Police in Dover have found over 100 cannabis plants in a house fitted with lighting and heating equipment used to grow the drug.
Police officers responded to complaints about a 'strange smell' in Russell Street, which turned out to be the site of a local Cannabis factory.
The police have arrested a 43 year old man on suspision of cultivating cannabis and theft of electricity. The man is suspected of stealing electricity from local power sources in order to aid in the production of the class B drug.
This is just another case in a number of similar incidents in the area, with over 1,770 cannabis plants being seized from a house in Folkestone Road, Dover in February this year. The man arrested is currently serving a three year jail sentence.
The Government recently re-classified the drug from class C up to class B, meaning that anyone arrested on suspision of dealing can serve a maximum of 14 years imprisonment.
Although users will still not receive an on the spot fine, surely it will not be long until the punishment for cannabis growers becomes something that will deter them.
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