Three people have been charged after police discovered a £100,000 factory making cannabis sweets.

Officers carried out a drug warrant at an address on High Street in Rishton last month where they found a large amount of both cannabis and cannabis edible sweets, worth more than £100k.

Yesterday (Wednesday, June 29), police arrested three people who have now been charged.

Daniel Smedley, 32, of Walmsley Street, Rishton, Kristen Hall, 28, of Spring Street, Rishton and Richie Gardiner, 28, of Hermitage Street, Rishton, are all charged with being concerned in the production of cannabis and are due to appear before Blackburn Magistrates’ Court today (Thursday, June 30th)

A fourth person – Leonard Perkins, 31, of no fixed address, was earlier charged with being concerned in the production of cannabis.

A spokesperson for the police said: “You can be confident that we will act on the information you provide, take drugs off the streets and prosecute those suspected of supplying them.”

Cannabis edibles are made to look like sweets and are attractive to youngsters but they can contain high levels of THC.