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UK: Soccer fans get cannabis message

BBC Online

Sunday 22 Feb 2004

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Warnings about cannabis are being beamed to football fans at Sunday's Aston
Villa-Birmingham City clash.

The giant video screens at Villa Park are informing supporters that the
drug remains illegal, despite its recent downgrading to Class C.

West Midlands Police see the match as an ideal opportunity to remind the
sell-out 43,000 crowd that cannabis users can be arrested.

The message reads: "Whatever you call it, cannabis is still illegal."

Police said it was unlikely anyone caught with the drug for the first time
would actually face arrest.

Under new guidelines, cannabis users should only be detained in certain
aggravating circumstances.

These include smoking in public or using the drug around children, while
cannabis users under the age of 17 also face arrest.

The message is being beamed at fans at various intervals during the
Premiership match, which kicked off at 1200 GMT.

 

 

 

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