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Tons of marijuana — 134 tons, in fact — sat on a makeshift platform Wednesday on a military base in Tijuana, Mexico. And then, after a military band played, after speeches by Army and police commanders, after a laborer sprayed fuel on the verdant, pungent bales, after college students and dignitaries and a throng of journalists took aim with their cameras, it was lit on fire.