#Scarcity
The Uk is the largest exporter of ‘legal’ cxnnabis in the World and recognises it medical benefits except for its own citizens. It is banned in uk for any one to smoke or use cxnnabis for medical reasons and this results in 1000s using dealers and low level and quality cxnnabis and risking their health to get the medicine they need for arthritis and epilepsy.
Over 100 arrrests and five tonnes seized in Spain raids yesterday at 5 addresses
Spanish police said the 37-year-old, identified only by his initials PDT, was given a life sentence in the UK.
He was held in the coast town of Estepona near Marbella, police confirmed.
It was not immediately clear how he had managed to escape the UK.
A spokesman for Spain’s National Police confirmed: “National Police have arrested a wanted 37-year-old Brit.
“He was held on an International Arrest Warrant for a crime of drugs trafficking.
“He belonged to a criminal gang that supplied cocaine in the northwest of England.
They have also discovered plantation underground and thousands of kilos in multiple interception at sea this month.
Marijuana labs are believed to be operated by organized groups who want to export to northern Europe. Spain has long been considered as Europe’s point of entry for cannabis resin, also known as hashish, coming in from Morocco. But now it’s also increasing its own marijuana production to satisfy local and external demand. Seizures of cannabis plants grew by 53.6% between 2013 and 2014 and an extra 40.3% the next year.
“Cannabis resin has always been a very plentiful product in Spain, like in France, or Italy, and it is also the case that now the herb is more frequent that cannabis resin. So in this sense Spain is part of a general European trend”, Laurent Laniel, a scientific analyst for drug supply reduction at the EMCDDA told Euronews from Lisbon.
“As a result of the previous trend Europe is becoming a larger producer of cannabis than it used to be in the past. The growing of cannabis is becoming a business in many countries and Spain it seems is certainly one of those which has recently been taken in this movement very strongly”.
“There is a whole range of actors for cannabis production (in Spain) like in the rest of Europe; small growers grow for themselves and their friends, but we think most of the plants seized come from commercial plantations owned by people who are organised criminals” Laniel added.
Dedicated in the memory of black the ripper aka Dean West.
#420
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