Drug smuggler admits most of his cannabis couriers get caught
Drugs gangs are flooding the north of England with cheap cannabis grown overseas and sold to mimic slickly marketed, legal marijuana from the United States
Drugs gangs are flooding the north of England with cheap cannabis grown overseas and sold to mimic slickly marketed, legal marijuana from the United States, a BBC investigation has learned.
A thriving black market for "Cali weed" - high-potency strains originally cultivated in licensed dispensaries in California - has prompted an unprecedented wave of smuggling from dealers growing it in countries including Thailand.
One dealer boasted he made massive profits importing cannabis and described how he sent drug couriers from Thailand to the UK, even though he knew "most will get caught".
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