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"UK police end cannabis seizures." Law enforcement and customs authorities in the UK are shifting focus away from cannabis in order to concentrate efforts against hard drugs. Can the US learn from the British example?
This advertisement appeared in the National Review, the The New Republic, the Weekly Standard, The Nation, Reason Magazine and The Progressive in the summer of 2001.
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This advertisement appeared in the National Review, the The New Republic, the Weekly Standard, The Nation, Reason Magazine and The Progressive in the summer of 2001.
This advertisement is also available in printer-ready Portable Document Format.
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Police End Marijuana Seizures
New Effort To Halt Tide Of Hard Drugs |
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Special Report: Drugs in Britain
David Rose, Anthony Browne and Faisal Islam Sunday, July 8, 2001 The London (UK) Observer |
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Britain is to abandon the hunt for cannabis
smugglers and dealers in the most
dramatic relaxation of policy on the drug so far.
Instead the Government has told law enforcement officers, including Customs officials and police, to target resources on 'hard drugs', such as heroin and cocaine. Under the new strategy -- part of the most radical shift in drugs policy for a generation -- large-scale cannabis seizures and prosecutions will now take place only as a by-product of investigations into Class A drugs. Last week with the blessing of Home Secretary David Blunkett, police in Brixton, South London, abandoned their policy of prosecuting people found with small amounts of the drug.... The relaxation of policy on cannabis follows changing public attitudes to the drug. This weekend senior Tory MP Alan Duncan supported Peter Lilley, the former deputy leader of the Conservative Party, who called for the legalisation of sale of the drug in licensed outlets. Ash director Clive Bates said: We would legalise cannabis in its non-smokeable forms, such as in cakes, tea or droplets. There's irrationality and inconsistency in the policy on tobacco, soft and hard drugs. Even if you legalised cannabis in its smokeable forms you couldn't come close to the harm done by cigarettes, because no one smokes 20 joints a day.' |
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Can We Learn From The Brits?
Common Sense for Drug Policy, Kevin B. Zeese, President 3220 N Street NW #141, Washington, DC 20007 703-354-9050 -- 703-354-5695 (fax) www.csdp.org -- www.DrugWarFacts.org -- info@csdp.org |
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