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An official of the Police Regional Office Cordillera (PROCOR) bared that anti-illegal drugs operatives had confiscated and destroyed marijuana plants and seedlings amounting to P20.49 million.<\/p>\n
PROCOR information officer, Maj. Carolina Lacuata reported that these plants were confiscated from several police operations in different areas in the region from September 23 to 27.<\/p>\n
On September 23, simultaneous operations in Benguet and Kalinga yielded a total of P612,000 worth of marijuana seedlings and fully grown plants.<\/p>\n
The next day in Badeo, Kibungan, P200,000 worth of fully grown marijuana plants were destroyed by operatives.<\/p>\n
On the third day, a total of 1.28 kilograms of hashish covered with milled coffee valued at P281,000 was intercepted when it was coursed through a private courier firm in Bontoc, Mountain Province.<\/p>\n
Then on September 25 to 27, “Oplan Green pearl Delta 09-2019\u201d was implemented which resulted in the destruction of fully grown marijuana plants and dried leaves valued at P19.3 million.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, another batch of 100 drug dependents in Baguio City are now undergoing a community-based, two-phase rehabilitation program being run by a multi-sectoral group composed of the local government, police and faith-based organizations.<\/p>\n
Cora Lee Dulnuan of the City Social Welfare and Development bared that the first phase runs for three months and will focus on the subject\u2019s personality and faith.<\/p>\n
\u201cAftercare\u201d is the second phase that also runs for three months and tackles relapse prevention, livelihood assistance, peer support and monitoring of progress.<\/p>\n
So far, 503 drug surrenderers out of the total of 2,554 have completed the rehabilitation program since 2016.\u00a0 (<\/em><\/strong>Jojo Mangahis)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" P20.49 million worth of marijuana plants and seedlings were confiscated and destroyed recently by the Cordillera PNP after a series of anti illegal drugs operations in the region.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5284,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"twitterCardType":"","cardImageID":0,"cardImage":"","cardTitle":"","cardDesc":"","cardImageAlt":"","cardPlayer":"","cardPlayerWidth":0,"cardPlayerHeight":0,"cardPlayerStream":"","cardPlayerCodec":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[755,234,1297,196,198],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/pressone.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/marijuana-police-.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressone.ph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5257"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressone.ph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressone.ph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressone.ph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressone.ph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pressone.ph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5257\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressone.ph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressone.ph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressone.ph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressone.ph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}