Published letter:
No connection between cannabis use and crime
Source:
Evening News, Norwich UK
Pub Date: Monday 20 October 2003
Pub LTE: No connection between cannabis
use and crime
Author: Steve Pank
Web:
http://www.eveningnews24.co.uk
Contact: EveningNewsLetters@archant.co.uk
Comment: Newshawk's headline
No connection between cannabis use and
crime
I AM not surprised at the anger at the
lenience of the sentence handed out to career criminal Kevin Matthews.
There can be only one reason for locking
a person up and that is if he is a threat to individuals and a threat to
society, which Matthews obviously is.
We have a Government and judiciary who are more determined to lock up
harmless cannabis smokers than violent criminals. There are more than 1,000 cannabis-only prisoners in this
country. Recent research has shown
there is no real connection between cannabis use and crime other than being in
possession of cannabis itself.
Steve Pank
Sandy Lane
Ashby St Mary
Norwich