Police raid cannabis factory in Tottenham (From Haringey Independent)
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Police raid cannabis factory in Tottenham
3:34pm Tuesday 21st August 2012 in News By Bruce Thain
Police raided a cannabis factory last week recovering more than 550 plants after receiving information from members of the community.
Officers from Tottenham Green and Tottenham Hale Safer Neighbourhoods Teams carried out the drug search at a warehouse in Roseberry Avenue, in Tottenham on Friday August 17.
No one was in the building at the time of the search and inside the building they found more than 550 cannabis plants with equipment which could have been used to expand the drug growing operation.
Police were acting on information from the community who reported suspicious activity on the roof of the building.
Sergeant Paul Kane said: “Thanks to information from the local community, we have taken out a significant cannabis production operation and removed a good deal of the drug from circulation.”
Babs Stanley says...
7:07pm Tue 21 Aug 12
Doctors would be able to prescribe one of the safest and 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.
If we introduced a legally regulated system we would solve nearly all the problems around cannabis. Science proves how much safer it is than tobacco, alcohol, prescription medicines and all other recreational drugs. If anyone does have a problem with it they could get help without having to confess to a crime.
CLEAR published independent, expert research last year which shows that a tax and regulate policy on cannabis would produce a net gain to the UK economy of up to £9.3 billion per annum.
It is a scandal that our government, our judges, our courts, our police and our newspapers keep misleading us about cannabis. Find out the truth for yourself and wake up to the lies you have been told..