Ex-Scotland Yard detective declares the war on drugs will 'never be won' after GB News exposes Albanian gang-run cannabis farms

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Ex-Scotland Yard detective declares the war on drugs will 'never be won' after GB News exposes Albanian gang-run cannabis farms.

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Peter Bleksley has declared that the "war on drugs" in Britain one that "simply cannot and will not ever be won" after an exclusive exposé by GB News on gang-run cannabis farms.Speaking to GB News, the former Scotland Yard detective reacted to the "shocking" footage of gangs advertising on social media for a "one-stop shop" to construct the illegal grows.The People's Channel has exclusively obtained the footage, showing the criminal gangs posing as legitimate construction teams, arriving with vans full of cannabis seedlings as well as hydroponic kits and heat lamps.Within hours of arriving at residential addresses across Britain, the squads can convert whole rooms into cannabis nurseries.

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