Raids in the West Midlands netted about £1 million of cannabis last month.

One of many bags of cannabis seized by West Midlands Police

The West Midlands Police cannabis disposal team said during September they seized an estimated £1 million of cannabis, and recycled 398 light bulbs.

This includes a raid earlier this week at a home in Wolverhampton, where police found 351 plants in an attic and downstairs.

A 36-year-old man was arrested at the Granville Street, All Saints address on Tuesday.

Earlier this month police found an eight foot cannabis plant growing in a back garden in Stourport.

In August, more than £2million worth of cannabis was seized, with 3,912 plants destroyed.

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On 19th April next year, the countries of the United Nations will meet in special session in New York to debate the future of global drugs policy. The starting gun on government negotiations for the summit was fired last week at a meeting of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs in Vienna.

He was part of a gang which turned a secluded mansion into a massive cannabis factory as part of a multi-million pound drugs plot.

But Mark Gallagher, aged 49, of Wolverhampton Road East, Parkfields, Wolverhampton was caught following a raid on his flat, Carlisle Crown Court heard.

Officers found 163 cannabis plants being grown and a laptop with searches for Grade II listed Flass House, in Cumbria, along with news stories on police investigations into cannabis production.

At Flass House, near Penrith, plants were found with an estimated street value between £31,700 and £63,400.

Mark Gallagher

A “HABITUAL” drug user has been banned from the roads after being caught driving with more than five times the legal amount of cannabis in his system.

Dean Holcroft of Petticoat Lane, Ince, pleaded guilty to two charges, including possession of the class B drug, at Wigan and Leigh Magistrates’ Court.

The court heard that on August 5, police stopped Holcroft on Manchester Road after they saw his car had blue side lights.

But upon inspecting the vehicle, the officers noticed a strong smell of cannabis.

And after testing the defendant at the roadside, it was found he had 11 micrograms of the drug in his system, the legal limit is two.

Earlier this week, in a crowded meeting room in central London, the United Patients Alliance (UPA) convened a discussion about medical cannabis. The UPA is a group of volunteers from around the United Kingdom, all of who suffer from debilitating ailments that could be alleviated with cannabis use. The discussion involved individuals emotively describing the harrowing experiences that they had endured with their illnesses, their anger at being prevented from legally accessing their medicine, and their hope for policy reform.

Is all marijuana from a singles species, cannabis sativa? Or are there three distinct species: cannabis sativa, cannabis indica, and cannabis ruderalis?

Weed connoisseurs have long grappled with the issue as, intent on their pursuit of a more perfect buzz, they have now built up a couple of generations’ worth of experience with plant breeding, hybridization and cross-pollination. That was pretty much all in the pursuit of getting high, but in the past couple of decades, interest has also turned to cannabinoids other than THC, such as cannabidiol (CBD), with all its apparent medicinal properties, not to mention increased interest in industrial hemp.

CLEAR has been mobilising its members as never before to lobby their MPs in advance of the cannabis debate on 12th October.

There are honourable exceptions but most responses have been unhelpful, dismissive and have completely failed to deal with the arguments put forward.  Most MPs are indoctrinated with the false reporting churned out by the press, scared stiff of the subject and not prepared to look any deeper.

It is a terrible indictment of these people, each of whom costs us about £250,000 per year in salary and expenses. Most simply do not do their job properly, certainly not in the interests of or representing their constituents, mainly they just pursue their own political ambitions and interests. They cannot be bothered to deal with the cannabis issue.

Two men have been jailed after causing an explosion in a Glasgow flat when they tried to extract cannabis oil using butane gas.

Stewart Hamilton, 40, and Daniel Gallagher, 21, set the Govan flat alight and shattered the windows.

They were both blown across the room and Hamilton suffered 8% burns to his head and body.

Hamilton was jailed for 15 months and Gallagher for a year at Glasgow Sheriff Court.

The court had heard that during their experiment, the men used YouTube videos as an instruction manual.

Police officers were alerted to the explosion and found the pair receiving treatment for their injuries in hospital.

Benjamin Koops ordered the Class B drug through the "dark web" - where typically parts of the internet can only be accessed using special software.

A Nottingham philosophy student has been caught importing cannabis from the USA.

Benjamin Koops ordered the Class B drug through the "dark web" - where typically parts of the internet can only be accessed using special software.

He paid for the drugs with Bitcoin, a type of internet currency.

Nottingham Crown Court heard two packages of cannabis were intercepted by the National Crime Agency and traced to Koops, of Midland Avenue, in Lenton.