Bridgetown.
Barbadians are planting more marjuana as the authorities clamp down on smuggling of the drug between Barbados and long standing source of the drug St Vincent.
Superintendent Graffton Phillips told Trakker News, the police were seeing a dramatic increase in marijuana plantations across the island.
He said last year lawmen seized 10.994 plants, this year they have seized 15.915 so far.
"It appears that a lot more marijuana plants are being cultivated, they seem to be planting a lot more than before ", Phillips said.
According to Phillips the local marijuana plants were being cultivated in canefields and bushy areas in rural Barbados.He said that lawmen had found species of marijuana plants from St Vincent and Jamaica being grown on the island.
Phillips stressed that consumtion of marjuana was very high in Barbados.
"Consumption is very high throughout Barbados, in all communities, very young people including school children are smoking the drug",Phillips said.
Yesterday the police seized 431 plants along with a bulletproof vest at Welch Village,St John.
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