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UK: Home-Grown Cannabis 'Is Lesser Crime'

Daily Telegraph

Monday 14 Apr 2003

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People who grow their own cannabis should escape with a police warning
if they only cultivate the drug on a small scale, a think-tank has said.

The Joseph Rowntree Foundation report said 243 people were jailed in
2000 for growing cannabis, but there were wide variations in the way
police forces treated the crime.

Some charged growers with production - carrying a mandatory seven-year
sentence for a third conviction - while others used the lesser offence
of cultivation.

The report said up to half of all cannabis consumed in Britain might now
be home-grown and punishments for cultivation needed to be altered when
the drug was reclassified as Class C this summer.

Prof Mike Hough, co-author, said: "If small-scale home cultivation
attracted an on-the-spot warning rather than a caution or a court
conviction, it is likely that more users would switch to growing their
own and stop buying from dealers."

 

 

 

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