Public relaxed on the use of cannabis
The News Review:
- Public relaxed on the use of cannabis
- ‘Medical marijuana’ user drops defense and pleads guilty
- Prosecutor: ‘Medical marijuana’ user was growing to sell
- 1,835-pound marijuana stash found in SW Side home.
- Deputies discover $1 million worth of marijuana in Tucson stash house
Public relaxed on the use of cannabis
Telegraph.co.uk – Aug 14, 2006
Three quarters of people think that the sale and possession of hard drugs should remain a serious criminal offence but only a third think the same of soft drugs. The YouGov survey, carried out for the The Daily Telegraph and the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA), indicates a pragmatic attitude towards drugs, legal and illegal, with many people acknowledging that the damage caused by alcohol and tobacco often outweighs that from the occasional use of soft drugs… YouGov also confirms a sizeable age gap in attitudes to drugs: people born after 1960 are far more likely to regard their use as inevitable, whether or not they approve. Government policy in recent years has been moving towards a tougher crackdown on hard drugs while encouraging the police to focus less, if at all, on the personal use of soft drugs such as cannabis. That approach was behind the reclassification of cannabis and was reinforced by a recently published internal Whitehall study suggesting that most acquisitive crimes were committed by an estimated 280,000 high harm drug-users to support their cocaine and heroin habits. It found that the approach adopted over the past decade had failed to reduce hard drug use and the crime that accompanied it. The study also said that more than three million people used illicit drugs every year and compared the 749 deaths annually from heroin and methadone with the 6,000 deaths from alcohol abuse and 100,000 from tobacco. It also showed that about 700 annual hospital admissions on mental health grounds resulted from the use of cannabis, compared with 500 for heroin users.
‘Medical marijuana’ user drops defense and pleads guilty
CourtTV – Aug 14, 2006
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