15 kilos of cannabis found at Launceston drug factory
By Richard_Penny | Wednesday, April 13, 2011, 11:10
With drugs taking an apparently lower profile in Okehampton recently, it was worrying to hear of a police find just over the Cornish border.
Officers swooped on a house near near Launceston at around midday yesterday (Tuesday) and discovered an extensive cannabis factory.
They were acting on a report from a member of the public regarding suspicious activity in an isolated house near North Hill. The witness described two men fleeing the premises and as a result of the description given, patrolling officers made an arrest two hours later in Upton Cross.
The 37-year-old male suspect is currently held in Launceston Police Station pending interview, while one male suspect, described being of South East Asian appearance, remains at large.
A subsequent search of the house revealed approximately 500 plants in different stages of development as well as a substantial quantity of dried herbal cannabis (approximately 15 kilos).
Anyone with any further information is asked to please contact police on 08452 777444 quoting police ref. 296 120411.
Comments
Because 6 million people use it ILLEGALLY does not constitute automatic exemption from Medicinal Control regulation.
To clearly understand what you are saying lets be clear; alcohol is a single entity, ethanol which can be measured simply using a hydrometer. The upper and lower limits of ethanol content are strictly controlled for retail sale.
Marijuana is a plant containing many cannaboid alkaloids and the content of each plant varies according to variant species, location, soil condition, temperature, time of harvest and storage.
So where do you plan to start? Which cannabis alkaloid do you measure or do you measure them all? What is the standard reference content for each alkaloid? When you get through all the analysis for EACH PLANT using expensive laboratory technicians and equipment what will the end price for each plant be?
Cannaboid alkaloids are drugs with too little research and the bad part as a pharmacologist is that they are lipid soluble making the actions unpredictable between individuals. Ethanol is metabolized is 12 hours and eliminated from the system. Cannaboid alkaloids can take 2 to 3 weeks to be metabolized after a single use. Such metabolism is dependent on each individuals body fat content hydration and many other factors.
So you have an agent that is difficult to standardize, has unpredictable effects on the central nervous system, suppresses the innate immune system,leads to infertility, causes the same damage to the lungs as tobacco smoking and you want to allow any old Joe Bloggs to able to sell it.
You have to be kidding.
By TigerO at 10:27 on 27/04/11
ReportIt's all such a ridiculous waste of law enforcement resources. Six million people in Britain use cannabis regularly - not surprising when you realise it is 100 times safer and 1000 times less toxic than alcohol. We already waste billions every year in a futile attempt to stop it. Why not tax and regulate and realise the benefits? That way we'd have a properly regulated supply chain with no criminals involved, with sales to adults only, with guaranteed quality and safety and our police could start tackling real crime.
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By PoetPeter at 17:30 on 13/04/11
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