Over P5M cannabis goes up in smoke in Benguet, Kalinga

Art Dumlao — December 12, 2024

Over P5M cannabis goes up in smoke in Benguet, Kalinga

La Trinidad, Benguet (December 11, 2024) -- Dedicated anti-narcotics operatives of the Cordillera police command torched down P5,210,000.00 worth of marijuana in a series of marijuana eradication operations in Benguet and Kalinga provinces on Tuesday.



According to Cordillera police director Brig. Gen. David K. Peredo, 9,890 pieces of fully grown marijuana plants (FGMJP), 800 marijuana seedlings, and 20,000 grams of dried marijuana stalks, leaves, and fruiting tops reaching P4,410,000.00 were discovered in remote hinterland barangays Kayapa in Bakun and Tacadang in Kibungan, both in Benguet.


While policemen joined by PDEA-Cordillera operatives also swooped down on 4,000 pieces of harvestable marijuana shrubs valued at P800,000.00 in remote barangay Ngibat, in Tinglayan, Kalinga on that same day.


Peredo assured that all the discovered marijuana shrubs were uprooted and burned onsite.


He added that operatives are into deep probing other marijuana plantation sites elsewhere in the highland Cordillera region with the promise to apprehend those responsible behind the illicit cannabis farming.

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