Home-grown cannabis is a booming business
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- Home-grown cannabis is a booming business
- Gangs and ghosts push UK’s homegrown cannabis harvest to a record…
- Cannabis – a UK growth industry
- Cannabis farms uncovered ‘treble’
- Growing problem of cannabis farms
- Two men charged after $1m cannabis seizure
Home-grown cannabis is a booming business
The Independent – Independent – Mar 13, 2007
The amount of the drug produced in Morocco, previously a prime source of the UK’s supply, has almost halved following an eradication scheme. More than three million Britons are believed to use cannabis regularly, a higher proportion than elsewhere in Europe. It typically costs £30 to £80 per ounce of resin, £35 to £110 for herbal cannabis, rising to £160 for marijuana of the highest quality. Recent drugs raids * 8 FEBRUARY Police uncover 250 to 300 small cannabis plants in a barn at Devauden, Gwent. * 23 FEBRUARY Manchester police arrest eight people and seize hundreds of plants in raids on three addresses in Chorlton. * 27 FEBRUARY More than 200 plants are discovered by police making a routine inquiry at a home in Leeds. They investigated after smelling cannabis.
Gangs and ghosts push UK’s homegrown cannabis harvest to a record…
Guardian Unlimited – Mar 13, 2007
It says that while super-strength “skunk” varieties are grown by some British “homegrown” producers it is much more likely they will cultivate lower strength varieties, which produce a much higher yield. The research, in the charity’s Druglink magazine, also shows that far from being a “window sill” hobby for enthusiasts, cannabis growing is becoming a big business dominated by Vietnamese criminal gangs, with police and growers engaged in an increasingly sophisticated tactical battle to detect or protect the cash crop. It also identifies a new breed of “guerrilla cannabis growers” who plant marijuana on other people’s land and return three months later to harvest it. Criminal gangsSix months ago, the police launched Operation Keymer, a national crackdown on cannabis farms, and they say that 80% of those they have raided had more than 50 plants, with most using a simple set up of overhead lights, fans and plant pots. The electricity meter was usually bypassed to power the high intensity lamps without alerting the power company. The police found one farm wired up to a street lamp. Fewer than one in 10 were using the more expensive and technically difficult “hydroponic” systems, growing the plants in nutrient-added water rather than soil.
Cannabis – a UK growth industry
BBC News – Mar 13, 2007
But how do the growers actually operate?
In ordinary suburban living rooms, behind closed doors, Britain’s illicit multi-million pound drugs trade is thriving. Just ten years ago only 11% of the cannabis on UK streets was grown within its shores. But now that figure stands at 60%, according to a report produced by the charity DrugScope. Network of farms
In London, where the class C drug is worth