BAGUIO CITY, Philippines — More than 100,000 fully grown marijuana plants with an estimated street value of P20 million were uprooted and destroyed by police during a July 12 operation in the boundary of Sadanga town in Mountain Province and the Kalinga municipality of Tinglayan.
The marijuana plants were discovered in a mountainous area between Mountain Province and Kalinga and were immediately pulled out of the ground and destroyed on site, according to the Philippine National Police (PNP) Public Information Office (PIO) in a July 13 social media post.
It said the marijuana eradication initiatives are part of the police force’s continuing campaign against the cultivation and distribution of illegal drugs in the Cordillera region.
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