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The RCMP seized more than 20,000 plants in New Brunswick during their annual marijuana eradication program, a force spokesman said Monday.
Operation Sabot was conducted between Aug. 22 and Sept. 19. Every year, the RCMP and the military scour New Brunswick for marijuana plants. They fly over rural areas with helicopters and conduct searches on the ground.
Sgt. Robert Powers, spokesman for the RCMP Drug Enforcement Team, said the plants were seized from grow operations around the province.
"They were actually spread out quite evenly, geographically speaking, across the province," he said. "The average grow was [relatively] small, probably about 100-300 plants. But in total they equal a great deal of marijuana."
Powers said many of the plants were still waiting to be harvested.
"In many of the cases, the buds were still on plants and the plants were of high quality," he said.
He said the RCMP are concerned about local grow operations because the drugs produced here will likely stay in New Brunswick.
"Some of it would have been exported to the [U.S.], but I think a lot of it would have stayed here," he said. "Aside from the organized crime grow [operations], where a great deal of it was leaving the province, these local grows have a tendancy to stay [in the province]."
No charges have been laid in connection with the drug busts.
Newshawk: 420AM&PM - 420 Magazine
Source: CBC News (Canada)
Pubdate: October 2, 2006
Author: Tony Burman
Copyright: Copyright © CBC 2006
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Operation Sabot was conducted between Aug. 22 and Sept. 19. Every year, the RCMP and the military scour New Brunswick for marijuana plants. They fly over rural areas with helicopters and conduct searches on the ground.
Sgt. Robert Powers, spokesman for the RCMP Drug Enforcement Team, said the plants were seized from grow operations around the province.
"They were actually spread out quite evenly, geographically speaking, across the province," he said. "The average grow was [relatively] small, probably about 100-300 plants. But in total they equal a great deal of marijuana."
Powers said many of the plants were still waiting to be harvested.
"In many of the cases, the buds were still on plants and the plants were of high quality," he said.
He said the RCMP are concerned about local grow operations because the drugs produced here will likely stay in New Brunswick.
"Some of it would have been exported to the [U.S.], but I think a lot of it would have stayed here," he said. "Aside from the organized crime grow [operations], where a great deal of it was leaving the province, these local grows have a tendancy to stay [in the province]."
No charges have been laid in connection with the drug busts.
Newshawk: 420AM&PM - 420 Magazine
Source: CBC News (Canada)
Pubdate: October 2, 2006
Author: Tony Burman
Copyright: Copyright © CBC 2006
Contact: CBC.ca - Contact Us
Website: CBC.CA - Canada's News, Money, Sports, Health, Technology & Science, Consumer Life, Arts, and Kids Information Source
