The italian police has completed the seize of a serie of 6 estates that contained a total of 1.5 million plants. These places, owned and operated by the same 6 people, all arrested, are located in Sicily, between the villages of San Giuseppe Jato, San Cipirello and Monreale.
Category: Europe
England: cannabis reclassification is controversial
The proposals to re-insert the cannabis into Class B has generated a fight between the British government and the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD). Les Iversen, pharmacologist at Oxford University and member of the Council said to the press that he was not happy with “what appears to be a deliberate leak about the […]
UK: government ready for a U-turn on cannabis
Jacqui Smith, Home Secretary of the government of Gordon Brown, has announced that she wants to reserve the the choice of his predecessor to downgrade the prducts derived from Cannabis from class C back to class B. In this way every offender risk up to 14 years of jail. Ms Smith said: “Though statistics show that […]
Milan: student arrested in class for hashish possession
Unlucky day for a student, probably a minor: the militaries of the italian Guardia di Finanza of Milan have catched the guy during a control using a dog. The animal went crazy once arrived close to the guy. The police then found 40 gr of hashish hidden in his underwear. Later, at home, they have found […]
Holy weed! Marijuana in a greek nunnery.
A Greek Orthodox nunnery was turned into a marijuana garden by 2 men that are currently hunted by the Greek police. The muns told the a few months ago 2 men introduces themselves into the nunnery, offering to the nuns to take care of their plants and flowers. But instead of curing their garden, the […]
Look who s talking
Three cannabis-flavoured drinks have been removed from sale after a serie of complaints. These 3 drinks, produced by Beveland SA products are the Perigan’s Cannabis-Flavoured Gin, Iganoff Cannabis-Flavoured Vodka and Rodnik’s Cannabis-Flavoured Absinthe. All of them shows a cannabis leaf on the label. The Portman Group, the watchdog of the alcohol industry, has ruled that the drinks breach […]
French gov into the pocket of the cannabis smugglers
French government have decided to study the cannabis “problem” better, and to start in the good way they have decided to do a little calculation about the profit that a cannabis smuggler/seller can make in one year. “Although the average street dealer hardly makes the minimum wage out of selling cannabis, the middlemen get away with an […]
Albanian police uncover 2 tons of weed
Albanian police has arrested one person and seized 2040 kg of marijuana. The weed was hidden in a truck that has been stopped while it was trying to enter in Greece crossing the Kakavie border. Post communist Albania is often used as transit point for drugs and weapons. Criminals target Albania because of its lax […]
Young Czechs are the harder smokers of Europe
According to the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA) that has just released its annual report, the young Czechs under 24 remain the harder users of cannabis (marijuana and hashish) in Europe. 28% of them have admitted that thaty have smoked marijuana in 2006. The use oh hard drugs is also really […]
Scotland: Triads turned the country into a giant cannabis greenhouse.
One of the chief of the scottish police, has recently declared that “Organised criminals have turned Scotland into a cannabis greenhouse”. According to his information, criminal organizations from the far east run a net of greenhouses in the whole country. These grenhouses produces marijuana for the value of 1 billion euro per year. The greenhouses […]
