Neuss - Unbelievable: Ironically on the campus of St. Alexius Hospital, treated in the drug also discovered EXPRESS on Thursday thanks to a tip near a cannabis field of substance abuse.
Officials of the Neuss Drugs Commissariat have around 100 cannabis plants, whose flowers are produced from the drug marijuana torn out, and taken immediately.
Police spokesman Willy Arnold: "It was a plantation, which was hidden in the clinic area behind a farm along a wall. The plants reach about two meters high on the drug investigation into the State Crime and then be destroyed. "
What makes the discovery especially piquant: The plantation was located not far from the drug treatment centers at St. Alexius Hospital, where addicts are treated in inpatient or outpatient basis.
An employee of the clinic said: "Maybe one wanted to provide for their own use or has meant, the place was very suspicious." So far could not be found out who harvest ripe and already heavily invested after smelling cannabis plantation. It is clear: From the plants would marijuana "can in no small amount" will be produced. The investigations are underway.
Vera Thaller, spokeswoman for the hospital to the Express: "We were very surprised that something like this exist in our hospital grounds. Of course we have assisted the police and are glad that the plants are destroyed. We knew, of course, none of it. The plants stand aside so that they could not recognize it so quickly. "
In recent years, in the Düsseldorf area and found primarily on the Lower growing cannabis plantations in sheds, garages or warehouses. In this they have been professionally bred with a complex and refined irradiation and irrigation system. The aim of breeders is to avoid imports, and to facilitate trade and to achieve higher drug concentrations (THC). The breeding of plants and the trade in Marihuna is punishable () up to five years in prison.
