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Vietnamese indoor cannabis cultivation
Vietnamese organized crime groups are gaining a reputation as specialists in cannabis cultivation,
particularly indoor cultivation. Vietnamese cannabis farms have been detected in Australia, Canada, the
Czech Republic, Germany, Poland, the United Kingdom and the United States. The situation in the United
Kingdom has been particularly well documented with police raiding an average of 500 cannabis farms per
month in 2010. Although many of these were controlled by British criminal organizations, Vietnamese
gardeners were often preferred over local labour.19
Research suggests that migrants are encouraged to work in cannabis farms as a way of rapidly paying off the
debts accumulated through the process of smuggling.20 Exploitation and trafficking in persons, however,
can occur. In 2010, the UK’s Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre identified 58 Vietnamese
children who were allegedly trafficked, and of these, 39 were working on cannabis farms
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