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UK: Plunge In Cannabis Arrests

Paul Gilfeather

Sunday Mirror

Sunday 25 Jul 2004

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ARRESTS for cannabis possession have dropped by a third after the drug was
reclassified from Class B to the less serious Class C last January, new
figures will reveal this week.

Home Office insiders said police can now spend 200,000 extra hours every
year fighting hard drugs.

A Whitehall source added: "Their time is much better spent tackling those
peddling Class A drugs like heroin."

The charity Drugscope welcomed the figures but a spokesman said: "People
should not be misled into thinking that cannabis use has dropped by 33 per
cent."

A quarter of 16 to 24-year-olds use the drug - more than twice the world
average.

Reclassification means they are unlikely to be arrested if caught.

 

 

 

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