U.S. Says Mexico Marijuana, Opium Increase in 2003

[Eye and Monkey]

http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/news/news-mexico-usa-drugs.html

By REUTERS
Published: April 6, 2004
Filed at 10:39 p.m. ET

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Marijuana and opium-poppy cultivation rose dramatically in Mexico in 2003 despite the Mexican government's aggressive eradication programs, the State Department said on Tuesday.

State Department estimates show a 78 percent increase in the cultivation of opium poppies, used to make heroin; and a 70 percent rise in marijuana cultivation in Mexico, because of ``unusually favorable growing conditions'' and stepped-up planting by drug traffickers.

Land under cultivation with marijuana increased to 18,530 acres in 2003 from 10,870 in 2002. Opium-poppy cultivation rose to 11,860 acres, from 6,670 the State Department said in a statement.

[DenverDem]

1. There is a God.

We are going to need a lot of weed and black tar smack to get over the horrors of this war.

Now that's some free trade I can get behind.

[Laughing Mirror]

2. Does anyone know if marijuana opium and heroin (Afghanistan)

use is on the rise in the US over the past year or so?

[0rganism]

5. I don't see why it wouldn't be

A lot more of us are out of work, so we don't have to take those random piss-tests anymore. It's a great way to pass the time between job-loss and eviction.

[madrchsod]

3. more shit grass from mexico

and brown smack..they can keep both

[DenverDem]

4. Why import when the shizzle grown domestically kicks ass?

Don't know about domestic poppies.

[sweetheart]

6. I love mexican sense

sensamilla with little green hairs... very bright high, as lucid
as the best hawaiian bud.... too bad you've only gotten shit weed
from Mexico.... Perhaps you've simply not met the right person. :-)