Cannabis factories discovered in Carshalton and Wallington

2:34pm Thursday 20th September 2012 in News By Sophia Sleigh, Reporter

Photographs from the raid in Whitland Road, Carshalton Photographs from the raid in Whitland Road, Carshalton

Two cannabis factories were discovered in drugs raids across Sutton today.

It was all part of a Met-wide offensive, Operation Hawk, targeting cannabis farms, crack houses and suspected drug dealers.

In a terraced house in Whitland Road, Carshalton, officers found around 40 cannabis plants growing in the loft.  A 22-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of cultivation of cannabis and possession with intent to supply cocaine and cannabis.

Another cannabis factory was found at a property in Parkgate Road, Wallington. Two tents with eight plants in each tent were found inside the address. A 26-year-old man was arrested for cultivation and possession with intent to supply cannabis.

At a property in Shaftesbury Road, Carshalton, a 22-year-old man was arrested for possession of cannabis. He received an £80 fixed penalty notice.

The officers, from Sutton’s Safer Neighbourhoods Teams, were responding to information received from local communities. 

A number of other addresses across the borough were also raided. The premises were searched and intelligence was gathered for use in future operations.

Officers have also been taking part in a number of other activities to crackdown on drugs related criminals.

These include plain clothes patrols in Sutton and Wallington and visits to empty premises.

Officers also visited a number of pubs to wipe surfaces for traces of drug use.

The police action follows a renewed call by the Met Police to encourage the public to come forward with information about who may be selling or cultivating drugs in their area.

Comments(3)

grasmith says...
4:43pm Thu 20 Sep 12

I think that the way to debunk this current thinking is to start continually banging on about the price of cannabis because it is the price and only the price which attracts the criminality.A comparable crop would be rose petals which are used at weddings and take about the same amount of care as cannabis buds and about the same amount of time to mature.Grown in polytunnels organically I estimate that a kilo of skunk could be commercially produced for as little as forty to eighty pounds.The kilo asking price around here is about four thousand pounds for good weed and it is this difference which is the lure for growers of all kinds.When we examine the price of sativex it makes the black market look like the pharmaceutical equivalent of poundshop.If we can get the message across that the whole debate is about a commodity which is only worth pennies in real commercial terms we may have a better message with which to answer the criminality argument of the prohibition lobby.

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SuperSilverSourDiesel says...
4:52pm Thu 20 Sep 12

Prohibiting cannabis doesn't mean it magically goes away, by not legally regulating, the control simply gets handed to criminals. The demand wont go away, after all humans have been using cannabis for over 10,000 years. When a country brings cannabis into a legal regulated system, drug use goes down, age of first use goes up and associated crimes decline. The statistical evidence is too strong to say otherwise.

The reasons why cannabis remains illegal have nothing to do with its 'harm' as its safer than alcohol and tobacco, even most pharmaceutical drugs. And Professor Terrie Moffitt, from the Institute of Psychiatry at King's College London, said, "I'm fairly confident that cannabis is safe for over-18 brains, but risky for under-18 brains."

Well we knew cannabis isnt good for teens and children, but the point is, its safe for most adults. But while prohibition disallows regulation, children will still find cannabis easier to obtain than alcohol and tobacco, even with those drugs regulated so poorly. Dealers dont ask for ID, and may also sell hard drugs and may pressurise the vulnerable. Not to mention dealers contaminating flower buds with weight gainers or hard drugs. Prohibition does nothing to stop them. Why carry on with this failing experiment? Vested interest, greed, cowardice, personal prejudice...nothing to do with expert advice, scientific evidence or our health. I dislike drug dealers and children using drugs or becoming enticed by gangsterism and lured in by organized crime, so i say NO to prohibition and NOW to legal regulation.

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moreachesandpains says...
6:22pm Thu 20 Sep 12

Cannabis is legally grown and sold in the UK by G W Pharmaceuticals. they grow 60,000 high potency plants in state of the art greenhouses in Kent. They sell the full extract, called Sativex or Nabiximols, to the NHS at huge profit and receive very generous tax breaks. They are doing no different to these enterprising people apart from the fact they are growing considerably more. The government deems Sativex (liquid cannabis) safe and effective medicine. So if you are a friend of the gov you don't get arrested and are free to make a profit. If you aren't, then you attract the attention of the police intent on wasting their time and your tax planning and executing these futile raids.

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