SMOKING OUT POT GROWERS FROM THE CAPITAL

摘要

Last year attorneyGeneral Eric Holder Jr. vowed to end federal raids on sellers of medical marijuana. But the feds are leaning on another integral part of the weed business: growers. From 2003 through 2009-a period in which many states liberalized their pot laws-the number of marijuana plants destroyed by the Drug Enforcement Administration almost tripled, from 3.6 million to a record-high 10.4 million (in most of the country, the 2010 crops have only recently been planted).