Opium Poppies, Pot Destroyed in Mexico

MEXICO CITY — Federal drug control officials reported over the weekend that during the first four months of 1985, government troops and soldiers destroyed more than 5,000 acres of opium poppies and 945 acres of marijuana.

Most of the illicit plants were growing in the northwestern states of Sinaloa, Chihuahua and Sonora, the attorney general’s office said, adding that 1,782 people were detained, 82 of them foreigners. Also destroyed were 220 pounds of marijuana seed and two clandestine laboratories to process opium poppies into heroin.