Cartel Smashed

[WantDaChronic]

Cartel smashed

 

Authorities have smashed one of Australia's biggest alleged drug cartels.

 

The Australian newspaper reports the group is accused of growing and distributing tonnes of high-grade marijuana for more than a decade.

 

Police allege 58-year-old grazier Alexander Malcolm Lane grew potent hybrids of the drug on at least 10 properties across Cape York and around Cairns.

 

Small helicopters were then allegedly used to fly the harvested crops from the remote plantations to a network of inland roads for distribution to Sydney and Melbourne.

 

Several people have been arrested, and more raids are expected in the joint police and Australian Crime Commission investigation, which has been on going for more than three years.

 

Source: Sky News Active on Austar Digital and the online version

 

how big a crop must you have in order to use helicopters to transport it

[Guest niall]

How is that a cartel?

[WantDaChronic]

fucked if i know, its just what was written on the news

[pipeman]

How is that a cartel?

 

 

well I guess there was more than one person involved.

[nugget]

well I guess there was more than one person involved.

 

True, but did they "enter a collusive agreement to restrict output in order to raise prices and profits"?

 

Defintion of cartel

 

[mull]

Touche' Nugget, rippa mate!

 

'Cartel' is more like what the government does to cannabis!