Cannabis factory found in garage (From Daily Echo)

The police should postpone all investigations into violent crime or sexual assault and put all their resources into the investigation of this horrendous crime.

On 6th November 2012 Colorado and Washington state legalised cannabis for adults!

Are we so stupid in Britain that we cannot learn the lessons of history? If we prohibit something for which there is huge demand then the price rises and violent criminals become involved.

If we introduced a legally regulated system we would solve nearly all the problems around cannabis. Science proves how much safer it is than tobacco, alcohol, prescription medicines and all other recreational drugs. The evidence is that where legal regulation is introduced, consumption by children and all health and social harms are reduced.

Doctors would be able to prescribe one of the most effective medicines that has no serious side effects at all. At the moment the government has given GW Pharmaceuticals an illegal monopoly on cannabis so they make millions out of a medicine that you can grow in your greenhouse for virtually nothing.

Independent, expert research also indicates that a tax and regulate policy on cannabis would produce a net gain to the UK economy of up to £9.3 billion pa.

Our present policy on cannabis is irrational, irresponsible and dangerous. Surely, this inevitable and long overdue reform will now begin to roll out across the world?

“This man had no victims. GW Pharma sell cannabis in a bottle (Sativex - Nabiximols) worldwide. Their product is no different to what his chap was growing. They are not prosecuted, nor are they sent to prison for 3 years at a cost of approx £130,000, nor do they have victims. They have patients! This chap will probably lose his business and job and probably end up claiming benefits because he will have a criminal record. All for a bit of creative gardening, no different to big pharma. The only difference is he didn't have a licence.”

Who wants cannabis illegal? Apart from Drug dealers?