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Home 🌿 Recreational Marijuana News 🌿 Durham takes us one small step towards a sensible policy on drugs 🌿Durham takes us one small step towards a sensible policy on drugs
And the NHS could do with a dose of common sense
New figures show that more than a million people aged between 16 and 24 used cannabis in the past year. Now, those in the North-east who keep pot plants – the hallucinogenic kind rather than a Busy Lizzie – no longer fear a knock on their door and a trip to the police station.
Durham’s force is the first to announce that local users can grow drugs for personal consumption without fear of prosecution. This historic decision was taken by police and crime commissioner Ron Hogg, a former assistant chief constable, who has spent years engaged in the “war” on drugs; a futile battle that can never be won by forces already stretched by cuts, a huge increase in illegal online activity and a renewed focus on sexual offences against the young.
Hogg wants his decision to “prompt a...
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