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Written by Cherelle Jackson   
Wednesday, 26 March 2008




Marijuana plants burning as the assistant Commissioner of Police Papalii Li'o Masepa'u looks on

Marijuana, or extracts from the plant cannabis sativa confiscated by Police over the last few months were burnt yesterday behind the Police Headquarters.
The collection of marijuana, still in their concealed forms and the state in which they were confiscated were burnt complete with bags, bottles, plastic containers and envelopes by members of the Samoan Police force yesterday.
Assistant Police Commissioner Papalii Lio T Masipa’u said the burning of marijuana is the final stage of the work by Police in narcotics cases.
“Naturally we begin with the investigation and then the case goes through the judicial system and now finally the destroying of the narcotics,” he said yesterday.
Police gathered, along with members of the media to witness the burning which took not more than ten minutes in total.
The items burnt yesterday included pre rolled joints, cannabis branches, mixed leaves and a few other bits and pieces of concealed marijuana.
One of the better concealed items were foil rolled marijuana joints, close to fifty all tightly squeezed into a coffee creamer plastic container.
Lio said the bulk of yesterdays bon fire were mainly confiscated from the Apia town area.
Some of the articles were found from the Tafaigata drug bust earlier this year.
“As you can see we are burning them in the state we got them,” he said.
What was intriguing according to Lio is that the methods in which the narcotics criminals are concealing marijuana have become quite advanced.
“As you can see their selling and concealing techniques have become quite sophisticated, which is a cause for concern,” the Assistant Commission said.
Police in recent months have become vigilant in their efforts to crack down of drug crimes in Samoa.






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written by lomi, March 28, 2008
Ok..lets cut in on this subject. There's rumor of several marijuana grows in Samoa, who's in charge and looking into this? What happened to the marijuana raid that I heard officers were shot at and turned back without further action? First of all, the weapons I heard officers took were 22. caliber rifles and 12 ga. shotguns (Birdshot). Wow! 22 long rifles are for rabbits and birdshots are for duck hunting. Birdshots, you got to be kidding me! Samoa have to be agitated if oru officers are using this to serve and protect them. These criminals aren't shooting 22 rifles. We've already seen the cache of weapons our police found and so quick to show the media how to destroy them. So..I'm sure more have gone thru.

Yeah..if our government is concerned about getting rid of our drug problem then do it right. If they're too poor and lack funds to better equip our officers then use the ones confiscated. They are so fast to show the public "look at at what we did" deal and then destroy them, at the same time they can't go up against home grown criminals with more advanced weapons.

The pictiure of these little bags of confiscated marijuana which took less than 10 mins. to burn is ridiculous. You can get pounds of them just up the hill and then scream "look at what we got". That would be good news. I love police officers and the great job they do but lets get real.

Eventhough, Good job...
no ig deal
written by mike, May 05, 2008
i lived in samoa. i was in that program pardise cove. 14 months i was there. bud is not a big deal. worry about coke herion and tweak. that lifestyle is meant to get high

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