Building a Better Mousetrap Pot Plant
Mexican Soldiers Find Hybrid Pot Plants
Thousands of soldiers sent to seize control of one of Mexico’s top drug-producing regions have discovered widespread cultivation of a hybrid marijuana plant that is easy to grow and difficult to kill, officials said Tuesday.
The plants can only be killed by having their roots pulled, a slow and tedious task, Army Gen. Manuel Garcia told The Associated Press, one of four media outlets allowed to accompany soldiers on the daylong raid.
“Before we could cut the plant and destroy it, but this plant will come back to life unless it’s taken out by the roots,” Garcia said.
The hybrid first appeared in Mexico two years ago but has become the plant of choice for drug traffickers in western Michoacan state, a remote mountainous region that lends to itself to drug production.
The plants resist chemicals that only burn the top leaves without hurting the root, making aerial fumigation impossible, Garcia said.
Does anyone think for a second that this would have happened without a ridiculous drug war causing the pot business to be extremely profit-laden?
In one sense, it’s a reminder of just how ingenious the market can be when providing a desired product, even if it’s illegal. In the future, I think it’s obvious that the marijuana market will be legalized and taxed either by individual states or on a federal level. This means that future businesses could be on to innovative industry changes such as cbd dropshipping and other prospects that could all eventually stem from a once illegal market. In another sense, I get a bit worried when people are creating plants that won’t die. It reminds me of the plant that ate the South…
Hat Tip: Control Congress
