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Press Release: Home office helps criminal heroin users, only!
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Thursday 23 Nov 2006 Home office helps criminal heroin users, only! 23. November 2006 The plausible explanation of yet another Chief Constable, Hugh Roberts, asking for heroin to be supplied legally to criminal class A users in a bid to curb crime has somewhat backfired with the Home Office admission that they are favouring supporting three national trials. Alun Buffry a campaigner for the Legalise Cannabis Alliance, said: “The Home office is now giving out very confusing messages to the public. "They are giving the drug to criminals who are addicted to heroin by operating three national trials. It might be right to focus on those who cause economic damage to society, but cannabis users, whose only “crime ” does no harm to anyone, are still targeted and arrested. There’s no national trials or cannabis coffeeshops, just another crackdown on home-growers”. "The LCA, now a pressure group, is asking the Home Office for a more pragmatic approach to all drug problems. This includes cannabis contamination, recently with glass fibre, sand, and adulterants that are currently damaging users due to lack of quality control or protection under the prohibition applied. “The Home Office drugs policies are all over the place and the bias towards cocaine and heroin provisions is remarkable. There’s absence of any solution for approx. 3 million cannabis users. That is abysmal. We deplore the lack of understanding as to what a legalised state for soft drugs could mean. “"Instead of using valuable tax monies for an expensive war on drugs, here and abroad, the Government could open up new revenue streams from personal and High Street franchises as well as commodity taxes. It would save massive costs for drugs squads, solicitors costs, prison spaces, everything to do with the criminalisation of drug users would disappear from the balance sheets and be replaced with enough funds to introduce a non-biased drugs education.” End of Press Release Legalise Cannabis Alliance press communications, Mobile, 07984 255015 http://www.lca-uk.org Notes for the editor: There are approximately 3 million cannabis users according to Home Office figures. An annual franchise to grow privately could net between 10-30 million/annum, coffee shop franchises could double that. With new taxes from pharmaceuticals and potentially thousands of ecological products based on cannabis to be marketed, this figure could be close to 250 million/annum to be spent extra. We have, as yet, not estimated the potentially massive savings to society, but they would dwarf the gains, a win win situation all round society would be healthier, safer and better educated about all drugs
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