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Canada: RCMP seize 20,000 marijuana plants

CBC News

Monday 02 Oct 2006

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The RCMP seized more than 20,000 plants in New Brunswick during their
annual marijuana eradication program, a force spokesman said Monday.

Operation Sabot was conducted between Aug. 22 and Sept. 19. Every year,
the RCMP and the military scour New Brunswick for marijuana plants. They
fly over rural areas with helicopters and conduct searches on the ground.

Sgt. Robert Powers, spokesman for the RCMP Drug Enforcement Team, said
the plants were seized from grow operations around the province.

"They were actually spread out quite evenly, geographically speaking,
across the province," he said. "The average grow was [relatively] small,
probably about 100-300 plants. But in total they equal a great deal of
marijuana."

Powers said many of the plants were still waiting to be harvested.

"In many of the cases, the buds were still on plants and the plants were
of high quality," he said.

He said the RCMP are concerned about local grow operations because the
drugs produced here will likely stay in New Brunswick.

"Some of it would have been exported to the [U.S.], but I think a lot of
it would have stayed here," he said. "Aside from the organized crime
grow [operations], where a great deal of it was leaving the province,
these local grows have a tendancy to stay [in the province]."

No charges have been laid in connection with the drug busts.
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/new-brunswick/story/2006/10/02/nb-busts.html

 

 

 

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