2,000 cannabis plants in Ammanford bank! (From South Wales Guardian)
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2,000 cannabis plants in Ammanford bank!
7:00am Wednesday 26th September 2012 in News
A MASSIVE cannabis factory in the heart of Ammanford was only discovered through a piece of “good old-fashioned policing”, it emerged this week.
While shoppers and traders went about their business in Quay Street, the former Lloyd’s Bank building had secretly been transformed into a cannabis factory where over 2,000 plants were cultivated.
The astonishing development only came to light after patrolling officers carried out a routine stopcheck on a van early on Wednesday.
They became suspicious after speaking to the van’s two occupants and further enquiries led them to the former bank where, on entering, police discovered “row upon row” of cannabis plants.
“What officers discovered was a professional cultivation, with around 2,000 plants,” said Det Chief Insp Greg Williams.
“There were plants in every stage of growth from nursery up to harvesting stage.”
The building was formerly leased out to Cash Solutions, a gold and jewellery- buying business until June.
Police declined to comment on suggestions that the haul amounted to £250,000.
“It’s hard to believe an illegal operation like this has been going on right under people’s noses,”
Chamber of Trade secretary Angela Phillips told the Guardian.
A spokesman for Cardiff-based chartered surveyors Emanuel Jones, who let the building, said: “It’s shocking that this kind of thing can happen.”
Two years ago a similar factory was discovered at the old Workmen’s Hall in Garnant.
●Four men, all from the London area, were arrested on suspicion of cannabis production and appeared before Llanelli magistrates on Thursday when they were remanded in custody until tomorrow.
Comments(5)
Cannabis truth
says...
10:53am Wed 26 Sep 12
Her Majesties Government can issue licences to grow skunk to big GW Pharma.... but the little man must go to prison for growing something with "no medicinal value whatsoever" ~ to quote the same government!
Double-standards!!
The bankers go free and big corporations can do as they please, our young soldiers fight in illegal wars and ordinary citizens are lied to and imprisoned for cannabis!
UK is a joke.
Cannabis is good! fact.
Cannabis is harmless! fact.
The Crown prosecution supports a false cannabis laws and knowingly imprisons people to support the prison industrial complex.
Disobey all cannabis laws.
One love! Chant down Babylon
malcolmkyle16
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12:04pm Wed 26 Sep 12
Due to prohibition, cheap growing equipment and a few seeds from friends, or ordered over the internet, it's now possible to grow a whole retirement fund in just 12 weeks. Why are we wasting our precious resources on a futile attempt at trying to prevent the impossible? Who gains? Everywhere I go, I come across people discussing their latest growing techniques or swapping recipes for pest control. I get shown more indoor marijuana gardens than holiday photos. So why are there still so many people buying into the dangerous and failed farce of Prohibition?
It's not even possible to keep drugs out of prisons but prohibitionists wish to continue wasting trillions more in an utterly futile attempt to keep them off our streets—what is the government smoking?
SuperSilverSourDiesel
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3:36pm Wed 26 Sep 12
“I’m fairly confident that cannabis is safe for over-18 brains, but risky for under-18 brains.” - Professor Moffitt, Institute of Psychiatry at King’s College London, 2012
The war on drugs is surprisingly similar to the war on terror. Invading poor countries to get terrorists, Invading poor estates to get dealers. Destroy homes, confiscate property and jail families of terror suspects. Destroy homes, confiscate property and jail families of Drug suspects. Both accidentally kill and imprison thousands of innocent people. Both ignore underlining causes, both waste billions of pounds, both are a fail.
I dislike drug dealers and children using drugs or becoming enticed by gangsterism, so i say NO to prohibition and NOW to legal regulation
Meirion
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11:37am Thu 27 Sep 12
Strange that so many trained to identify that distinct odour walked past there so many times and not identified that distinctive odour.
Babs Stanley says...
10:33am Wed 26 Sep 12
Doctors would be able to prescribe one of the most effective medicines that has no serious side effects at all. At the moment the government has given GW Pharmaceuticals an illegal monopoly on cannabis so they make millions out of a medicine that you can grow in your greenhouse for virtually nothing.
If we introduced a legally regulated system we would solve nearly all the problems around cannabis. Science proves how much safer it is than tobacco, alcohol, prescription medicines and all other recreational drugs. If anyone does have a problem with it they could get help without having to confess to a crime.
CLEAR published independent, expert research last year which shows that a tax and regulate policy on cannabis would produce a net gain to the UK economy of up to £9.3 billion per annum.
It is a scandal that our government, our judges, our courts, our police and our newspapers keep misleading us about cannabis. Find out the truth for yourself and wake up to the lies you have been told.