During a search of the house and yard of a 25-year-old resident of the village of Pokotylivka, operatives of the Kharkov police department found 747 cannabis bushes and about 35 grams of "plant matter in dried and crushed condition".

According to the police, the landlord admitted that he was engaged in growing narcotic plants for their own needs..

"Seized to research. Investigator opened criminal proceedings in hours. 2 st. 309 (illegal production, manufacture, acquisition, storage, transportation or shipment of narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances or their analogues without the purpose of sale) and h. 2 st. 310 (sowing or growing poppy or cannabis sleeping pills) of the Criminal Code of Ukraine. A man faces up to 7 years in prison ", - said the police.