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Entire house converted into 'marijuana farm' near Art Museum

Police raided a home, blocks from the Art Museum, yesterday afternoon and found a slew of marijuana plants. Cops called it a "marijuana farm."

Bags in a police vehicle (above) hold pot (right) grown at 22nd near Green.
Bags in a police vehicle (above) hold pot (right) grown at 22nd near Green.Read morePhotos: JESSICA GRIFFIN/Daily News

Police raided a home, blocks from the Art

Museum, yesterday afternoon and found a slew of marijuana plants.

Cops called it a "marijuana farm."

Police went to the vacant home, on 22nd Street near Green, after a report of a burglary. Inside, they found the plants, high-intensity lights, and

other electrical equipment.

Last night, a police spokeswoman said no one had been arrested, and the amount of drugs seized was unknown.

Police said the entire dwelling had been turned into a greenhouse devoted to growing marijuana.

They described the growing operation as one of the largest ever found in Philadelphia.

- Simone Weichselbaum