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Home 🌿 Marijuana Politics 🌿 UK: Cannabis Prohibition Has Gone To Pot: Users Of Plant Given Green Light 🌿UK: Cannabis Prohibition Has Gone To Pot: Users Of Plant Given Green Light
In a shock move that many have described as cannabis pseudo-decriminalisation, Durham Police have announced that they will only prosecute individuals possessing or growing the class-B drug if they are ‘blatant’.
The policy has come soon after comments by the force’s Chief Constable, Mike Barton, who argued that investigating drug users is a “waste of police time”.
He believes that hard drugs such as heroin and cocaine should be decriminalised. His reasoning being that if the trade was regulated the users could get their supply through the NHS thus eliminating the need for them to get involved in criminality.
Despite the new relaxed approach towards stoners, the force has stated that they will still proactively prosecute large-scale grows along with other criminal acts that surround the illicit trade.
The plan was hashed out (sorry) by Police and Crime Commissioner, Ron Hogg, who said that anyone caught growing or possessing a...
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