Police seize £130m worth of cannabis in UK-wide crackdown | 5 News
Police seize £130m worth of cannabis in UK-wide crackdown | 5 News
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450 people have been charged, more than a thousand cannabis farms raided, and several guns as well as hundreds of thousands of pounds in cash seized.
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"tough on drugs" is one of the last things that the conservative party has to make them seem conservative
Well done lads! The pain and suffering prevented by taking this killer drug off the streets is hard to fathom.
what police call 130 millions worth and what you would buy if for on the streets are very different. also the government grows it how come its rules for me and not for thee?
Leave it alone go for the drugs that’s really damaging our society you don’t see a weed smoker clucking in the street begging for their next fix or see them using needles in the street absolute joke do a real job
what a waste of time & money
LEGALISE IT !!!
Pathetic. Busting people for growing plants with medicinal purposes.
illegal migrant is not criminal. this British people Sam suella and sunak criminal. Make economic down
Make it legal easy as.
If this was taxed at 20% corp rates, and then 20% VAT the government would have made £52 million.
That’s gonna be a big party at nr10
Think of all that medicine they just destroyed. Think of all the people that could have used that medicine to improve their quality of life, then ask yourself… why is the UK stuck in the stone age, we look old and tired compared to the rest of the world. We look stupid and weak.
Even the Germans are smarter than us.
Dont worry, there are plenty more growers to fill the gap!
Seize a proper drug you muppets.
Big mess in my little Britain now as young nation pray on drugs it is sad
Bloody waste of money. Legalized and tax it. You will never stop people using it so you may as well have the tax from it. And people then won’t be forced to deal with criminals.
Can i purchase some.
all they have created is a market place that needs filing…………………..dealers to benefit, authorities to lose. how great is the UK 1 – 0 to the criminals
Good job. You achieved nothing except driving up the price for the consumer.
Why not enjoy a nice pint of alcohol after work for this excellent job you effing hypocrites.
Hat a waste of money, legalise drugs and pursue offences against the person.
These raids tend to be people who are organised crime groups rather than personal use.
A few years ago in the UK they did a study if they legalised cannabis and taxed it and it was estimated that it would drum up enough tax to cover the NHS and some of the police and fire and rescue.
Did they raid their own factory in Kent? One of the biggest exporters of cannabis worldwide? No? Didn’t think so.
Nice to see the police do something useful for a change outside of letting groomers go and arresting people for mean tweets. /s
pathetic. plenty of decent, well-functioning people enjoy a smoke.
Great news, the war on drugs is over. The end of all drug addiction just around the corner. Surely now is the time to make nicotine a class A drug, so that the Government stops profiteering from something that causes so many deaths every year.
Well that’s my week ruined, shortage 🚬💨💨☹️
They want to try getting rid of heroin, crack and coke oh most of the big wigs are on coke 😂
Buy Gold Silver Copper
It’s financing organised crime groups BECAUSE IT’S ILLEGAL!! Unlike in most other sensible places.
Just like prohibition turbo charged the mafia.
This is why this country is rightfully regarded as a clown car pile up these days.
Hotdogs will be going down a treat in the local nick, lorryloads of chocolate hobnob’s are being tracked across the county.!
What an absolute waist of time, money and peoples freedom. The war on drugs is completely immoral and utterly futile 🙄
Just legalize it like most country’s have tax it regulates it the this is government are going we’re gunna be a really poor nation and left behind everyone else
Tressa mays bloody grows a shit don’t see any one having a pop at him the uk is the biggest exporter of cannabis yet we can supply other country’s but not our own 😢must be ryt wat there day don’t get high on ur own supply 😅
Plenty more where that came from 😂😂😂
Due to staffing shortages to help ease the stress the police chief told officers to mellow out. 😂
Get rid of the immigrants forced into illegal business and prostitution before looking for weed
Such a waste of money and time Alcohol is killing just as many People! legalise it and concentrate on real crime that’s crippling this country! Tax it move on!
A plant that never killed anyone and is safer than alcohol is illegal, fortunately a lot of countries are waking up, Australia for example.
the amount of theft and robbery that happens and goes unpunished and unsolved on the streets and in the pubs of London is insane.. and the city has the police chasing and arresting botanists. for growing plants! years from now they’ll make comedy films and shows of this