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More growhouse and drug dealing detections

Possession down, but drug dealing up.

Cannabis growhouses continue to blight the midlands, with a reported 200 increase in the cultivation of drugs between the second quarter of 2015 and this year.

At the recent meeting of the Joint Policing Committee meeting, it was revealed that there has been an eight percent increase in drugs and weapons offences, from 63 to 68.

There was a whopping 200 percent increase in the cultivation of drugs, from one case in the second quarter of 2015 up to three in the same quarter this year, while there was a 75 percent increase in having drugs for sale or supply, from 16 to 28.

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Source: Leinster Express, 29/09/2016 

 

Posted by Andy on 09/29 at 08:58 AM in
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