UK Police Campaign On Cannabis Farms Is A Confidence Trick

The Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO) has launched yet another propaganda campaign against people who grow cannabis. As usual this consists of fact free scaremongering and a complete distortion of the facts and evidence about the possible harms. Once again, Detective Chief Superintendent Bill Jephson, National Policing Lead for Cannabis-related Crime, is in charge of delivering a message that seeks to frighten the public with myth, misinformation and manipulation of data.

DCS Jephson claims that in the UK "increasingly potent and dangerous cannabis...can have lasting physical and mental health effects on users". Meanwhile in 23 US states, Canada, Israel and every country in Europe apart from UK, France and Ireland, the story is completely different. In these enlightened and progressive jurisdictions, the cannabis market has been regulated and the result has been falling crime, falling accident and suicide rates, lower alcohol consumption, fewer painkiller overdoses, less use by adolescents,...

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