About 200 meters from a farmhouse located in the middle of a forest there were 290 regular flowerpots with marijuana plants up to a meter high, police reported. The pot in the pots was skillfully hidden beneath regular grass.
The 58-year-old owner of the farmhouse told police he did not know anything about growing marijuana. He said he gave the farmhouse to his son, and that it began to die out after the son was arrested in Sweden.
"Although marijuana does not grow well here in Estonia in the outdoors, the last two weeks were rather hot, and apparently that is why the owner took the plants outside," said Indrek Raudjalg, a spokesman for the Estonian police department.
As the amount of drug raw material seized was rather significant, the criminal police are considering a special investigation, added Raudjalg.
The street price for a gram of marijuana in Estonia is between 100 kroons and 150 kroons.
Rapla county has recently become known to Estonian police as a major source for the local drug industry. According to police, methamphetamine and amphetamine laboratories and storage facilities for liquid amphetamine were uncovered there in February, April and June this year.
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