Leaf of Cannabis עברית: עלה של קנביס (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Dense raceme of carpellate flowers typical of drug-type varieties of Cannabis. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)DETECTIVES have seized one of their biggest cannabis hauls ever in Tasmania's far North-West.Twenty-seven kilograms of cannabis, with a street value of about $300,000, was seized from a property outside Smithton two weeks ago.
The bush weed had been harvested and was being processed when police swooped.
A 52-year-old Smithton man has been arrested and charged with drug trafficking and has been summoned to appear in the Smithton Court of Petty Sessions.
Police believe other people were involved in growing the crop and in plans to distribute the drugs. Investigations are continuing.
"This was not a one-man operation and we believe other people had knowledge of the crop,"
Detective-Sergeant Simon Conroy said at the Burnie police station yesterday.
Det-Sgt Conroy said the Tasmanian cannabis growing season was now coming to an end and police had swooped on the property after receiving a tip-off from the public.
He said the cannabis was ready for sale and the crop was too big to justify any potential claims it had been grown for personal use.
"Hopefully, the seizure will affect cannabis supply in Circular Head and the greater North-West Coast area," Det-Sgt Conroy said.
"We also hope the demonstration that information from the public can result in seizures of this scale will prompt other people to come forward."
Tasmania's Drug Investigation Services charged 436 offenders with serious drug trafficking, or selling, offences in 2010-2011. Just over 220kg of processed cannabis and 4952 plants were seized.
The latest raid follows another in Glenorchy last year during which a traffickable quantity of cannabis was seized as part of a robbery investigation.
In August last year, a Rokeby man who smuggled cannabis with a street value of nearly $65,000 on a Spirit of Tasmania ferry was jailed for eight months.
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