1.   At this time of the year, they said, the great marijuana plantations are in flower along the north coast of Morocco between Tangiers and the Algerian border.

2.   Police and soldiers raided a major marijuana plantation Thursday in a southern Philippine hinterland but several armed men guarding it were able to escape, a police official said.

3.   Police on Tuesday arrested a priest, his father and a farmer on suspicion of maintaining a marijuana plantation, authorities said.

4.   In September, police discovered three marijuana plantations in the Glee Meulinggee village of North Brueh Island in Aceh Besar regency.

5.   Men guarding a large marijuana plantation on the island of Crete fired on police Wednesday, but managed to elude arrest in the ensuing raid.

6.   Seeking to prove they can handle crime without outside help, Mohawk officers swept into a federally owned Indian reserve Friday and set fire to marijuana plantations.

7.   Indonesian soldiers on a hunt for separatist rebels in the restive province of Aceh stumbled on a marijuana plantation and arrested two suspected guerrillas, the military said Sunday.

8.   Egyptian police have taken the fight against drugs deep into the desert on the trail of remote beduin marijuana plantations flourishing under the burning sun.