Cannabis plants stolen from police station

CHEEKY crooks left police looking dopey by ransacking a cop shop – and stealing cannabis back. The brazen thieves broke into a Merseyside Police station and swiped several plants.

It is not clear how many marijuana plants were stolen but each fully grown one is worth up to £900.
Other items to have been pilfered from police premises include 13 pedal bikes worth £7,650, two iPhones, an iPad and a £150 pair of Nike trainers.

While one red-faced officer was forced to explain how their flat cap was stolen from their police car.
 The embarrassing revelations came to light during a Freedom of Information request to Merseyside Police asking for all the recorded items stolen from their buildings, including stations, custody suites headquarters and command centres, and vehicles since January 2015.

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How to invest in the cannabis industry

With cannabis industry growth exceeding 29% per year, there’s never been a better time to invest in a marijuana business.

 Due to the infancy of the cannabis industry, public stocks are still highly volatile with questionable underlying assets. Private companies will be the best investments for the next few years, and California will likely continue to be the largest market in the States. Canada also has a rapidly expanding legal cannabis industry.

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100s of "Drug Drivers" framed by false lab results

Almost 500 drug-drive prosecutions are to be re-investigated after fears test data may have been manipulated. Bosses at Randox Testing Services believe there are as many as 484 suspected cases of manipulation at its Manchester office.

The company has provided forensic services to police forces, including Greater Manchester Police , for the past two years.
Police have launched a probe to find out if lab workers at the health company doctored the results of tests on blood, urine and hair.
Two analysts have been questioned over alleged tampering at a lab used by more than half of UK police forces. They are now on police bail.
One has been suspended from the lab, the M.E.N understands.
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£1 million weed factory found in nuclear bunker, UK

•  A boy aged 15 is one of six people arrested after police found the huge drug haul in a nuclear bunker
• Another five men, aged between 19 and 45, have been held on drug offences with three of those held on human trafficking offences as well
• The £1million farm was found in 20-room RGHC Chilmark Bunkers in Wiltshire during a midnight raid
• Detective Inspector Paul Franklin said it was probably one of the biggest hauls ever found in the county

Thousands of cannabis plants worth more than £1million were discovered in a midnight raid on an underground nuclear bunker once owned by the government. 

A boy aged 15 is one of six people to be arrested following the raid of the RGHC Chilmark Bunkers near Chilamrk in Wiltshire.

The 20-room building, which was built in the 1980s by the Ministry of Defence, was designed to be impenetrable to anyone without a secret key in order to protect government officials and dignitaries in the event of a nuclear attack.

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Clever teenagers twice as likely to smoke cannabis, study finds

Clever children are twice as likely to smoke cannabis during their teenage years due to their curious minds, a landmark study has revealed.
Students who are high academic achievers at the age of 11 are also more likely to drink alcohol as teenagers, but less likely to smoke tobacco cigarettes, a nine-year study by University College London found.

 Analysing data for 6,059 young people from state-funded and fee-paying schools in England, experts deemed bright children less likely to smoke cigarettes as teenagers but more likely to smoke cannabis.
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Dutch MPs vote in favour of cannabis cultivation

Dutch lawmakers on Tuesday voted in favor of tolerating the cultivation of cannabis, a move that could bring to an end a key paradox of the relaxed Dutch policy on marijuana and hashish.

Buying small amounts of pot at so-called coffee shops has long been tolerated in the Netherlands, but cultivating and selling the drug to the coffee shops themselves has remained illegal.
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