Here's how many cannabis plants are seized by police in the UK each year

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An average of a quarter of a million cannabis plants are discovered each year across the country.

And a study has said this would have a total street value of more than £62 million.

The figures are from a National Police Chiefs’ Council (NPCC) study. It’s based on information from the returns of 27 police forces across the UK, and they added the commercial cultivation of cannabis “continues to pose a significant risk to the UK”.

They say in some cases the production and selling of the class B drug was used to fund other criminal activity – money laundering, human trafficking and illegal immigration.

Conviction data cited in the report said the majority of those caught commercially cultivating cannabis are white British men aged between 25 and 34 years of age.

But also foreign nationals are smuggled into the UK and work as gardeners on large cannabis grows.

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