Illegal cannabis workshop dismantled in Eixample with 63.7 kilos seized

The Urban Guard and the Mossos d'Esquadra have seized **63.7 kilos** of drugs in a premises in the **Dreta de l'Eixample** and arrested **four people**. The workshop was preparing cannabis-derived products for distribution.

The police have dismantled an illegal workshop in the Dreta de l'Eixample of Barcelona dedicated to preparing and distributing cannabis-derived products. The operation, in which 63.7 kilos of drugs were seized, was made public on Thursday, 15 October, although the intervention took place on 9 October.

It all started on 8 October, when a patrol from the Urban Guard observed a possible exchange between two individuals at the entrance of the establishment. A strong smell of marijuana was coming from the premises, prompting the officers to enter and check what was happening inside.

With the appropriate judicial authorization, the officers searched the premises. They found a workshop where cannabis-derived materials were being handled and produced, according to the same police sources. The four individuals under investigation were arrested.

Among the seized drugs were 30 kilos of marijuana, 28 kilos of hashish, four kilos of cannabis oil, and 1.7 kilos of CBD isolate. According to the investigation, the destination of these products could be various cannabis associations in the city.

The operation involved the Eixample Territorial Unit and the Barcelona Urban Guard Investigation Unit, along with the Public Health Investigation Regional Unit of the Mossos d'Esquadra. The detainees are accused of a crime against public health.

This action comes two days after the Barcelona City Council launched a campaign to curb the consumption of products made with semi-synthetic cannabis derivatives. The campaign includes the distribution of 300 posters and 5,000 leaflets in hostels and shelters, as well as a couple of videos.

The Hospital Clínic already warned last year about the increase in risky consumption of new psychoactive substances. It treated 24 poisonings resulting from the ingestion of sweets containing cannabis derivatives, cases that had doubled in just two years.