NE Ohio seizures of marijuana yield '05 bumper crop
http://www.cleveland.com/ohio/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/news/1127295035122460.xml&coll=2 Wednesday, September 21, 2005
John Caniglia
Plain Dealer Reporter
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Drug agents in the seven-county Greater Cleveland area reported seizing $804,000 worth of the illicit plants in fields and wooded lots - four times as much as last year. It was the largest haul in Northeast Ohio since 2001.
And police believe that's just a small fraction of what's growing.
The marijuana was seized by sheriff's officers working with state agents to spot the fields from helicopters. The figures do not include busts by local police or marijuana cultivated at people's homes, such as 60 plants discovered last week in Parma.
"You can't just throw a bunch of seeds in the ground and come back months later and expect great plants," said Steve Bloom, editor of High Times magazine, which monitors marijuana growth around the country...