£2.5m worth of cannabis seized by West Midlands Police in November

An estimated £2.5 million worth of cannabis was seized in November by West Midlands Police, taking the total for the year to nearly £20m.

And official figures show that annual drug seizures across England and Wales have fallen dramatically to the lowest number in almost a decade.

There were 167,059 seizures by police and Border Force staff across the two countries in 2014/2015, down from 194,346 in 2013/14. Class B drugs accounted for most of the seizures in 2014/15 – 132,253 in total, down 17 per cent on the previous year. As recently as Tuesday, more than 280 cannabis plants were discovered at a house in Smethwick, with police estimating the haul to be worth thousands pounds.

Officers were called to the house in Cheshire Road and discovered that four rooms inside the home had been converted into a cannabis factory. Two weeks ago around £300,00 worth of cannabis was...

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