Farmers Get Land Seized From Drug Traffickers
Large and small properties seized from marijuana and opium poppy traffickers are being distributed among farmers, who are better off growing food than narcotics plants, the federal attorney general’s office says.
In a report carried Tuesday by the daily El Universal, the agency said that in many cases, drug traffickers have already paid to have irrigation channels dug, saving farmers that expense.
Fewer peasants would turn to marijuana farming if they realized they are exposing themselves to the risk of arrest and jail, the report said.
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