CAMP DANGWA, Benguet – Marijuana plants worth P11 million were uprooted and burned in Kalinga and five drug personalities were arrested from May 7 to 13, the Police Regional Office-Cordillera said Tuesday, May 16. Police Brig. Gen. David Peredo Jr., PRO-Cordillera chief, said 55,000 fully...
House Senior Deputy Speaker and Pampanga 2nd district Rep. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo (left), and Davao del Norte 1st district Rep. Pantaleon Alvarez (Facebook) Two former House Speakers are now seeking the legalization of medical cannabis or marijuana in the current 19th Congress. This, after Senior...
BACOLOD CITY – A Grade 11 student was arrested after he was caught with dried marijuana leaves inside his classroom at Rafael B. Lacson Memorial High School in Barangay 12, Talisay City, Negros Occidental on Wednesday, May 10. THE suspected dried marijuana leaves and an improvised pipe...
BACOLOD CITY – A 52-year-old man who was the subject of a buy-bust operation for selling shabu was also found to have some marijuana plants in his backyard at Hacienda Lonoy, Barangay Hawaiian, Silay City, Negros Occidental on Thursday, May 11. SOME suspected marijuana plants were discovered by...
CAMP RAFAEL C. RODRIGUEZ, Butuan City – The Police Regional Office-13 seized suspected shabu and marijuana worth P1.8 million in the campaign against illegal drugs in the Caraga region last month. PRO-13 Director Police Brig. Gen. Pablo G. Labra II said 73 drug suspects were arrested from April 1...
CAMP FLORENDO, La Union – Authorities destroyed marijuana worth P9.7 million in separate eradication operations in Pangasinan, La Union, and Ilocos Sur last month. Police uprooted 140 fully grown marijuana plants valued at P28,000 in a plantation in Barangay Tobuan, Labrador, Pangasinan on...
LA TRINIDAD, Benguet – Authorities discovered and destroyed marijuana plants worth P26 million from April 23 to 29 in Benguet and Kalinga. A total of 70, 020 fully-grown marijuana plants and 100, 000 grams of dried marijuana leaves and fruiting tops from 20 plantations were burned onsite...
BACOLOD CITY – Police arrested two friends and seized illegal drugs worth P116,200 in a buy-bust operation in Purok Villa Villeta, Barangay Estefania here on Sunday, April 30. Suspects were identified as Jefferson Claves, 26, and Earl Jan Ansagay, 22, residents of Barangay Estefania. They yielded...
Senator Robinhood "Robin" C. Padilla flew to Israel Saturday night to attend a series of conferences on the compassionate use of medical cannabis (marijuana) - and how to apply Israel's experience to the Philippines. Padilla, who last year filed Senate Bill 230 allowing the medical use of cannabis,...
CAMP DANGWA, Benguet – Police destroyed marijuana plants worth P4.5 million in Tinglayan, Kalinga, on Thursday, April 27. The Kalinga Police Provincial Office (PPO) under the Police Regional Office-Cordillera and the 141st Special Action Company of the Philippine National Police-Special...
CEBU CITY – A farmer was arrested after he was caught allegedly tending to marijuana plants in a mountainous barangay in Toledo City, Cebu. Demetrio Laspoña Baculi, 57, was also caught possessing an unlicensed .45 caliber pistol during the arrest past 2 p.m. on Friday, April 28, police...
BAGUIO CITY – About P6,840,000 worth of marijuana were recovered from two drug suspects during a follow-up operation conducted by Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA)-Bulacan agents and local police along Kennon Road, Barangay Camp 7 here on Wednesday, April. 26. The suspects were...
