Gendarmes seized more than 1,000 cannabis plants in French Polynesia, including 865 plants and 200 grams of dried cannabis on Huahine. Growers from plantations on Huahine, Toahotu and Paea were summoned before the Papeete criminal court.
🇵🇫 Huahine, Toahotu and Paea · French Polynesia
The growers from the different plantations were all summoned before the Papeete criminal court.[1] On Huahine, gendarmes found 865 plants spread across several points of the island.[1]
On Huahine they also found 200 grams of dried cannabis in a freezer.[1] Other seizures totalling more than a hundred plants were made at Toahotu on Tahiti’s peninsula and at Paea.[1] Altogether, more than a thousand paka plants, the local name for cannabis, were seized during that week.[1]
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