The Nation - News from Oct. 8, 1985
The Drug Enforcement Administration, resuming a campaign to eradicate marijuana plants with herbicides, sprayed a six-acre plot of federal land in a remote area of New Mexico last weekend, the agency announced in Washington. DEA Administrator John C. Lawn said the land near Carlsbad contained between 35,000 and 40,000 mature marijuana plants and was sprayed from the air with the herbicide glyphosphate. He said it was the second time the herbicide has been used since the DEA completed an environmental impact statement last July.
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