cannabis becoming scarce

[savagepossum]

Sunday, 17th December 2006
Dealers struggle after cannabis crackdown

A police crackdown on cannabis farms has left dealers struggling to keep up with demand.

Some dealers are even offering cash to regular customers who agree to grow drugs in their spare room.

Drug education charity DrugScope said the campaign by the Association of Chief Police Officers (Acpo) - which lasted less than a fortnight - led to the street price of dope doubling in some areas.

The group said dealers were finding it difficult to keep up with demand after hundreds of farms were raided by police across England and Wales.

Its Druglink magazine reported: "The raids have forced some dealers to offer regular customers cash for the use of a spare room for a three month growing cycle."

In recent years, home-grown cannabis had come to make up 60% of the country's supply, outstripping imports of the drug.

Therefore, the Acpo campaign has had a devastating impact on the illegal trade, the magazine went on.

Fifteen police forces took part in "Operation Keymer" from September 25 to October 5, seizing 28,000 cannabis plants and 54 kilos of prepared cannabis with a potential value of more than £2.5 million.

Acpo cannabis spokesman Allan Gibson, a commander at the Metropolitan Police, said: "The objective of Operation Keymer was to reduce the harm caused by criminal networks in producing high-potency cannabis.

"We have focused on closing down high-profit cannabis factories, arresting the organised criminals behind them and freezing the criminal assets that would otherwise have been ploughed back into crime."


http://www.manchestereveningnews.co....crackdown.html

What a fucking waste of time and money when i see heroin,speed,coke and all other kinds of shite being sold by the bucket load on these streets.

and they decide to crack down on cannabis?!

savagepossum Reviewed by savagepossum on 12-17-2006. cannabis becoming scarce Sunday, 17th December 2006 Dealers struggle after cannabis crackdown A police crackdown on cannabis farms has left dealers struggling to keep up with demand. Some dealers are even offering cash to regular customers who agree to grow drugs in their spare room. Drug education charity DrugScope said the campaign by the Association of Chief Police Officers (Acpo) - which lasted less than a fortnight - led to the street price of dope doubling in some areas. The group said dealers were Rating: 5

[LIP]

Yeah, it's disgusting, they have no idea how to run a country. It's all one big joke.

But im ok, London never had this drought, prices didnt go up, and people are still growing and smoking.

[EckyThump]

Ano 1 of these farms was just down the road. not stopped me any though.

If i gets cought doing something a believe in then what can I say...

FUCKIN JOKE...
peace

Ps you around Manc then me ole possuum...?

[marvelous22]

hopefully i dont get effected. I havent seen a change in a while.

[OniEhtRedrum781]

Good thing it happened across the pond, or that would suck for me..

[DonJuan]

just goes to show that life is better in the colonies...

[Delta9 UK]

54 Kilos - all that effort for...

54 Kilos!!!!!!

Pfft me and Lip could smoke that up in month

Seriously though, I bet I could easy smoke a Kilo in a year (3g a day would do it) so the cops managed to put 54 people like me out of weed for 1 year.

TWATS!

That is a really crappy run if you ask me, the Police should be ashamed of that record for the money it must have cost taxpayers like me.

How many meth labs did they bust hmmm? hmmmmmmmmmmm?

Plus I just purchased 2 ounces of icky sticky so I can't see the effects really....

[LIP]

Yeah man, i got 3 oz last week ready for chritmas, i think it's skunk #1. i cant remember what my man told me, but i know it's the real deal as he's a grower, and i got 2 oz to last me this week, untill christmas.

[Fengzi]

Within a 10 mile (about 16 km for the rest of the world) radius from my house they busted a bunch of farms this year. The last I heard they had pulled up over 150,000 plants. But it hasn't seemed to have any effect on the supply around here in the San Francisco area. Certainly there's been no sign of a drought. Then again, 150,000 plants in California is like a grain of sand on a beach.

Question: Is most of the weed consumed in England grown there? Or, do you get it in from places like Netherlands or even Canada & the US?

[Abattoir Dream]

lol no, the last time i saw exported weed was a very long time ago, which is good because compressed weed pisses me off, most of the weed in england is homegrown, - good homegrown too...