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22. May. 2013.
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Perhaps one of the most if not the most frequent miscreants
who appear at magistrates` courts are those convicted of possession of
cannabis classification of which has varied between B and C depending
on how tough a Home Secretary wishes to appear. In 2001 it was
reclassified from B to C. 2008 saw possession revert to Class B. A
report by the House of Commons Home Affairs Committee included the
following sentence in its report
of 03/12/2012; “We remain, however, of the view expressed in our
predecessors' Report, namely that cannabis be reclassified from class B
to C, and therefore regret the decision taken by the Government in
2008”.
With all that in mind the statistics
on cautions and convictions for possession of the weed over the last
twenty years might be of interest. Of course the politics of cannabis
and other illegal drugs supersede any intelligent debate which might be
undertaken. Until a future government has the cojones to accept the
argument that drug taking including alcoholism, is primarily a matter of
health as opposed to law then the 70% of criminality resulting from
these addictions will have little chance of being reduced. My
colleagues and I will have to continue imposing financial penalties for
simple possession.
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