New mission; if anyone wants to, take the time to jot down notes when you're watching videos online, on any and all drug/pot topics. Such as the Following - these are rough notes for the BBC Scotland Investigates film "Hash in the Attic". How delicious! Did you know that their is a bread of super-skunk that can yield up to three hundred pounds per plant - mind you, I might be confused; yield weight or their money, which is also in pounds - sounds fun, though.
I watched this film on Ninja Video, and so can you! Enjoy!
BBC Scotland – Hash In the Attic
Multi-Million Pound Criminal Business Sprung up over night in Suburbia; prostitution, murder, slavery – ‘sea of green’ fuels these criminal transgressions. (First Minute). Marijuana is a hardcore drug grown by syndical people with predatory natures who will do anything to ensure their fortune.
The 6o’s influenced us, cannabis ‘getting one over on the system’, soft drug, 2 ½ million brits still smoke it – harmless, right? Darker side of the business.
Dark side of cannabis farming – police preparing for a raid. ‘Warning; this guy has history of violence and weapons, so pack spray and batons”.
Growers need one thing – unobtrusive property to set up in (like suburban Scotland).
Suspect does the ‘smart thing’, opens door. (2:41).
Officers are inside stripping the place in a flash – ‘despite his violent past’ suspect cooperating; Pulp Fiction poster. Suspect arrested ‘cause there is pot there. In attic, suburban cannabis farm.
“Roughly fifty adult plants.” Watering cans, though sometimes timed irrigation system. Ventilation system through rough for ‘heat and smell’. All specialized lighting comes from ‘bypassed’ metre, ‘just two thin strands’. (4:44). “Insult to injury” – ‘wee bit of knowledge is a dangerous thing’.
50 plants – more than enough for personal use, constitute dealing amounts, more than personal use – officers have faces covered with masks.
Police reckon 10, 000 (money pounds) worth of Cannabis – and its everywhere, all the nice places in Scotland. Police seizures total roughly Ten million pounds a year (money) –worth around 1oo million pounds per year (money). All in the last three years.
This is worth more than 2x eggs, 10x Scottish raspberries, equivalent to all Scottish vegetable crop – equivalent in moneys.
Almost all farms discovered in rented properties “could be right next door to your eye” – value of plants “thousands and thousands of pounds” – setup cost 3000 pounds – small outlay for profit potential.
Grow op only found after electrical fire burned into ‘family home’ below – Insurance companies pay out 10’s of millions in damages, electrical companies lose millions in utilities (8:00), 17,000 pounds damage on average that the owner (small leaser) will have to pay because they have mismanaged their home (as the fire was caused by their lease).
Not difficult if you’ve got the know-how to do it; Space, accommodation, anyone can grow it…
Who are the people being chased by Alan Buchannan and anti-pot team?
Kaya Russell-Whittaker. Something of an ‘expert’ in Cannabis Farming. Well educated with University Degree. Interest in marijuana more than academic. ‘More than 117, 000 pounds made in one year – easy as baking a cake, by end of second crop one is a mature grower able to go on and grow their own, aware of the potential problems…”
Makes growing seem almost ‘romantic’…(11:07) – ‘all feels like being in a James bond Movie!’; rucksack of marijuana and one gets 12-16 thousand pounds in cash.
Kay ‘fearful’ of old drug contacts, with ‘scores to settle’. Her ‘neighbour’ recognized her, time to flee…
Addicted to her own product, life began to fall apart. ‘Dealing with paranoia, depression, fringes of society. May have bag full of cash, but really nothing else…’
Kay “Legacy, marijuana from 60’s, sexual revolution, wonderful drug, fantastic hippie drug, those days are gone, history, marijuana is a hardcore drug grown by syndical people who will use anyone, their own children, accomplished predators, will do anything to make their profit. Will use anybody to launder money (14:00).
Why is this drug so different, and a moneymaker? Forensic testing lab.
Three main forms of cannabis;
Traditional Imported.
Resin.
New Product; Skunk Cannabis. The above two are ‘traditional’, dating back to 10-20 years ago, skunk is now the new product. Much more valuable. Dominates market 3/4 – shift in market domination is chemically very different to resin – can be up to five times as strong, typically three times as strong, huge difference – pint of beer: pint of port….
Officers see more and more people trying to get into the pot industry – concern over who the operator is supplying with new super-strength drug – school children? Suspect, a woman, in bed (naked!) – find cash and list of drug clients; more significant, chunks of cannabis resin, indi’ wrapped for sale. ‘For schoolchildren?’
Officers find ‘veritable library’ of books for ‘growing’ – tried twice in past, failed miserably; ‘no green fingered gardener’; possibly only her ‘incompetence’ preventing her from setting up a ‘skunk-factory’ to serve the local school children, “suggestion was” (18:55) she was actually dealing to the kids there. “Alleged potential customers…”!!!!
Asking Kaya whether she can accept her role in transforming the accessibility of a ‘super strength drug for the next generation’ – ‘Guilt?’ ‘Who will I have to blame (if my children get into marijuana)? Myself!’
Farms on different scale; factories fueling the skunk market – (20:30); scale of cultivation, hundreds of hundreds of plants. Everywhere police turn, more and more plants, “plants heavy with bud”…
“Each plant will yield approximately three hundred pounds per plant!!!” (23:33)
How much cash can a factory like that generate?
Only consistent research produced by a team in Wiggin – Matthew Acka and his team?
3-4 hundred pounds every three-4 months, used by grower themselves.
Grow room, 10-15 pounds worth; grower and friends.
15, 000 pounds (money) per crop, thousands of pounds a year (5 crops)
Industrial ones can produce 100 thousand (pounds of money) per year.
Massive capital investment required to do this – only one business, ‘organised crime’ – that’s what worries police.
‘…could end up with violence down the street.”
A ‘global business’ - those ‘chinese, chineese green tea, Chinese food, chopsticks’ (26:33) – most of these criminal growers are Chinese individuals, illegals, making millions of pounds out of us, people trafficking, prostitution. Individuals ‘locked in’ forced to grow cannabis, while ‘money men’ take the cash and none of the risk – abduction, trafficking, forcing people into brothels and sex trade – next time you think about rolling a joint, think about the consequences your money is funding.
An industry which is growing, and growing – do you know who is living next door to you?
