Albanian Village of Lazarat - Believed to produce about 900 metric tons of cannabis a year, worth about 4.5 billion euros (£3.5 billion/ $6.1 billion) - roughly half of the small Balkan countrys GDP. On the second day of operations Tuesday, police numbers were reinforced to 800 and officers took control of about a quarter of the village, seizing considerable quantities of marijuana and ammunition, as well as drug-processing machinery. Amid near-continuous gunfire, they also destroyed 11,000 cannabis plants, and were planning to gingerly advance into gang-defended areas. Marijuana-growing gangs in the village have long seen themselves as beyond the reach of the law. In 2004, shots from the village forced an Italian drug-spotting helicopter to make a hasty retreat. Until ten years ago, Lazarat was a regular farming community. Now the village in southern Albania is Europes biggest illegal marijuana producer, raking in billions of euros every year from the plants openly cultivated in fields and house gardens. dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2658903/Albanian-police-storm-lawless-marijuana-village.html
Posted on: Mon, 30 Jun 2014 15:13:05 +0000
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