Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0100Fri, 24 Jul 2026 03:32:14 +0200Police chose “wrong weapon” in raids on marijuana cultivation suppliers, says owner Michal Otipkahttps://english.radio.cz/police-chose-wrong-weapon-raids-marijuana-cultivation-suppliers-says-owner-8539906© 2026 Radio Prague International In November, the Czech police’s drugs unit raided dozens of “grow shops”, businesses that sell products necessary for the cultivation of marijuana. The police justified the large-scale confiscation of goods on the grounds that a court had ruled it was illegal for the shops to offer in one place everything needed to grow the drug, from seeds to literature. This is disputed by the grow shop owners, including my guest today, Michal Otipka, who runs four in Prague. Before we got on to the legal niceties, I asked Otipka how he’d first got into the business. encr@radio.cz (Cesky Rozhlas)webmaster@radio.cz (CRo Webmaster) https://english.radio.cz/sites/default/files/images/konopi3.jpg?timestamp=1591185126 Police chose “wrong weapon” in raids on marijuana cultivation suppliers, says owner Michal Otipka https://english.radio.cz/police-chose-wrong-weapon-raids-marijuana-cultivation-suppliers-says-owner-8539906 Radio Prague International Radio Prague International radio.prague.int@gmail.com clean 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9