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Majority Of British Cannabis Is Home Grown

Cannabis In UK Is Home Grown

The majority of cannabis now used in Wales is grown locally, according to an investigation by BBC Wales’ Week In Week Out programme.

Many cannabis plants have also been selectively bred, to produce a much stronger drug called super skunk.

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Another Cannabis Farmer Sent Down

Swindon Cannabis Farmer Sent Down header

In a string of arrests, the latest, a Vietnamese man has being arrested by British police after a number of Cannabis farm were discovered in Swindon, UK.

Binh Nguyen received a 4 year prison sentence on the 5th of June, while his wife and 3 other men were sentenced on the 29th of May. The 43 year old man, whose wife escaped a jail sentence after the court had heard she had children aged 2 years and 8 months hold cried as he was sentenced.

Binh Nyugen was originally arrested last summer when police found a number of rented properties which had being converted into cannabis growing factories. Read the rest of this entry »

Cannabis Related Hospital Admissions Rapidly Increasing

Cannabis related illness raising rapidly

Official UK figures are reporting that mental health admissions due to the abuse of cannabis have risen by over 80 percent, 65 percent of which was in the last 5 years. There were 510 cannabis related hospital admissions in 1996-97, however this has shot up to 946 in 2005-06. It is estimated over 2 million people in England alone use it on a regular basis. Thats over 1% of the entire english population. Read the rest of this entry »

British Stoners Swimming Pool Grow Operation

Police in Lancashire, UK have accidentally discovered a swimming pool packed with cannabis plants worth £800,000.Cannabis Swimming Pool Mansion Officers were lost for words when they found the cannabis factory at a large detached house. The raid was launched after a court official told Lancashire police Constabulary he had seen a man fleeing away from the property when he had gone to question the occupants about an unrelated incident.

Offers raided the Tudor-style house on Durton Lane, Preston with search dogs, forensic teams and a police helicopter. They uncovered more than 1,000 cannabis plants ready for harvest with a street value of between £700,000 and £800,000.

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UK: Couple’s ‘drugs for pain’ claim

A HUSBAND and wife claimed they bought cannabis in bulk because they
both used it for different medicinal purposes.

Blackburn magistrates heard that Robert Wood smoked cannabis for pain
relief while his wife, Lynne, said she benefited from its calming effects.

But prosecutor Philip Potter told the court the couple were habitual
drug users and abusers and that he had nine previous drug related
convictions and she had 11.
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Robert Wood, 36, and Lynne Wood, 39, of Infirmary Street, Blackburn,
both pleaded guilty to possession of cannabis.

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