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RELAXING laws on minor drugs offences would allow courts to spend more time on the prosecution of higher-level crimes according to a Dorking barrister.
Rio Pahlavanpour, who lives in Dorking and prosecutes cases at Redhill Magistrates' Court, believes more progressive drugs laws would give courts the time to focus on more serious cases such as domestic violence.
Mr Pahlavanpour suggests that following the example set by many US states and has put his concerns in a letter to Mole Valley MP Sir Paul Beresford.
Recreational use of cannabis is legal in four US states and medical use in 23 states.
Mr Pahlavanpour says it is embarrassing that the UK has fallen behind on this issue.
He told the Advertiser: "Of course there are harms that this drug causes, if it is taken from a young age of course it is going to cause damage.
"But we...
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