P1-M marijuana burned in Benguet, Kalinga towns

LA TRINIDAD, Benguet – Police recently uprooted and burned  P1,050,760 worth of marijuana plants in Benguet and Kalinga, the regional police office here at Camp Dangwa bared.

In Tacadang, Kibungan, Benguet   on Oct. 21 and 22, some 4,394 seedlings and 375 fully grown marijuana plants worth P250,760 were uprooted in a plantation.

In Tinglayan, Kalinga, some 4,000 fully grown marijuana plants worth P800,000 were uprooted in Barangay Butbut Proper on Oct. 26, 2019. Police and narcotics agents discovered the  marijuana plants also in a plantation.

No marijuana cultivator was arrested in the operations while all illegal plants were burned at the sites.

“The eradication drives does not guarantee the elimination of marijuana plants in such Cordillera areas because some residents still cultivate marijuana as additional source of income, said

Cordillera police director Brig. Gen Israel Ephraim Dickson.

He urged marijuana planters to stop producing marijuana and to instead join livelihood projects which local government units and non-government organizations offer.