Bridgetown.
Over 2000 marijuana plants have been dug up by policemen across rural areas of Barbados in the past three weeks.
Head of Royal Barbados Police Force's Drug Squad, Superintendent Grafton Phillips says lawmen will be cracking down on marijuana growers with increase raids and surveillance.
"There is a definite increase in the planting of cannabis by Barbadians in recent times, based on the increase of the volume of plants that we have dug up, it is a very serious problem and we are quite concern about it spreading", Phillips told Trakker News.
Philllips said intelligence by gathered by the police showed that cannabis were being planted islandwide and not being concentrated in any parish.
"There are no specific areas, we have found marijuana being grown across the length and breath of the island. Barbados is a very small but there are still many uncultivated areas away from the public where the drug can be grown. We will continue to target these areas" says Phillips.
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