Police on a high after drug busts

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Police on a high after drug busts

 

Tanya Westthorp | 12:01am May 5, 2012

 

MAGIC mushrooms and more than $160,000 worth of cannabis potentially bound for this weekend's Nimbin MardiGrass festival has been seized by Tweed police in a three-week operation smashing six hydroponic drug labs.

A 48-year-old Ewingsdale man will face Byron Bay Court this month after police found $135,000 worth of cannabis being grown in a hydroponic lab at a Bay Vista Drive home on Thursday.

Some of the 70 plants were up to 1m tall, with police also discovering several magic mushrooms and some cannabis resin.

It was one of six drug busts in the past three weeks as Tweed police act on intelligence gathered during their "dob in a druggie" campaign.

Other raids in the area include:

* Yesterday: Police charged a 63-year-old man after raiding a Tweed Heads South property where they found a hydroponic lab with eight cannabis plants.

* April 24: A 30-year-old Murwillumbah woman was charged with cultivating the drug after police found a small hydroponic lab, 15 cannabis plants and a quantity of dried cannabis leaf in a Railway St home last week.

* April 18: Police uncovered $16,000 worth of drugs at Numinbah, where a 56-year-old man was arrested.

* April 16: A 33-year-old man was charged with possessing 12 plants in a hydroponic set-up at Piggabeen.

* April 11: A 50-year-old Banora Point man was charged after cannabis worth $13,000 was found in a hydroponic lab in his home.

 

 

Tweed Police said it was likely some of the cannabis seized could have ended up at the Nimbin MardiGrass festival this weekend.

The festival draws thousands of people who protest against cannabis remaining illegal.

It also offers "golden bud passes" as its three-day entry ticket.

It is renowned for being a place where people go to smoke cannabis relatively freely, although Lismore police have warned those possessing the drug will "absolutely be charged".

 

http://www.goldcoast.com.au/article/2012/05/05/413175_crime-and-court-news.html

[Cerberus]

I loathe how the media and police like to guess where things are going to end up. Even though it may be true in a way, why mention it other than to create free advertising for MardiGrass?

 

What point did they make by mentioning it? is it saving the kids now that the general public know this weed may've ended up at MG?

 

Oh, and what sort of monetary incentives did the Police give to "dob in a druggie"?

[Ford Fairlane]

WTF why are they even bothering with personal use growers.. dumb cops need to go and bust some real crims...