Police nab two cannabis growers in cemetery

[datamunky]

Author: Reporting by Ho Binh Minh; Editing by Jerry Norton

Date: 7/7/2008

Source: Reuters

Copyright: © Thomson Reuters 2008 All rights reserved

 

HANOI (Reuters) - Police have detained two custodians who were about to harvest their first crop of cannabis, a source of drugs like hashish and marijuana, from a cemetery in Vietnam's capital, a state-run newspaper reported on Monday.

 

Police took in Nguyen Manh Hung, 44, who heads the caretaker team at the cemetery in Hanoi's outer district of Hoang Mai, and Ho A Lau, 46, after the authorities found cannabis plants grown on a 25 square meter (82 square feet) patch, the Vietnam Labour Confederation-run Lao Dong newspaper said.

 

Lau, a tribal man from the northern mountainous province of Son La bordering Laos, testified he obtained the seeds in Son La for cultivation from early 2008 and that the harvest would soon start.

 

Vietnam has strict drug trafficking laws, including in some cases the death penalty, but it has long been used as a transit point for trade in heroin, hashish, opium, amphetamine pills and other illegal drugs.

 

(Reporting by Ho Binh Minh; Editing by Jerry Norton)

[roy]

Poor buggers first crop ready to harvest They alreday would have had mental images of they were going to make

 

Oh well the best thing they can hope for is that they get sent to the same prison so they can watch each others back

 

cheers roy

[iamnotacop]

I would prefer my carcass to be pushing up Cannabis rather than Daisies.