When the police turned up to investigate a report of a burglary at a Coventry house, they arrived in time to see two young men walking off the drive.

Although it turned out they were not the burglars, but the victims, they were reluctant to let the officers go inside.

And Warwick Crown Court heard that the reason was that upstairs they had set up a cannabis factory, which had been the target of the burglary in July last year.

Mohammed Khan and Wajid Sarwar both pleaded guilty to producing cannabis at the house in Stanley Road, Coventry, and Sarwar also admitted possessing cannabis with intent to supply it.

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Police discovered more than 100 marijuana plants at an indoor grow operation at a Beaumont residence, which was partially powered by stolen electricity.

Members of the Beaumont Police Department's Multiple Enforcement Team served a search warrant Friday in the 1400 block of Moonlight Drive, where police said the second floor of the home was completely converted into a marijuana grow facility.

Police also found lights, ballasts, hydroponics and other grow equipment.

Southern California Edison confirmed that a bypass on the home's electrical supply allowed more than an estimated $18,000 in electricity to be  stolen to facilitate the operation.

No one was at the home Friday when the search warrant was served.

Dozens rallied in Mission on Saturday, a few weeks after RCMP officers executed search warrants on a store selling marijuana products.

The couple operating The BC Pain Society said they don’t know why they were targeted, but speculate it’s connected to other recent police raids in the province.

“How can we be punished for helping?’ asked Dawn Parker, whose husband operates the store. “We don’t make a lot of money.”

Cops received a tip that a shipment of drugs would be coming in from Seattle, and found 290 pounds of marijuana and mushrooms in a shipping container.

Seattle sent a slew of drugs our way — more than 290 pounds of marijuana and mushrooms.

Cops seized a shipping container on the Brooklyn waterfront loaded with wacky weed and other drugs, law enforcement sources said Saturday.

Cops found the container at a Maspeth Ave. dock in East Williamsburg near the Newtown Creek on Wednesday after Homeland Security tipped them off that a cargo container full of drugs was coming to Brooklyn from Seattle.

On Thursday evening, cops watched as two men and a woman pulled up in a U-Haul truck and a Hyundai.

VANCOUVER (NEWS 1130) – The Canadian government is moving forward with legalizing marijuana, but the RCMP is still cracking down on BC dispensaries.

Owner of Cannabis Culture Jodie Emery says now that the pot prohibition is ending, the arrests should stop too.

“Not one more person should be busted for marijuana as we move forward with legalization,” she explains. “They are not only wasting tax dollars that should be used in other ways, they are also saying to Canadians that they don’t care about their opinions and that they are going to enforce outdated laws.”

With the approach of new California laws that could pull marijuana regulation out of local hands, Yountville has taken a stance against growing cannabis within its boundaries.

An ordinance supported last week by the Town Council bars cultivation of the plant, enabling the Upvalley community to beat a state deadline to put a local growing ban in place. Without the law, Yountville faces the possible loss of authority over marijuana growing starting March 1, when new state regulations on cultivation take effect for cities and counties with no prohibitions of their own.

It's a sunny day in Bangkok. The wet season has finally made way to the dry and warm Thai winter. The city is calm, awaiting the herds of tourists who will arrive in December. It's even quiet at the normally buzzing Erawan shrine, in the centre of the city. This was the place where a bomb went off last August, killing more than twenty people. Since the attack, the shrine has become even more popular with tourists.

Spurred by a landmark pro-marijuana decision by its Supreme Court, Mexico has decided to move ahead with a national dispute on reforming cannabis policy.

The country will hold a series of 5 arguments across the country, from January to March, that will concentrate on marijuana-related concerns consisting of health ramifications, possible regulations, the potential for reducing drug-related violence, and whether cannabis is a human right, according to AFP News.

VIENNA (AP) — Vienna police say they have discovered a plantation with more than 700 marijuana plants at a warehouse close to a police dog center.

Police say one of their dogs caught a whiff of the plants in the Austrian capital's Floridsdorf district on Friday morning. Officers then saw a man taking a hose into the warehouse and searched the premises, finding 734 cannabis plants.

They said in a statement Saturday they also found 32 sacks stuffed with deep-frozen marijuana and a bag full of dried marijuana at the 27-year-old suspect's apartment.

Police say the man is denying wrongdoing. Spokesman Roman Hahslinger told the Austria Press Agency the suspect comes from outside Vienna and might not have known that a police facility was nearby.

Mexico's President Enrique Peña Nieto has reiterated his disapproval of legalizing marijuana in the country, setting the tables for a debate that could set a key precedent in drug policies throughout Latin America.

"I have clearly and categorically expressed my personal position on several occasions: I am not in favor of consumption or legalization of marijuana," the president affirmed during the inauguration of a new child welfare program on December 2, reported Proceso.