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Grassed up: Facebook leads Myanmar police to weed-growing Americans

Police raided the 20-acre site in Ngunzun township to find nearly 350,000 marijuana plants - after being tipped off by photos on Facebook. [AFP]

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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