(SUNfoto by Wheeler Cowperthwaite) Sheriff James Lujan holds a marijuana plant pulled from the ground at a farm in Ojo Caliente following a bust, Aug. 19. It took 11 deputies four-and-a-half hours to pull the 146 plants. Many of the plants were as tall as the deputies.
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