MJ should be nipped from the bud – C/PNP

ERADICATION of marijuana in the country should start from the seeds.

Philippine National Police (PNP) chief General Camilo Pancratius Cascolan in his visit to Baguio

City and the Police Regional Office Cordillera (PROCOR) reiterated that marijuana plants should be nipped early to prevent seedlings from growing.

“Marijuana plants now are being uprooted continuously in their infancy stage

to prevent from producing seeds. Through maintaining and sustaining our operations against marijuana, we will continue to patrol these areas and if there are still marijuana plantations, these should be eradicated and destroyed,” Cascolan said.

The Chief PNP is looking for ways on how to identify and arrest marijuana cultivators.

“In some cases, it’s is the barangays that earn from this and just like what we are doing here right now, if there are marijuana that were forcefully planted, we are trying to look at a lot of suspects which is why we are enjoining everyone to provide us with information for us to be able to identify the cultivators or the producers of marijuana.

Most of those planted in the mountains are located in public lands but if they are located in other areas, we will evaluate and review if the land has a title and the name of the lot owner is identified, it is much better,” Cascolan stated.

Cascolan also reiterated that marijuana cultivation in the Cordillera Administrative Region( CAR) have never been a part of the region’s culture.

“Marijuana is grass which grows anywhere and it is not being cultivated by Cordilleran’s because Cordilleran’s never do that. It’s just so happen that it’s there and being used which is why others saw this, actually this is a herbal plant but because of the effects of this, we need to remove and eradicate this from our communities,” Cascolan added.