Illegal enterprise: One of the pictures circulating online of the marijuana field in Ngunzun township near Mandalay. — AFP
Yangon: Myanmar police have arrested one American and two locals after photos on Facebook led them to a huge plantation of towering marijuana plants near Mandalay.
Pictures of the fields of weed started circulating on the platform last week – a rare sight online in a country where police photos of seized heroin and methamphetamine are far more common.
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