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UK: Cannabis growers face eviction from Rotherham council homes
BBC News Thursday 17 May 2012 Rotherham Council said they had issued 40 notices warning of repossession since 2010. In the same period eight tenants caught cultivating large amounts of the drug were immediately evicted. A drugs charity claimed the eviction of people growing small amounts was "counterproductive". Paul Walsh, the council's housing and communities manager, said the action formed part of a more intensive programme of tenancy enforcement activity to be initiated across the borough in the coming weeks. Mr Walsh said: "The council will continue to work with South Yorkshire Police and our partner agencies to tackle anti-social behaviour and crime within our neighbourhoods. "People should feel safe where they live and we will be working hard to achieve that. "The vast majority of our tenants are law-abiding citizens and abide by their tenancy obligations. "Increasingly, action will be taken against those who are not." Rupert George from the charity Release, which campaigns for reform of the drug laws, said the council should distinguish between different types of growers. He said: "It's quite right that Rotherham Council is concerned about commercial growers. They've been linked to human trafficking and all sorts of things that really we should be trying to stop in society." But Mr George claimed that people who grew cannabis for their personal use were involved in a "victimless crime". "The idea that we should evict people like that from their homes seems incredibly harsh, and I suspect counterproductive." http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-south-yorkshire-18104951
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