Cannabis plants recovered following Burnham drugs raid (From This is The West Country)
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Cannabis plants recovered following Burnham drugs raid
4:08pm Monday 3rd December 2012 in Somerset Exclusive By Andrew McGill
Cannabis plants recovered following Burnham drugs raid
CANNABIS plants were discovered at a house in Burnham following a police raid on Monday (December 3).
Specialist drugs officers arrived at the property in Patricia Close and found the electricity supply to the home had been tampered with.
A police spokesman said a 'significant number' of cannabis plants were seized at the property but no-one has yet been arrested.
Babs Stanley says...
6:23pm Tue 4 Dec 12
Are we so stupid in Britain that we cannot learn the lessons of history? If we prohibit something for which there is huge demand then the price rises and violent criminals become involved.
If we introduced a legally regulated system we would solve nearly all the problems around cannabis. Science proves how much safer it is than tobacco, alcohol, prescription medicines and all other recreational drugs. The evidence is that where legal regulation is introduced, consumption by children and all health and social harms are reduced.
Doctors would be able to prescribe one of the most effective medicines that has no serious side effects at all. At the moment the government has given GW Pharmaceuticals an illegal monopoly on cannabis so they make millions out of a medicine that you can grow in your greenhouse for virtually nothing.
Independent, expert research also indicates that a tax and regulate policy on cannabis would produce a net gain to the UK economy of up to £9.3 billion pa.
Our present policy on cannabis is irrational, irresponsible and dangerous. Surely, this inevitable and long overdue reform will now begin to roll out across the world?