Drug dealer caught after police discover stoned-looking SELFIE he took in front of his cannabis factory

This is the moment a dopey drug dealer sealed his fate after taking an incriminating selfie in front of his cannabis stash.  

The photo of a spaced-out Richard Edmunds, 25, giving the thumbs up for the camera was released after he admitted drugs charges in court.

The picture in which he inadvertently traps himself was one of several found by police showing off the stash of Edmunds and his housemate Joshua Langmead, alongside incriminating messages on six different mobile phones.

The Liberal Democrat spokesperson for Home Affairs, Baroness Hamwee, argues that the Government missed an opportunity to reclassify cannabis for medical purposes as part of the Psychoactive Substances Bill.

It’s quite usual for Bills to attract amendments which are wide of the Government’s intentions.  In the Lords we have been dealing with the Psychoactive Substances Bill, which imposes a blanket ban on all “legal highs” (or attempts to do so – history does not show that prohibition works, rather that it pushes the market underground and towards sometimes more harmful substances), and the Liberal Democrats saw the Bill as an opportunity to raise the use of cannabis for medicinal purposes.

Durham Police and Crime Commissioner Ron Hogg says the force will not proactively target small scale cannabis producers who are growing for their own use

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Since the spring of 2011, through Facebook and Twitter, CLEAR has provided a newsfeed on cannabis and drugs policy that informs and energises the campaign.

The CLEAR Daily News, available on email subscription here, summarises all of each day’s posts on social media. It provides a quick way to catch up and a record of events across the world in the campaign for cannabis law reform and a more intelligent, evidence-based approach to drugs policy.

Cannabis Social Clubs have appeared in European countries to offer cannabis consumers and medical cannabis patients a safer alternative and a solution to the problems that prohibition causes in society. 

Part of the reason the UK Cannabis Social Clubs exists is to inform existing consumers of the CSC model and it’s benefits over the current “free-for-all” market that has flourished under prohibition. The results of this are drastically inflated prices, unacceptable quality such as contamination, mould, under weight deals, early harvested product and no protection for those that are vulnerable such as the young. Dealers don’t ask for ID but most (not all) will happily take a teenagers money.

Something doesn’t look right about these flowerbeds.

It’s probably the fact that someone has planted cannabis plants in them – and they’re standing out like a sore thumb.

The plants were spotted in the sleepy Hertfordshire town of Welwyn Garden City, and were put there by a secretive group called the Welwyn Garden City Cannabis Club.

Speaking to the Welwyn Hatfield Times, one of the group explained that the stunt aimed to highlight the benefits that cannabis plants can offer.

Sophisticated drug factories are harvesting cannabis plants worth millions of pounds across West Yorkshire.

Organised gangs are using derelict buildings and houses to produce the class B drug on an industrial scale.

Health chiefs have issued a warning over deadly fake cannabis being sold and taken in Plymouth and a rise in the number of people being hospitalised.

RISE Recovery and Integration Service has issued a warning to people in Plymouth about an increase in people being harmed by using synthetic cannabis.

Plymouth man Jordan Hawthorne, 21, recebntly told The herald how fake cannabis sold under the name Vertex left him in a coma fighting for his life for five days, and has left him permanently injured.

The drug and alcohol charity has received alerts from Public Health England about the increase in incidents relating to using the highly dangerous substance often referred to as Spice.

Families of drugs abuse victims are calling on David Cameron to radically review drugs laws as the House of Lords moves to debate the controversial Psychoactive Substances Bill.

On Tuesday a group of bereaved families delivered a letter to Downing Street demanding reform of UK drug laws.

The Anyone's Child campaign is calling for legal regulation of drugs, rather than outright banning, with a vision that drugs would be controlled by medical professionals rather than criminals.

Cara Lavan lost her partner Jake Coe to drugs and she believes that a change in the law could have saved his life.