A crop containing thousands of cannabis plants has been discovered in far north Queensland.
After being tipped off, police found around 2900 cannabis plants growing in a field at Mount Amos, south of Cooktown, earlier this week.
A 33-year-old man was detained and charged with drugs offences, while another man fled the scene, Detective Ed Kinbacher told reporters in Cairns on Thursday.
Det Kinbacher said if harvested, the drugs would have been worth around $4 million.
“That is a significant crop, and probably one of the biggest for quite a number of years,” he said.
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