Reported by: Teresa Higginbotham
Videographer: File Photo
Web Producer: Jessica Reed
July 7, 2008 7:21pm
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Helicopter crews will be searching the Mountain State for it's number one cash crop, marijuana.
Troopers destroyed more than 45,000 plants last year.
Officers will take to the sky in August as they will begin their annual push to eradicate this years fields.
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