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UK: Drugs Grown At Home
Sky News
Sunday 17 Dec 2006 Drug dealers are paying customers to grow dope at home following a police crackdown on cannabis farms, a charity claims. Druglink, the magazine of drugs education charity DrugScope, says some dealers are offering cash to regular customers who agree to grow cannabis plants in their spare room. DrugScope said the police campaign - 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. The 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 Birmingham, a kilo of cannabis has rocketed in price from £1,000 to between £1,800 and £2,000, it added. In recent years, home-grown cannabis had come to make up 60% of the country's supply, outstripping imports of the drug. 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 £2.5m. It focused on properties being used to produce skunk - a potent and potentially dangerous form of cannabis which contains far higher quantities of the chemical THC than herbal or resin varieties. 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. "It is evident that the operation has achieved some success, with the price of cannabis going up, many criminals taken out of the supply chain and cannabis use declining." http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30100-13557250,00.html?f=rss
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