A huge cannabis farm has been uncovered in a residential street, which has left the whole road 'smelling of weed'.
Police arrived at Chester Street in Accrington just after 12pm on Wednesday after receiving reports that a number of cannabis plants had been uncovered in a house.
According to eye witnesses, the police turned up after the house had been ransacked, with people making off with plants and other pararphernalia.
One witness said: "The whole street smells of weed.
"Apparently there was over 100 plants and people were just taking whatever they saw."
A spokesperson for the police said: "We were called at 7.20am on Wednesday after someone had been walking on the street and had come across some cannabis on the ground.
"It looks like there's been a door smashed at a nearby property."Police have attended and entered the house and found what looks to be cannabis inside."
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