Police raid quiet hamlet and seize £170,000 cannabis plants
EAST YORKS: Police have launched a drugs raid in one of the East Riding's quietest hamlets.
Officers seized 270 cannabis plants worth £170,000 from a house in the rural community of Bentley near Beverley.
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Cannabis plants
The warrant was executed on February 27 and police have described what they found as "a cannabis factory".
Following the discovery and the subsequent seizure, a 46-year-old Beverley woman and a 44-year-old Beverley man have been interviewed by officers and released on police bail until the end of April pending further inquiries.
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The news was a shock for people living in Bentley, a settlement made up of a handful of homes and farms just off the west side of the A164 as it heads out of Beverley going towards the Humber Bridge. Since the direct access from the main road was blocked off for safety reasons it gets no passing traffic and residents are rarely disturbed.
Police say cannabis growers are moving away from industrial sites towards ordinary houses. Last year, an average of about 21 farms or factories was discovered every day in the UK.
6 Comments
by SourAlienOG
Sunday, March 31 2013, 5:16PM
“wellsmachine
Tobacco is legal yet use is declining, without sending one person to jail, or blighting their lives with criminal records. Without prohibition. Yet cannabis is easier to obtain for a kid, than alcohol. And if your argument only goes as far as 'drugs are bad' then you obviously dont mind dangerous criminals controlling dangerous drugs.
Sorry, time for a change. Cannabis will be legally regulated. Because reason will prevail.”
by wellsmachine
Sunday, March 31 2013, 8:10AM
“Your arguments are flawed, I'm afraid !
Tobacco is legal yet look at the massive trade of illegally smuggled and counterfeit tobacco and cigarettes. Given that the jury is still out with regards to psychological problems associated with long-term use then legalisation should not be sought.”
by SourAlienOG
Thursday, March 07 2013, 5:14PM
“Cannabis prohibition is an ineffective, irresponsible, dangerous economically draining fail, that has created a level of organized crime the world has never seen before. Shame on those who support the war on cannabis, for they have blood on their hands.”
by Klaus_Thymann
Thursday, March 07 2013, 12:12PM
“Cannabis is safer than alcohol and less addictive than coffee. Why is it even illegal? We should sell it in regulated stores and tax it.”
by stigzy
Thursday, March 07 2013, 12:08PM
“Well said PoetPeter an I agree with everything!! It's way overdue, all drugs should be decrimilised in my view on top of the tax the goverment get there would also be a drop in the crime rate that would see society as a whole save billions!!”
by PoetPeter
Thursday, March 07 2013, 11:22AM
“Are we so stupid in Britain that we cannot learn the lessons of history? If we prohibit something for which there is huge demand then the price rises and violent criminals become involved.
If we introduced a legally regulated system we would solve nearly all the problems around cannabis. We'd have no more illegal and dangerous cannabis farms causing fires. Instead we'd have thousands of new jobs. We'd have no more dealers on the streets. Cannabis would be available to adults only through licensed outlets and we'd have some control over the THC and CBD content. Science proves how much safer cannabis is than tobacco, alcohol, prescription medicines and all other recreational drugs. The evidence is that where legal regulation is introduced, consumption by children and all health and social harms are reduced.
Doctors would be able to prescribe one of the most effective medicines that has no serious side effects at all. At the moment the government has given GW Pharmaceuticals an illegal monopoly on cannabis so they make millions out of a medicine that you can grow in your greenhouse for virtually nothing.
Independent, expert research also indicates that a tax and regulate policy on cannabis would produce a net gain to the UK economy of up to £9.3 billion pa.
Our present policy on cannabis is irrational, irresponsible and dangerous. On 6th November 2012 Colorado and Washington state legalised cannabis for adults, Surely, this inevitable and long overdue reform will now begin to roll out across the world?”