Sea weed: 28 kg of cannabis found floating in the sea off Cyprus coast

Well, there is good news for swimmers and bad news for certain illicit business people. A large amount of cannabis product was found floating in the sea near Peyia, Cyprus.

Police in Paphos, Cyprus reported that, in all, 28 kg of cannabis were pulled out of the water Thursday after a local swimming at Ayios Georgios saw something suspicious floating in the waves and called in a tip to the authorities. The cannabis, sealed in 21 plastic bags, was floating a very short distance from the coast.

 

 

Although recovered without difficultly, the drugs are believed to have been in the water for a considerable amount of time. The cannabis has since been sent to a lab for testing.

Police are currently trying to figure out the source of the package.

“Sea weed” is not an unknown phenomenon. Earlier this year, a shipment of illicit cannabis worth an estimated £14 million (roughly $24 million) washed up on a beach in Gibraltar after the smugglers’ boat was overturned near the shore.

Across the pond last September, giant bundles of weed washed up on a beach in Florida, where police struggled with locals scooping up the waterlogged harvest. A similar incident occurred on the opposite U.S. coast in Santa Barbara, Calif. last April, and nearly 200 kg of cannabis was found floating in the Adriatic Sea off the coast of Croatia.

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