{"id":32835,"date":"2016-09-06T22:15:00","date_gmt":"2016-09-06T22:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/merryjane.com\/albania-police-destroy-cannabis-plants\/"},"modified":"2016-09-06T22:15:00","modified_gmt":"2016-09-06T22:15:00","slug":"albania-police-destroy-cannabis-plants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/merryjane.com\/news\/albania-police-destroy-cannabis-plants\/","title":{"rendered":"Albanian Police Destroy 1.7 Million Cannabis Plants in 2016 Alone"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you’re smoking a bowl right now I suggest you put your piece down.  There is an awakening among us that have decided cannabis is nothing to be vilified, in fact quite the opposite.  A global war on drugs is being waged and the DEA <\/span>confirmed it last week.  <\/p>\n

The DEA also confirmed their stance on natural medicines that help a countless amount of diseases by re-classifying Krantom<\/a><\/span> a well-known natural remedy for opioid and painkiller addiction.<\/p>\n

In a globalist economy we can only observe patterns within a complicated world of policing pot.  Albania is a major country fighting a war on drugs because the Southeastern European nation has been a major producer of cannabis in Europe since the 1990s.  <\/span><\/p>\n

The village of Lazarat was known as “Europe’s cannabis capital<\/a>" <\/span>and has been a central hub of production and the government has begun to crack down on the agricultural area.  <\/p>\n

Pick your piece back up and take a big rip.<\/span><\/p>\n

In June 2014 over 800 officers raided the tiny village and were able to gain control of the area after a five day shootout with local villagers.  Lazarat alone was producing 900 tons of marijuana per year which amounted to <\/span>€ 4.5 billion, nearly half of Albania’s gross domestic product.  <\/p>\n

Albanian police have “successfully” destroyed over 1.7 million cannabis plants this year alone.  Altin Qato, a senior police director says they have destroyed three times as many plants as last year. More than<\/span> 150 people have been arrested in the germinating genocide so far.<\/a>  <\/p>\n

Qato says that cannabis growers have utilized remote areas surrounded by mountains, inaccessible to vehicles and parcels of land with no owner, “which has made police work very difficult.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Offenders who have been found guilty of production, sale, distribution and possession of drugs can face five to ten years in prison.  Drug trafficking holds a punishment of between seven to fifteen years in prison.  Qato says the country’s fight against its main export is far from over.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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