Hybrid Marijuana Plant Found in Mexico

December 21st, 2006 in Biology /
Hybrid Marijuana Plant Found in Mexico (AP)

Mexican army soldiers destroy a marijuana field near the town of Aguililla, in the western Mexican state of Michoacan on Tuesday Dec. 19, 2006. Thousands of soldiers sent to seize control of one of Mexico\'s top drug-producing regions have found widespread cultivation of a hybrid marijuana plant that is easy to grow and difficult to kill. (AP Photo/Mark Stevenson)

(AP) -- Soldiers trying to seize control of one Mexico's top drug-producing regions found the countryside teeming with a new hybrid marijuana plant that can be cultivated year-round and cannot be killed with herbicides.

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