Smokin Moose
Fallen Cannabis Warrior & Ex Moderator
It's time for spring planting and among the crops grown in this area is illegal marijuana plants.
The OPP have issued a plea for the public to watch for and report marijuana farms, but to be careful, too, if you spot one.
"Do not approach an outdoor grow due to ( some ) ... being booby trapped or guarded," stated a release from the drug enforcement section, central east drug unit, Northumberland OPP. "If confronted by a marijuana grower, just leave the area, record any licence plates ... Call police or Crime Stoppers if you suspect or locate a marijuana grow operation."
Police said prime growing areas are swamps, corn fields, wooded areas and along rivers.
Once an area is located, growers will bring in large bags of fertilizer, shovels, chemicals, pails and the plants, which mature in about five months, police said. The plants are bright green in colour with seven jagged fingers on the leaves. They grow between three and five feet in height and give off an odour similar to that of a skunk, police said.
Indicators of a marijuana farm in an area are abandoned vehicles parked on side roads or trails, people walking in remote areas, the fertilizers/shovels/chemicals, well trampled trails in wooded or swampy areas and cornfields, cleared ground in those areas, and numerous no-trespassing signs, police said.
In 2007, the central drug unit seized more than 40,000 plants from outdoor growing operations.
Source: Intelligencer, The (CN ON)
Copyright: 2008, Osprey Media Group Inc.
Contact: newsroom@intelligencer.ca
Website: Belleville Intelligencer - Ontario, CA
The OPP have issued a plea for the public to watch for and report marijuana farms, but to be careful, too, if you spot one.
"Do not approach an outdoor grow due to ( some ) ... being booby trapped or guarded," stated a release from the drug enforcement section, central east drug unit, Northumberland OPP. "If confronted by a marijuana grower, just leave the area, record any licence plates ... Call police or Crime Stoppers if you suspect or locate a marijuana grow operation."
Police said prime growing areas are swamps, corn fields, wooded areas and along rivers.
Once an area is located, growers will bring in large bags of fertilizer, shovels, chemicals, pails and the plants, which mature in about five months, police said. The plants are bright green in colour with seven jagged fingers on the leaves. They grow between three and five feet in height and give off an odour similar to that of a skunk, police said.
Indicators of a marijuana farm in an area are abandoned vehicles parked on side roads or trails, people walking in remote areas, the fertilizers/shovels/chemicals, well trampled trails in wooded or swampy areas and cornfields, cleared ground in those areas, and numerous no-trespassing signs, police said.
In 2007, the central drug unit seized more than 40,000 plants from outdoor growing operations.
Source: Intelligencer, The (CN ON)
Copyright: 2008, Osprey Media Group Inc.
Contact: newsroom@intelligencer.ca
Website: Belleville Intelligencer - Ontario, CA
