so he checked his property and found a cannabis factory.” The Canna Zine news portal asked Bill Stone at the British Cannabis Lobby , which is actually based in South Wales, if these claims were true? Have South Wales Police actually "cracked" the war on drugs?
His answer left little to the imagination.
"Ever since Jacqui Smith went against the wishes of the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs, by leaking her plan to reclassify cannabis to the press back in November 2007, the price of cannabis has shown a steady but constant upward trend so far as prices in South Wales are concerned", said Stone.
"In November 2007 an ounce of "faux hashish", known locally as "soapbar", was available for between £25 & £35 per ounce, depending on how well connected you were", he continued.
"Today, that same street deal will cost the end user around £70, and over the same period, herbal cannabis - the mythical "skunk" we've heard so much about over the last two years, has gone up in price from £120 per ounce, to over £240 as the market stands today".
"That is", continued the Cannabis Lobby Spokesman, "if you can actually get a drug dealer to sell you an ounce of skunk, as its far more profitable for them to sell herbal cannabis in smaller, £10 (1 gram) deals, for which the same ounce will realise £280+ in retail sales when sold in £10 baggies".
"And lets not forget", he continued, "we have more heroin, cocaine and ecstasy on the streets today than ever before, and at prices which mean cannabis is no longer the cheapest "high" on the streets". A dangerous position in the wider drugs debate.
According to Stone, ecstasy is now cheaper to buy than a large bottle of lemonade or a can of Red Bull. Its available in certain areas for only £1 per pill.
Heroin, once seen as an "expensive" drug habit, is available for the first time ever in Cardiff, (5 miles from Treforest), in deals costing only £5, and at the same drug dealers you may well be offered cocaine deals starting at only £10.
"So South Wales Police announcing they are winning the war on drugs is a complete propaganda-driven farce which has little to do with factual content, and everything to do with trying to reassure the South Wales public on an issue no-one is really sure they need reassuring on."
"The fact is a huge percentage of the Welsh public consume cannabis without ill-effect, every single week, and will continue to do so until the price reaches critical mass and they can no longer afford it. At this stage the Police will claim a huge victory, when in actual fact what that means is people have found cheaper ways to get high. And when this happens South Wales will find itself in the grip of a 'class A' or prescription drugs problem, as is the case in other parts of the world which promote draconian measures against cannabis use".
"It just takes a few packs of cold-remedy pills and some ingredients which can be purchased at your local B&Q DIY store, for people to be able to "cook" their own methampetamine, with step-by-step instructions available on YouTube and elsewhere. And if thats too much bother, the information is freely available on the Internet which informs our teenagers how to turn a handful of mum or dads Co-Codamol, or Tramadol pain relief tablets, into a high which can be taken at absolutely no cost, as they just need to help themselves from the family medicine cabinet."
"And when that starts to happen regularly", concluded Stone, "We'll be there to take South Wales Police to task, for finally taking cannabis off the streets once and for all and in doing so, creating the largest opiate-based drugs epidemic in Welsh history, and mark my words, there are no "ifs or buts" about this. Only "when's". Written with thanks to Bill Stone at the Cannabis Lobby The British Cannabis Lobby
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