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Sept 2022
The Harrogate district is still the place in North Yorkshire with the highest number of cannabis farms, data from North Yorkshire Police has revealed.
A Freedom of Information (FOI) request showed that between 2016 and 2021, nine major farms with more than 25 plants were discovered in the Harrogate district.
That was almost double the amount found in the Selby district, which was the next highest with five.
This marked a continuation of a trend highlighted two years when an FOI request from the Stray Ferret found that the Harrogate district also had the highest number of cannabis farms then.
Between 2017 and 2020, officers made 22 arrests of people involved with cannabis farms in North Yorkshire.
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