Police in Chania, on the island of Crete, uprooted an expanse of 200 cannabis plants on Saturday 26 August 2006 after a police helicopter spotted them during regular air inspections.[1] The plants, up to five metres tall and in full bloom, stood in an agricultural area between the villages of Stylos and Nio Chorio near the Armeni municipality, on land that had once been an orange grove near the area’s soccer field.[1] Officers noted the crop had been watered the previous night and began investigating who had planted it.[1]

The find was the second in less than a week: on Tuesday police had spotted and uprooted another expanse of 1,007 cannabis plants.[1] All 1,207 plants were destroyed by police.[1]