Cannabis plants found in Burghill (From Hereford Times)
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Cannabis plants found in Burghill
3:18pm Friday 3rd August 2012 in News
By Paul Rogers
Police officers examining some of the cannabis plants found in Burghill
A MAN has been arrested on suspicion of cultivation of cannabis after 135 plants were found in Burghill yesterday.
They were allowed to grow in relative secrecy underground in three cellar rooms, which could only be accessed by a small section of false flooring that could be lifted.
The complexity of the growing operation was such that power companies had to be called in to make the building as safe as possible before plants and equipment could be removed for
destruction.
“It took a number of officers several hours to seize and dispose of the plants and it just goes to show that you can never tell what goes on behind closed doors,” said Sergeant Dan
Pilkington.
“West Mercia Police take drug crime very seriously and act upon any information received from members of the public as soon as the time is right.”
A 51-year-old man who was arrested has been bailed pending further enquiries.
Comments(7)
Mrslawrence66
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4:23pm Sat 4 Aug 12
Cannabis = a life of no hope
Well done West Mercia!
focusonpeace
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5:14pm Sat 4 Aug 12
Mrslawrence66 wrote:And as one cannabis grow op gets raided, another one will pop up some where else. This will continue to happen unless our government regulate it. You hate cannabis with a passion? Well you must hate the people at GW pharma who grow thousands of cannabis plants, yep the home office granted them a licence. So even though our government say ' no medicinal value in cannabis' they allow gw pharma to grow it, for medicine. Its not cannabis based medicine, its pure cannabis oil in a tincture, yes it does get you high. If you hate cannabis so much, you must hate all the people who need to use it as medicine. Its been known to help people suffering from a wide range of disparate diseases and pathological conditions, ranging from mood and anxiety disorders, movement disorders such as Parkinson’s and Huntington’s disease, neuropathic pain, multiple sclerosis and spinal cord injury, to cancer, atherosclerosis, myocardial infarction, stroke, hypertension, glaucoma, obesitymetabolic syndrome, and osteoporosis, to name just a few.
Great the more people caught the better, hate the stuff with a passion and have seen far too many people's life go on a downward spiral.
Cannabis = a life of no hope
Well done West Mercia!
Mrslawrence66
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11:13am Sun 5 Aug 12
I am thinking of the wider picture here, I'm not saying that every smoker will go on to harder drugs but the majority of people I know that use it has effected there lifes in a negative way, one who has no prospect of getting a job as they would rather sit at home quite content with their daily intake, one who has been to prison and another who now has schizophrenia with good belief that it stemmed from cannabis.
But hey if you are happy to pay your taxes to fund the police,nhs and benefit system as a result good or you.
PoetPeter
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11:38am Sun 5 Aug 12
Mrslawrence66 wrote:Mrs Lawrence, there are dangers in the use of any substance. The scientific evidence shows that the dangers of cannabis are approximately equivalent to coffee, hundreds of times less than alcohol and prescription drugs and even less risky than peanuts.
Focusonpeace says it all in your user name, to help with mood and anxiety come on now are you on the drug itself, it creates mood swings an anxiety.
I am thinking of the wider picture here, I'm not saying that every smoker will go on to harder drugs but the majority of people I know that use it has effected there lifes in a negative way, one who has no prospect of getting a job as they would rather sit at home quite content with their daily intake, one who has been to prison and another who now has schizophrenia with good belief that it stemmed from cannabis.
But hey if you are happy to pay your taxes to fund the police,nhs and benefit system as a result good or you.
Your taxes contribute to the £500 million every year spent every year on the criminal justice system for cannabis alone. Your taxes support the £6 billion per annum cannabis market on which, at present, no tax is paid.
You may know people who have had negative experiences with cannabis. Many millions more have negative experiences with alcohol, tobacco, etc, etc. The last thing we should be doing is adding to them by criminalising millions of citizens and wasting billions of pounds
leftofmoorfarm
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1:14pm Wed 8 Aug 12
I agree cannabis has some undesirable effects, but so does a bottle of wine or a glass of whiskey, so do cigarettes, so does gambling, and so does a burger and fries. But those are "personal choices", why the double standards?
Herefordian
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8:30pm Thu 9 Aug 12
SChorley says...
11:50pm Fri 3 Aug 12
"It took a number of officers several hours" but cannabis does not kill and is a persons choice. I can think of a lots of better things this country needs to spend it's money on beyond Police to punish people for making a choices I disagree with.