A conspiracy to sell marijuana wrapped in candy wrappers falls

Wrap medicines in flashy candy wrappers to pass them off as legal products. That was the ploy a conspiracy used to sell marijuana flowers in sports nutrition stores, grow shops (legal establishments for the sale of cannabis seeds), tobacconists and gas stations across much of Spain until the guard busted them. civil. Agents from the Armed Institute found that several companies in the province of Almería were selling the counterfeit jewelry, leading them to locate a company that made them in neighboring Granada. Nine people were arrested and a further 147 were under investigation in connection with the case.

The company based near the capital Granada, which manufactured and disguised the drug, had a “perfectly organized” structure for distribution and sales, which gave it huge economic advantages, the Armed Institute reported in a press release on Saturday. . In order to determine the origin of the products and the development of the distribution network, the agents carried out searches in Granada as well as in Valencia, accompanied by a further 244 checks in establishments in 31 provinces.

In the operation called Kaugumi, the Guardia Civil seized more than 100 marijuana plants, 12 kilos of hashish resin and more than five kilograms of hashish resin. At the same time, assets from the commission of the crimes were confiscated, including two vehicles, almost 20,000 euros in cash and another 51,000 euros blocked in a bank account already made available to the court, and various computer equipment.

The drug was packed in packets and jars of different sizes. The smallest, only a few centimeters long, contained five grams of buds, but larger ones of 10 and 20 grams were also distributed. The latter contained “two large buds, as if they were truffles,” says a source of the investigation, who says they were also packaged in jars “similarly small for jam or caviar” and others larger. The packaging, which had a “very colourful” appearance, featured words in English such as “Strawberry”, “Gelato Cake” and “Gum”, although these did not simulate well-known brands. Several labels indicated that the contents were “for ornamental use.”

According to investigative sources, after the intervention there at the end of June, Granada was one of the places where the greatest fears were expressed. At the time of production and sale in the province of Granada, everything was “well organized” on the property. They served the public in a two-story industrial warehouse. A reception was held on the first floor with dressed people attending to customers and showing some bottles to smell the buds. A distinctive feature of these producers and traders was that they treated the plants in such a way that they exhibited flavors such as vanilla, bubble gum or biscuit ice cream. That innocent look contrasted with the content, which was “very highly” toxic, says an agent involved with the operation.

The Civil Guard noted that the industrial building also housed a laboratory and a small indoor cannabis cultivation area, where the plants were classified according to the aroma they gave off. The organization had prepared part of the premises to expand its activities, which has not been disclosed since it was held. Sources of the inquiry stress that it is the first time in Spain that a conspiracy using the candy trick to distribute drugs has been terminated. The operation was coordinated by the Almería Provincial Prosecutor’s Office and the Court of First Instance and Instruction 2 of Berja (Almería).

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