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Police smell a pungent odour - and discover a cannabis factory
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A cannabis plant
POLICE busted a cannabis farm in a Chatham house after smelling the pungent weed from outside.

Officers were patrolling in the early hours of Saturday morning when they became aware of a strong odour in Chatham Hill.


They searched a nearby house and found 178 plants, worth an estimated £44,000.


Police believe the growers were at the stage of harvesting their plants.


Detective Inspector John Coull said: “We are winning the fight against drugs in the towns of Medway and it has become common knowledge that there is currently a cannabis drought in the area.


“Tackling the supply of cannabis is just as important as taking class A drugs off the streets. Often smoking cannabis is the first rung in the ladder for those who will later ruin their lives by progressing to harder drugs like cocaine and heroin.


“So cannabis growers beware - we are working within the Medway area to find your factories and close them down.”


It is the 20th cannabis farm discovered in the Medway Towns since October. Police have seized around £1.3million worth of the drug in that time.


POSTED: 05/03/2007 12:11:57

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