Cannabis: There are three million users in the UK and more than 60 per cent of what they use is produced here
Posted on 10/15/2007 10:53:30 PM PDT by Stoat
Cannabis: There are three million users in the UK and more than 60 per cent of what they use is produced here
A police crackdown on cannabis factories run by Vietnamese drug barons has been scrapped after officers were warned their actions might be racist.
Officers have identified a burgeoning industry which typically operates out of anonymous rented houses in the suburbs and shires.
They had planned to write to property landlords warning them to look out for suspicious tenancy applications.
But it is understood at least one force has been found to be in breach of the Race Relations Act after specifically referring to Vietnamese nationals in its letters.
The development has infuriated detectives seeking to break the stranglehold of Vietnamese barons, who control 75 per cent of UK production of cannabis.
Senior police sources confirmed there has been an "explosion" in Vietnamese-run cannabis factories over the past year.
Often the whole house will be given over to cultivation of the drug with a small living area reserved for the "gardener", often an illegal immigrant, who tends the plants.
Sometimes the gangs rent up to four properties in a row from the same landlord.
Each house can produce up to four harvests a year, worth up to £600,000.
Electricity connections are often tampered with to offer a free supply to power the lighting around the plants.
Following a recent crackdown by Scotland Yard, many of the crime syndicates have relocated out of the capital to rented properties in places such as Birmingham, Sheffield, Manchester, Nottingham, Leicester and Derby.
There are now three million cannabis users in the UK and more than 60 per cent of what they use is produced here, compared to just 11 per cent ten years ago.
According to investigators, the Vietnamese gangs have a distinct four-tier structure.
There is usually a financial backer, who owns a UK business such as a nail bar or restaurant.
There is a "consultant" who travels around the country advising people how to set up a cannabis farm.
Then there is the "gardener", and finally a seller, responsible for distribution of the drug.
The groups typically launder their vast profits in businesses, vehicles and property. Links to casinos have been uncovered in the Midlands.
Senior officers believe privately that the Government's decision to relax the laws on cannabis is the cause of the surge in home-grown production.
Chief Superintendent Jon House, of South Yorkshire Police, said the downgrading of the drug from Class B to Class C should be reversed.
He told Police Review magazine that the factories were setting up at an "alarming" rate.
"My recommendation would be that legislation should be introduced that would hold landlords accountable," he said.
• Super-strength 'skunk' warning
Home-grown "skunk", the most powerful and harmful type of cannabis, is flooding our streets, Government scientists have warned.
It accounts for three quarters of the cannabis seized, with 9,460lbs confiscated in the first half of this year.
"There is now an easy way to grow cannabis in this country because of the availability of equipment, specialist lighting and a cheap labour source through foreign nationals," said Dean Ames, head of the Forensic Science Service's drugs unit.
The potency of skunk, said to be two to three times more powerful than other forms of cannabis, was a major factor behind Gordon Brown's recent decision to review the downgrading of the drug from Class B to Class C in 2004.
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Often the whole house will be given over to cultivation of the drug with a small living area reserved for the "gardener", often an illegal immigrant, who tends the plants.
So, even though the illegal activity is being perpetrated by an illegal immigrant, apparently no reference can be made to the illegal's country of origin as that would break race laws.
Their actions just might no be racist though.
Regards.
Apparently the mere fear of being racist is enough to shut everything down. However, from the article:
But it is understood at least one force has been found to be in breach of the Race Relations Act
Apparently these fears do have substance in reality.
One naturally wonders if the race laws would also have a chilling effect upon investigations into other criminal activity, such as human trafficking?
Well if the powers that be making up the laws in England are muzzie and hindu immigrants then their idea of racist will mean anything that isn't pro-asian at the expense of the native population.
If liberals intend to destroy Britain for the sake of principle - they will only be lighting the fuse of devolution and a much lower tax base and level of public services for everyone.
“the Race Relations Act”
junk the law
Those who choose not to identify their enemies deserve the disasters they invite.
Can't have the cops committing "Hate Crimes".
Pure PC BS !
‘Well if the powers that be making up the laws in England are muzzie and hindu immigrants’
They are not, only 12 out of 659 members of parliament are ‘non-white’. If Britains ethnic mix (92.9% white/7.1% non-white) was reflected accurately in parliament, there would be nearly 46 non-white MP’s instead of 12.
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