TIRANA, Albania (AP) — Albania’s Interior Ministry says the country’s authorities have destroyed marijuana of an estimated market value of 6.4 billion euro ($8.2 billion) this year — more than 60 percent of the country’s annual GDP.

Minister of Interior Affairs Saimir Tahiri says police have destroyed 102 tons of marijuana and 530,000 cannabis plants since March and have arrested or indicted some 1,900 people.