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UK: High Time for Sense on Cannabis
Daily Sport
Tuesday 16 Oct 2007 HIGH TIME FOR SENSE ON CANNABIS. DON BARNARD of the Legalise Cannabis Alliance Since when has a prohibitionist policy on any lifestyle be thought successful? It's high time society realised cannabis use is here to stay, and balanced the enjoyment of the many who find cannabis beneficial with the harm it causes to the vulnerable few. We have heard; the police Battersea are to be asked to arrest anyone caught with cannabis smacks of the return of "postal code enforcement". Not only does this ignore the Police Officers guidelines. It flies in the face common sense and justice to arrest people who are not actually doing any harm to others. We are told using cannabis is sending some users psychotic. So to protect people from harming themselves government is to increase the maximum sentence for possession cannabis from 2 year to 5 years jail. AWARE It's time to get real - If a threat of 5 years in jail from 1971 to 2004 did not stop an average of 5 million people using cannabis every year. What makes anyone think it will deter people in 2008! The only way to ensure that cannabis users are aware and protected from potential dangers of cannabis, is a way that so few politicians are brave enough to suggest. That is legalisation of possession and small-scale cultivation, the opening of retail outlets similar to Dutch "Coffeeshops" and the licensing of private member Cannabis Social Clubs. Cannabis may be a danger to health. But its possession and use should not be a crime.
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