The son of two former police officers has been jailed for dealing ecstasy from his student accommodation.

Business student Alex Wardle, originally of Bunny Lane, Keyworth, was caught with large amounts of the party drug at his university accommodation in Beech Grove, west Hull.

Hull Crown Court heard the 22-year- old's drug dealing first came to light in November last year, when he was stopped by police driving a van in the city centre.

Prosecutor Stephen Robinson said: "Officers noted a strong smell of cannabis and it was clear the defendant had been smoking the drug."

Wardle was searched and police found two clear bags containing ecstasy tucked into his underpants.

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British businessman Richard Branson has said the decriminalisation of drugs in Ireland would lead to a sea change in public attitudes on a similar scale as that which followed the same sex-marriage referendum.

Mr Branson, speaking at an event organised by the Citywide Drugs Crisis Campaign in Dublin at the weekend, said the abolition of criminal penalties for drugs offences would become a “non-issue” for the public once it takes place.

POLICE walked into a "fog" of cannabis smoke when they went to a Herefordshire flat where two men were dealing drugs, a court was told.

Joe Green, aged 23, and David Cree, 22, were living in Leominster with not a lot to do and smoking far too much cannabis, Worcester Crown Court heard.

Police went to Green's flat in Waterworks Lane on November 10 last year and saw people coming and going, Paul Whitfield, prosecuting, said. They knocked and Cree opened the door.

"They were met by a fog of cannabis smoke," Mr Whitfield said. "It was obvious what was going on."

United Kingdom —  The U.K. government recently issued a woeful response to a petition calling for the legalisation of cannabis. The crushing response to the 200,000 strong petition calling for the legalization of the production, sale, and use of cannabis was published on the petition website on August 25th.

Despite receiving twice the number of signatures required for the issue to be considered for Parliamentary debate, the government’s response appears to have stifled the debate before it even begun, firmly closing the door on legalization.

A dad told a judge "you won't see me again" after he spared him jail for growing up to £23,000 worth of cannabis.

Scott Radford, 35, made his gratitude known in court after he faced prison for cultivating the Class B drug in his attic.

Police unearthed 56 plants when they searched his home, Nottingham Crown Court heard on Friday, September 4.

His growing techniques resulted in an mini drug dealing enterprise to a limit number of regular customers.

But despite his success cultivating the plant, his accountancy skills were not up to scratch.

He was owed more than £9,000 for cannabis on credit.

Officers arrest 2 for possession of cannabis with intent to supply. Ruined someone's day! http://t.co/dthkpDqnhz

Police have seized a bucket of cannabis from a couple in North Yorkshire. Officers from North Yorkshire Police stopped a silver Audi at Gate Helmsley and found the cannabis in a bucket in the boot.

The two occupants of the car, a 20-year-old man and a 24-year-old woman, both from East Yorkshire, were arrested on suspicion of possession with intent to supply cannabis.

Both have been released on bail pending further enquiries.

Police said they would “respond appropriately” after a campaign group announced plans to hold a picnic for cannabis users in a Leeds park.

Members of the Leeds Cannabis Social Club were due to gather on Saturday, September 5, at Hyde Park in what they called a peaceful “act of civil disobedience”.

The group is one of several across the country that are campaigning for changes to drug laws.

A spokesman said: “We think that the time police are made to spend dealing with cannabis consumers is a waste of their valuable time and money and a waste of the tax payers money.

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Jonathan Falkus was seen on the Channel 5 programme about so-called nightmare neighbours the day after he appeared in court charged with intending to supply cannabis

The owner of a now closed 'cannabis café' in Guildford has been given a suspended prison sentence for drugs offences, in the same week he appeared on a TV show abouttroublesome neighbours.

Jonathan Falkus appeared at Guildford Crown Court on Tuesday (September 1) charged with intending to supply the class B drug cannabis.