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Your support makes all the difference.Soldiers have found the largest marijuana plantation ever detected in Mexico, covering 120ha (300 acres).
The crop would yield about 120 tonnes and be worth an estimated $160m (£100m), the defence ministry said.
The plants – sheltered under black cloth in the Baja California desert – were found more than 150 miles south of Tijuana, across the border from San Diego.
The plantation is four times larger than the previous record in Chihuahua in 1984.
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