Police in Barbuda seized over seven pounds of Cannabis Hashish on the sister isle on Friday.
A total of twelve packages with the tarry substance were picked up offshore Weirs Beach and handed over to the Narcotics Department.The substance weighed 7 ½ pounds and has an estimated street value of EC$30,000.
Hashish is a derivative of the cannabis plant, after the plant goes through a compression processing to extract the reisn, mostly from the flower buds of the female plant. It is mostly consumed by smoking.
Further investgations are ongoing into the matter.
