Reuters reports that a huge grow operation was found in Baja California, involving a crew of “dozens of men” and an estimated yield of over 130 tons of marijuana. They claim it’s the single largest “plantation” ever found in Mexico, a country already known for growing large quantities of weed and our top importing country.

A quick calculation reveals the fact that this single grow could have yielded about 12 grams (almost half an ounce) to each of 10 million marijuana smokers in the U.S.

The mind also boggles at the thought of walking through a forest of 8-foot plants in an area the size of Lower Manhattan. Unfortunately, the only people likely to be doing that now are Mexican soldiers with flamethrowers, presumably also equipped with respirators so they don’t get addicted or brain-damaged or whatever the government thinks happens to people who inhale marijuana smoke.

It’s all part of the unofficial joint operation between Mexico and the United States to keep commercial prices up for the drug cartels. It won’t affect legitimate medical marijuana patients, because none of us smoke Mexican ditch weed, but there are still millions of recreational users out there…and 10,000,000 of them are going to be unhappy.