Portuguese Police Bust Criminal Gang Operating As Medical Cannabis Cultivators - Business of Cannabis

The Portuguese police have launched a large-scale operation on their territory, carried out simultaneously in other European countries, to dismantle a network of misappropriation of plants for the supply of the drug market.

Portuguese Police Bust Criminal Gang Operating As Medical Cannabis Cultivators - Business of Cannabis

Portuguese cultivators have welcomed moves by the country’s police to crack down on a criminal gang using loopholes in its medical cannabis laws to cultivate and illegally export around £15m of product. Earlier this week Portuguese police served 64 search and seizure warrants as part of operation ‘Erva Daninha’ (Weed), which had been launched in 2022 in close collaboration with Spanish police; the Policía Nacional. The Portuguese Judicial Police…