LEYTON: Huge cannabis factory discovered (From East London and West Essex Guardian Series)
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LEYTON: Huge cannabis factory discovered
10:19am Wednesday 22nd February 2012 in Waltham Forest News By Daniel Binns
A photo taken by police of the cannabis factory.
POLICE have seized around 1,000 cannabis plants following the discovery of a drugs factory.
Two men, aged 25 and 32, were arrested during the raid on a building at the Argall Avenue Industrial Estate in Leyton last night (Tuesday February 21).
Inside officers discovered four 'growing rooms', each containing approximately 250 plants.
The arrested men were held on suspicion of growing the plants and are also being quizzed over possible immigration offences. Both remain in custody.
Detective Inspector Colin Stephenson of the Met's Central Task Force, which carried out the raid with support from the Lea Bridge Ward Safer Neighbourhoods team, said: "These drugs could have netted the people concerned a vast amount of money, but with the support of our colleagues, they have been thwarted."
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Comments(7)
Kingfisher Bill
says...
1:22pm Wed 22 Feb 12
Sam Hain
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2:10pm Wed 22 Feb 12
HottRedMan
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4:16pm Wed 22 Feb 12
This is illegal, dangerous and leads to paranoia.
I would not be suprised these type of people are involved in other illegal activites as they usually are, with firearms etc.
Hypocrites like yourselfs only realise after when you are directly involved by the outcomes of people like these.
mdj
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5:29pm Wed 22 Feb 12
As for the paranoia argument, it's a bit like comparing Remy Martin with bath tub gin: it's the illegality that exposes the user to junk. I wouldn't recommend cannabis or indeed alcohol to anyone, but what we're doing isn't reducing the consumption, that's for sure. The income from illegal drugs is indeed feeding a criminal sub-culture, as HotRedMan says. It's one source of income we can take out of that equation, and reduce the harm caused.
oaklegs
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3:43am Thu 23 Feb 12
These guys must have been financed by someone with more money than they had and they are just the scapegoats. Get the bigger fish and they may be getting somewhere.
Sam Hain
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9:26am Thu 23 Feb 12
mdj says...
12:02pm Wed 22 Feb 12
It's desperate; we can't even grow our own Weed any more. What happened to British enterprise?
'These drugs could have netted the people concerned a vast amount of money..'
And they could have done that for the taxpayer too, if they were legal - and saved us a fortune in police time as well.
When will our lawmakers work out that the harms involved in legalising many drugs are less than the harms involved in suppressing them?