Officials say most of the couriers, who can be paid up to £10,000, are arriving from countries which have legalised cannabis for personal use and are allowing cultivation.
Hundreds of cannabis couriers have been caught trying to smuggle suitcases full of the drug through British airports. They are being duped by traffickers into thinking the UK authorities are soft on cannabis and will let them off with a fine, according to the National Crime Agency. A man who landed from Los Angeles with 158 kilos of the Class-B drug - with a street value of £1m - in his and his children's bags was jailed for more than three years in July.
'Actually, the THC content is relatively similar between UK grown and legally grown cannabis. I think the drug traffickers are just good at marketing it in the UK.' Canadian Chelsea Allingham, 40, arrived at Heathrow from Toronto in May with two suitcases full of cannabis and had reached the bar of her hotel when NCA officers walked up and arrested her in handcuffs.
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