German customs officers seize enough cannabis seeds to cover 336 soccer fields

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German customs officers checking cargo at the Cologne Bonn Airport have apparently achieved a new record for the country, seizing 2.3 million cannabis seeds said to have a street value of €2.3 billion ($3.5 billion). In March, customs staff found about 147,000 cannabis seeds in freight shipments and, in March, they reported having intercepted almost 70,000 seeds in 58,000 letters from the Netherlands since the beginning of the year. Here's why that's a big deal The four, 50-kilogram containers full of cannabis seeds were en route from the U.S. to Lithuania when the plane touched down in Cologne and airport customs staff there checked things out. South African entrepreneur drops nearly $20k on 20 cannabis seeds Canadians are receiving mysterious seeds in the mail, but need to take heed Seeds are coming to the Ontario Cannabis Store. It’s certainly not the first time the airport has proved a stop for illegal weed seeds.

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German customs officers checking cargo at the Cologne Bonn Airport have apparently achieved a new record for the country, seizing 2.3 million cannabis seeds said to have a street value of €2.3 billion ($3.5 billion).

The discovery was actually made way back on May 30, but only revealed this week because of ongoing investigations spurred by the record find.

“The German customs authorities have never found cannabis seeds of this magnitude,” Jens Ahland, a spokesperson for the main customs office in Cologne, says in a translated press release from the German customs agency,...

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