The experts say the criminal sanctions imposed on the 42,000 people sentenced each year for possession of all drugs ? and the 160,000 given cannabis warnings ? should be replaced with simple civil penalties such as a fine, attendance at a drug awareness session or a referral to a drug treatment programme.
They also say that imposing minimal or no sanctions on those growing cannabis for personal use could go some way to undermining the burgeoning illicit cannabis factories controlled by organised crime.
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All this and Felix too.
Decriminalise Drug Use, Say Experts After Six-Year Study (Guardian)
@suttonnick
(Hat tip: Lars Biscuits)
Source: http://www.broadsheet.ie/2012/10/15/finally-85/
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