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Homegrown cannabis boom fired up by cash-strapped middle class

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14940269

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Drug dealers are renting rooms in middle class, suburban homes to grow cannabis in as they attract less suspicion from the police.

"I do have some very unruly types living near me at the moment who are dealing drugs," says Amy - not her real name.

"But the times they've been raided and I have had a wry smile thinking 'you're in the wrong place, you should be over here, this is the house with all the drugs in,' but nobody knows."

Amy is a company executive from Cheshire's "gin and Jag" belt. She also grows cannabis in her loft.

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I think my neighbours would be really shocked if they knew what I was doing”

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She started growing cannabis after a colleague told her how to do it. She had been buying cannabis for her partner, who has multiple sclerosis, but was not comfortable meeting dealers in deserted car parks.

Within weeks of finding out how to grow a decent crop in her own home, she had become the latest upmarket recruit to cannabis farming. Now she uses the proceeds to supplement her already substantial income.

Evidence uncovered by 5 live Investigates suggests that there are many more like her.

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At a time when even relatively affluent people are feeling the economic squeeze, the opportunity to turn a quick profit is, for some members of Britain's middle class, proving irresistible.

Does anyone apart from Bobbdobbs have something that they want to get off their chest? ;)

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Fri Sep 23, 2011 1:36 pm
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I would think good on her, she's growing it to help her partner who has MS, but it seems to imply that she's making cash out of it too.

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I considered growing some for a friend with Motor Neurone Disease but he had already found out that Cannabis was not that effective for him.

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This has been going on for decades now. And apparently it'll only increase with the rise of the various Asian gangs...

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This has been going on for decades now. And apparently it'll only increase with the rise of the various Asian gangs...

Exactly though legalising it will lower the price and mean people can supply themselves. It is Vietnamese gangs now that dominate cannabis production in much of the country. Legalise it and tax it

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pcernie wrote:
This has been going on for decades now. And apparently it'll only increase with the rise of the various Asian gangs...

Exactly though legalising it will lower the price and mean people can supply themselves. It is Vietnamese gangs now that dominate cannabis production in much of the country. Legalise it and tax it


There's more chance of George Osborne taking... Oh, no, wait... ;)

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pcernie wrote:
There's more chance of George Osborne taking... Oh, no, wait... ;)

Do not forget the power of hypocrisy. They may have been raging cokeheads at uni but once in power they are vehement anti drugs. :roll:

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