This Thurday 8 pm

Noticed at Tue, 18 Dec 2007 16:01:10 +0000: Rosie Webster informed us:


> This Thurday 8 pm

The Cannabis Trade
BBC Radio 4 FM
Thu 20 Dec, 20:00 - 20:30  30 mins
	  		 
1/2. Winifred Robinson tracks the movement of cannabis, from the
Vietnamese operators illegally growing massive quantities in Britain to
the boarding schools where heads claim it is destroying young lives.

The series features unique access to police raids and extraordinary
interviews with Vietnamese operators who have moved into the UK market and
now control a vast slice of it.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/cgi-perl/whatson/prog_parse.cgi?FILENAME=20071220/20071220_2000_49700_59113_30

-- 
Dr John Watson
Baker Street

The Cannabis Trade, Radio 4, 8pm

Can we still get a lid on cannabis after politicians took the
controversial decision to reclassify the drug as a less harmful Class C
offender? The short answer in this detailed two-part documentary seems to
be no, and the implications are disturbing. Head teachers, among them
Anthony Seldon of Wellington College, believes the drug is wrecking lives
in boarding schools as well as in council estates, across classes and
communities. Worse, most cannabis consumed in the UK is grown on our
shores in an industry often controlled by Vietnamese cultivators. With the
police on their tail in Derby and Liverpool, the programme takes us to the
heart of this newly thriving business, in the process finding a child
“gardener” – an exploited underage worker brought to England and
living among hundreds of cannabis plants.

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/tv_and_radio/article3075022.ece


-- 
Dr John Watson
Baker Street