08:51|| http://home.earthlink.net/~sleepyjackal/index.html]">[http://home.earthlink.net/~sleepyjackal/index.html] 2006-12-21 08:51|| Front Page Top

#4 what this means is that somebody came up with a Roundup Ready marijuana variety,

Possibly the action of renegade botanists, but more likely just "natural" selection in action. Lots of marijuana gets grown and sprayed. Any plants with herbicide resistance will tend to survive and pass on their genes. It is the same process that creates antibiotic resistant bacteria.

Posted by SteveS 2006-12-21 09:32|| 2006-12-21 09:32|| Front Page Top

#5 Like...your weapons are useless against us...man.

Posted by tu3031 2006-12-21 09:50|| 2006-12-21 09:50|| Front Page Top

#6 Officials estimate the raids could cost the cartels up to $626 million, counting the value of plants that have been destroyed and drugs that could have been produced with seized opium poppies and marijuana seeds.

What drug is made from mafijuana seeds?

Posted by trailing wife 2006-12-21 09:50|| 2006-12-21 09:50|| Front Page Top

#7 True Americans only smoke pot grown by their hippy neighbors.

The mutation was probably caused by the paraquat they dumped on mexican weed in the 70s,

Posted by Penguin 2006-12-21 10:07|| 2006-12-21 10:07|| Front Page Top

#8 Have they tried Napalm? Or perhaps VX?

My personal fav though would be to simply dust the fields with plutonium. Forget radioactivity, it's so toxic chemically that it would be quite effective. Of course, it's not to kill the plants but the farmers.

Posted by Silentbrick">Silentbrick 2006-12-21 10:08|| 2006-12-21 10:08|| Front Page Top

#9 Don't give terrorists any ideas. The perfect plot against the Great Satan: radioactive or toxic marijuana and cocaine stealthily kills Americans, from the inner city to suburban housewives, DC to Hollywood. Few families would be untouched by a tragedy of this magnitude. Better to legalize, regulate, and tax marijuana and free up law enforcement for the really dangerous crime. Take the black out of the market.

Posted by Danielle 2006-12-21 11:32|| 2006-12-21 11:32|| Front Page Top

#10 Aw crap, Danielle, now I'm conflicted.

Lol. ;-)

Posted by .com 2006-12-21 11:35|| 2006-12-21 11:35|| Front Page Top

#11 So everything being a profit war... how will the domestic growers respond to this incursion on their market?

Posted by 3dc 2006-12-21 11:52|| 2006-12-21 11:52|| Front Page Top

#12 I, for one, welcome our new Triffid overlords.

Posted by Kent Brockman">Kent Brockman 2006-12-21 13:41|| 2006-12-21 13:41|| Front Page Top

#13 Okay, #9, a question : where is the downside to your scenario? If you kill off a few hundred thousand dopers, America will fall? What the hell planet are you from, CheechandChongia? If the terrorists start poisoning the dope, the cartels will take care of the terrorist problem for us : nobody protects market share like the Mexican and Colombian drug cartels. And the cartels will get ALL of the useful intel from any prisoners - they have NO restraints or restrictions on getting information. And what would they do with that intel? Trade it to governments for early parole/offense forgiveness for members of their particular cartel.

Posted by Shieldwolf 2006-12-21 17:26|| 2006-12-21 17:26|| Front Page Top

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