{"id":158185,"date":"2018-03-26T01:25:46","date_gmt":"2018-03-26T05:25:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=158185"},"modified":"2018-03-26T01:25:46","modified_gmt":"2018-03-26T05:25:46","slug":"p17-m-marijuana-plants-uprooted-in-kalinga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/03\/26\/p17-m-marijuana-plants-uprooted-in-kalinga\/","title":{"rendered":"P17-M marijuana plants uprooted in Kalinga"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_142423\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-142423\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Marijuana.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-142423\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Marijuana.jpg\" alt=\"Authorities have discovered and uprooted PHP17-million worth of marijuana plants in 15 plantation sites in Barangays Buscalan and Loccong in Tinglayan, Kalinga province on March 24, the military said.(Pixabay photo)\" width=\"960\" height=\"639\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Marijuana.jpg 960w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Marijuana-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Marijuana-768x511.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-142423\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Authorities have discovered and uprooted PHP17-million worth of marijuana plants in 15 plantation sites in Barangays Buscalan and Loccong in Tinglayan, Kalinga province on March 24, the military said.(Pixabay photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>CAMP MELCHOR DELA CRUZ, Isabela<\/strong>\u00a0&#8212; Authorities have discovered and uprooted PHP17-million worth of marijuana plants in 15 plantation sites in Barangays Buscalan and Loccong in Tinglayan, Kalinga province on March 24, the military said.<\/p>\n<p>Joint operatives from the military&#8217;s 50thInfantry Battalion, Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency \u2013 Cagayan and Cordillera agents, and Tinglayan town police discovered the plantation sites, said Army Captain Jefferson Somera, the 5th Infantry Division spokesperson.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, law enforcement agents burned some PHPP14.5-million marijuana plants, dried leaves, seeds and marijuana powder in Barangay Chumanchil on February 11.<\/p>\n<p>Maj. 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Perfecto Rimando Jr., 5th Infantry Division commander, lauded the soldiers, police and PDEA agents for working \u201cbehind the success of the anti-marijuana operation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Army has remained steadfast to its purpose of providing law enforcement support to our law enforcers in support of the anti-illegal drug campaign of our government,\u201d the Army division commander said.<\/p>\n<p>He claimed that New People&#8217;s Army (NPA) rebels are also &#8220;maintaining and selling marijuana as one of their sources of finances to support their group.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CAMP MELCHOR DELA CRUZ, Isabela\u00a0&#8212; Authorities have discovered and uprooted PHP17-million worth of marijuana plants in 15 plantation sites in &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":136643,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[49048,12302],"class_list":["post-158185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","tag-maj-gen-perfecto-rimando-jr","tag-philippine-drug-enforcement-agency","mauthors-bill-visaya","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158185\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/136643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}