1.8 million marijuana plants destroyed in 10-day Kalinga operation
Joint police, drugs-agency, military and coast-guard teams destroyed 1,837,200 marijuana plants across 50 plantation sites in Tinglayan, Kalinga, during a 10-day air-and-land operation ending 3 March 2022. The haul, worth an estimated 375 million pesos, also included dried tops, leaves, powder and seeds.
Joint teams of the drug enforcement agency, police, armed forces and coast guard destroyed 1,837,200 fully grown marijuana plants at 50 plantation sites covering 16.49 hectares in Tinglayan municipality during a 10-day air-and-land operation from 22 February to 3 March 2022.[1]
The haul, valued at about 375 million pesos, also included 30,000 grams of dried fruiting tops, 492,666 grams of dried leaves and stalks, 70,000 grams of powdered marijuana and 6,000 grams of seeds.[1]The operation ran under the drug agency’s Oplan Maalab Reloaded and the regional police’s Oplan Herodotus 2, in support of the then government’s anti-drugs campaign.[1]
The coast guard said the Cordillera’s cold climate, fertile land and mountainous terrain draw marijuana cultivators, and the agencies consider destroying the supply at plantation sites an effective way to cut supply and demand.[1]
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