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Every time an event like this happens, or kidnapped victims are revealed being hidden in a house for the past 15 years, or a previously unknown serial-killer is finally caught, it makes me wonder how many of these events are still carrying on unnoticed.

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Modern slaves who are trapped in homes and forced to farm cannabis is a thing in England, so that's probably more common than you think over here.

Here's an article from 2008. http://www.newstatesman.com/law-and-reform/2008/11/cannabis-...

And another from 2015. http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN0LU00P20150226

Apparently prosecutors are more eager to prosecute slavery victims than actual slavers! How I wish I weren't surprised, but if they can stomach sending people to prison for growing pot, it's not such a step to sending people to prison for being forced to grow pot.

Non-mobile link for the Reuters article - http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/02/26/us-britain-slavery...

I stand corrected. Wow..

How do you relate cannabis plants with serial killers?

I wasn't intentionally equating all of those scenarios. The only relation that they have is that they are hidden from society and illegal. The point I was trying to make is that if large operations like this are taking place behind the curtains of society, surely there are more that will eventually be revealed (or never at all) in the future.

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