Middle Class Cannabis Farms

Sep 25, 2011 · 48m 27s
Middle Class Cannabis Farms
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Adrian Goldberg finds that cannabis farming is increasingly a suburban phenomenon. He interviews a professional woman from a leafy village in the North West of England who is growing cannabis...

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Adrian Goldberg finds that cannabis farming is increasingly a suburban phenomenon.



He interviews a professional woman from a leafy village in the North West of England who is growing cannabis in her spare room, and a drug dealer from the West Midlands who has a number of middle-class professionals letting their spare room to him for a share of his cannabis-farming profits.



They tell him that cannabis growers now prefer to rent rooms from willing landlords - rather than take over whole houses - because it is easier to avoid police detection.



Adrian also speaks to DCI Martin Hurcomb from West Midlands Police about the changing nature of cannabis farming and what the authorities are doing about it.



Plus, we reveal the high-street shop that's been selling customers a camcorder they didn't want. It says the camera was a better model than the one advertised, but was it really?



And we hear the inside story of BBC Newsnight's investigation into international boxing.



If you have a story for the 5 live Investigates team, email goldberg@bbc.co.uk.
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