Children trafficked from Asia to UK to work in cannabis factories
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- Uganda: Uganda-Kenya Police Destroy Shs2bn Marijuana in Busia
- Prince Charles opens cannabis garden
- Group wants to decriminalize some marijuana violations
Children trafficked from Asia to UK to work in cannabis factories
The Independent - Independent - Sep 23, 2007
We now get told about one young person every week being removed from a cannabis factory. But nobody knows the true scale of the problem. “Simon Byrne, Assistant Chief Constable of Merseyside Police and cannabis spokesman for the Association of Chief Police Officers (Acpo), said colleagues call cannabis “the cash machine of organised crime”. He said: “For the police, crime reduction is based on a simple equation in people’s minds between risk and reward. If you remove the risk, people exploit it. If you put the risk back into enforcement, they will adapt and go into another type of business. “Experts say Vietnamese gangs were the quickest to exploit opportunities in the cannabis market and have since become renowned for trafficking children as cannabis slaves.
Grow houses for marijuana said to be increasing: Plantation man’s…
Free with registration - South Florida Sun-Sentinel - AccessMyLibrary.com - Sep 23, 2007
“Everybody knew about the marijuana,” said Jaczynski’s attorney, Howard Scott Hecker. “You could smell it out the windows. ” Florida ranks at the top among states where marijuana grow houses have mushroomed in recent years. The National Drug Intelligence Center ranks.
Uganda: Uganda-Kenya Police Destroy Shs2bn Marijuana in Busia
AllAfrica.com - Sep 23, 2007
Marijuana seeds and plants valued at Shs2 billion was destroyed in an operation aimed at fighting drug abuse. GA_googleFillSlot(”AllAfrica_Story_Inset”); The gardens that were discovered in Masaba sub county have been the major suppliers of the drug to the neigbouring country of Kenya where it's processed and exported to the European countries. Mr David Bierch the officer in charge narcotics in Kenya said the destruction of the drug follows the arrest of several drug dealers who have been importing it from Uganda. "We have been following these drug dealers and consumers closely and when we made arrests they linked us to their major source being Uganda," Mr Bierch said. Mr Bierch who led 40 Kenyan cops to Uganda told Sunday Monitor that similar ones would be conducted in future… He said the processed drug is packed inside bags of maize, sorghum, and beans before being smuggled to Kenya through un-gazetted boarder points. He said other dealers hide the drug in banana fibre balls which they give to children who then kick them across the Uganda-Kenya boarder at Busia as if they are playing soccer. Marijuana cultivators earn approximately KShs2,700 per kilogramme of the locally processed drug which is about Ug Shs67,500. With these lucrative proceeds, Mr Watenga, said residents of Bwalira and Butangasi villages in Masaba Sub County prefer marijuana growing to other cash crops. "This is the harvesting season. Relevant Links East AfricaCrime and CorruptionKenyaLegal and Judicial AffairsUganda Although our counterparts [Kenyan police] have gone back, we shall press on with the operation of uprooting the drug.
Prince Charles opens cannabis garden
NEWS.com.au - Sep 23, 2007
article-tools –> September 23, 2007 12:00am THE Prince of Wales has opened the only public garden in Britain allowed to grow cannabis and coca leaf. The Prince opened the second phase of The Alnwick Garden, in Alnwick, Northumberland, on Friday. It includes the UK’s only poison garden, growing plants such as cannabis and coca under lock and key. The Prince also visited Alnwick Castle, where he presented the country’s only Territorial armoured reconnaissance regiment with its first consecrated flag. - AP Share this article.
Group wants to decriminalize some marijuana violations
Tulsa World - Tulsa World (subscription) - Sep 23, 2007
Kelly Maddy, president of the Joplin chapter of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws, said he and others want to give Joplin citizens a chance to “enact a more sensible marijuana policy. ”
Maddy was joined by Kris Krane, the executive director of the national organization Students for Sensible Drug Policy, and Ryan Denham, president of the Alliance for Drug Reform Policy in Arkansas. More than 200 people were arrested in Joplin for marijuana use in 2005, said Maddy, who said police resources could be better used for more serious crime. “Our city’s marijuana laws are not only a waste of taxpayer money and police resources, they are by definition a failed policy,” he said. By Associated Press… ”
Maddy was joined by Kris Krane, the executive director of the national organization Students for Sensible Drug Policy, and Ryan Denham, president of the Alliance for Drug Reform Policy in Arkansas. More than 200 people were arrested in Joplin for marijuana use in 2005, said Maddy, who said police resources could be better used for more serious crime. “Our city’s marijuana laws are not only a waste of taxpayer money and police resources, they are by definition a failed policy,” he said. By Associated Press.