Three arrested over plantation at their home

The National Police have dismantled a secret crop of marijuana in Orihuela, which had 375 plants, and arrested three men accused of a public health offence and electricity fraud.

The operation started when an off duty officer noticed two people violently tampering with the lock on the door of a house. When he asked what was going on, he noticed they seemed nervous considering one of them claimed to live there.

The police went about checking who owned the property and then noticed there was a strong smell of marijuana coming from inside and so applied for a search warrant.

Spain’s cannabis decriminalisation shows how deluded and uneducated Cameron and the UK government really are! Why we should be following Spain’s legislation and face the many problems created by criminalisation and illegal cannabis in the UK?

A Dutch yacht was so overloaded with 10 tons of cannabis, it was in danger of sinking off the southern Spanish coast.

Spain’s finance ministry reported Monday that Spanish customs officials seized around 10 ton of cannabis from the unwieldy yacht in international waters off the Cabo de Gata coast some 92 kilometers (57 miles) southwest of the city of Almeria.

According to the Spanish language newspaper El Pais, three Dutch suspects, two men and one woman, were arrested from the yacht, which was flying a Dutch flag and severely in danger of sinking due to its heavy cannabis cargo.

The Spanish police denounce the accumulation of large amounts of marijuana on their premises after seizures.

The smell of marijuana is so strong that we feel "like we smoked something illegal," complain Spanish police officers. They denounce the accumulation of large amounts of this plant on their premises after seizures.

"This is the case in all police stations in Catalonia, at this time of the year," said Josep Miquel Milagros, the spokesman of a police union of Catalonia, Thursday. The problem particularly affects rural areas where police stations are more cramped.

Spanish customs officers have seized some 10 tons of cannabis from a yacht off the country's southern coast

MADRID – Spanish authorities say an inmate has set up what police say is the country’s largest outdoor illegal marijuana plantation.

The 47-year-old Spaniard set up the operation within a 7.4 acre olive grove purchased while on prison leave, Interior Ministry spokesman Federico Pozuelo says.

The prisoner relied on a 59-year-old Lithuanain assistant to tend 75,000 cannabis plants weighing five metric tons. The drugs are valued at 5 million euros ($7.4 million CAD).

Police say the farm, situated in central Albacete, was surrounded by a protective perimeter wall of dung and garbage that masked the plants’ telltale aroma.

Only recently we had published an article explaining how scientists at the National Institute of Health (NIH) have found cannabis to be a potential killer of cancer cells. You can read the article here. 

On that note, we're going to talk about a scientific explanation that supports the NIH claim: "cannabis and cannabinoids may have benefits in treating the symptoms of cancer or the side effects of cancer therapies."

In the Strait of Gibraltar (Spain) (AFP) - As the powerful motors of their speedboat roared, Spanish police used a thermal imaging camera to scan the sea in the Strait of Gibraltar for traffickers smuggling hashish from Morocco.

It's just after midnight and the cameras and radars that monitor the coast detect a dodgy-looking boat.

The control centre informs police in Algeciras, a port city in southern Spain just 90 minutes by ferry from Morocco, and three officers immediately jump into the boat to investigate.

"They are likely looking for a place to unload their merchandise," said one of them, Jesus, who declined to give his last name.

Over the last five years, Spain has come to rival the Netherlands as Europe's cannabis hub. The country's legal framework around weed, which allows its use and sale within private members clubs, has been fully taken advantage of in the north of the country, particularly in the Catalonia region, where clubs reportedly make an estimated $6 million in sales each month.