Great, you're listening, so you've downloaded, brilliant. I'm Linda Presley and this

week's assignment comes from Albania. Now this wasn't my idea. It was Albania, Albania, I dear. Albania is one of the BBC's veteran producers,

also an Albanian.

And she came to us and said,

we've got to go to Albania and do the cannabis story.

Yes, and it's sort of, I thought about it when I was on holidays at home over summer.

This was the talk of town, cannabis was the talk of town and I said, well hold on a, we have got to investigate this and now there's another metal shutter.

Hmm, that smell.

It's um kind of strong isn't it?

A shula I should have used to messier. kind of strong isn't it? That's BBC World Service producer albana Kassapi,

our translator and guide throughout this week's assignment from Albania.

And that sweet hey aroma is unmistakable.

Right so we're just about used to the smell now. It's absolutely overpowering.

So how much cannabis is here, Commander?

60 tons.

Wow. Commander Saibizi of the Albanian police shows us around this secret secure location.

All 60 tons of cannabis here, evidence in ongoing court cases.

This is the only place in the whole of the country where everything that is confiscated, drug-related, everything comes to this place

comes to this place.

There are huge great metal shelves and on each of these

stacked high, it's right to the ceiling with cannabis that's put into these large

police bags and this whole warehouse that's divided into geographical areas right albana

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