High and dry: Washing line used as makeshift cannabis dryer after drug grower puts it up in his home

Cannabis was pegged to a washing line in man's living room

A 56-year-old man was arrested at a home in Shirley, West Midlands



While most tend to hang their clothes out to dry, one man used his washing line for something very different.



Pictures released by West Midlands Police show how a suspected drug grower pegged cannabis leaves to his washing line in his living room.



Officers made the surprising discovery at a property in Shirley, West Midlands, on April 19.

Hung out to get high: Photo shows a row of cannabis leaves which were pegged to a washing line

They had previously stopped the man outside his front door and found he was carrying cannabis.

When they had a look around his house they found more of the drug hanging on an improvised washing line.



More cannabis was being grown in a different room.



A 56-year-old man was arrested at the address on suspicion of producing a controlled drug and is currently on police bail as part of an investigation.

Sergeant Simon Raithby-Allin, from West Midlands Police, said: 'While the use of the washing line may seem basic the set-up itself was quite sophisticated.

'Electricity at the address has been bypassed and plants at different stages of growth were being prepared.