Pubdate: Mon, 15 Nov 2004
Source: Visayan Daily Star (Philippines)
Copyright: 2004 Visayan Daily Star
Contact:  http://www.visayandailystar.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/1688
Author: GPB
Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/pot.htm (Cannabis)

NO LET-UP IN THE CAMPAIGN AGAINST MARIJUANA PLANTATIONS.

The order come from Interior and Local Government Secretary Angelo Reyes to 
the Philippine National Police, and was relayed to all police regional 
offices by PNP chief Edgar Aglipay.

Reyes said in a statement that the campaign against marijuana by the 
Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency and other law enforcement agencies must 
be sustained until all marijuana plantations in the country are destroyed 
and eradicated.

Police investigations showed that the nine kilos of dried marijuana leaves 
shipped to Negros Occidental, intercepted by the police at the port of San 
Carlos City reportedly originated from a suspected plantation in Cebu

In June, a marijuana plantation was also discovered by the police in 
Salvador Benedicto town, Negros Occidental, and its alleged cultivator and 
financier was arrested.

Several kilos of dried marijuana leaves were also seized by the police in 
Bacolod City early this year.

After the series of confiscation of dried marijuana leaves and discovery of 
its plantation in Salvador Benedicto, the police tightened security in 
various ports of entry in Negros Occidental.

RA 9165 states that the cultivation of marijuana is punishable by death.

Early this month, the PDEA and police uprooted and destroyed P4 million 
worth of marijuana plants in Kapangan, Benguet.
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