Neighbourhood Policing Team Inspector Andrew Briggs said, "We have become aware that dealers are trying to introduce cannabis users to harder drugs by lacing small amounts of cannabis with crack cocaine."

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- responsible adults should be given the same responsibility as they receive when they are allowed to vote and have children, or when they are allowed to smoke, and drive a car.

Communications lead for the Cannabis Lobby is Bill Stone, who told the Canna Zine Cannabis News Portal , "West Yorkshire Police have made a public announcement regarding a dangerous batch of contaminated cannabis so first and foremost lets give credit where its due. Only 24 months ago contaminated cannabis was a myth of hippy folk-lore so to get an official announcement shows things are moving on".

But does it go far enough in offering cannabis users a modicum of protection from A-hole drug dealers who contaminate their scummy street-weed with cocaine?

"Not even nearly" says Bill Stone.

"But something Neighbourhood Policing Team Inspector Andrew Briggs said next was a big signal to what the official view-point regarding cannabis really is, when he said, "Using any drugs obviously poses a substantial risk to health, but the practice of introducing a highly addictive class A drug to people under the pretext of dealing a small amount of cannabis is an extremely dangerous precedent."

"In laymans speak" continues Stone, "I guess what the policeman is trying to say, is anyone who peddles coke on the pretext of selling a relatively benign substance such as cannabis is pond-life. And the Cannabis Lobby agree's", Stone added.

Inspector Andrew Briggs finished his official announcement by saying, "There is no quality control when using illegal drugs and the bottom line is that people are never truly aware of what is contained in any drugs they are taking", and according to the British Cannabis Lobby, this is all the more reason people should be allowed to grow their own personal supply.

"We're not saying cannabis should be legalised and unleashed onto the nation. Merely that it should remain a controlled class C substance, and that in the same vein as Holland has made policy changes internally which make cannabis readily available in small amounts, UK cannabis users should be afforded the same rights under EU law."

"Its no accident Holland constantly rates in the lower half of drug user league tables" Stone continued.

"In a recent World Health Organisation poll 19% of Dutch nationals admitted using cannabis "ever". Quite a statistic when you realise cannabis is for sale on every street corner in some Dutch Cities. Meanwhile in the United States, a nation with the most draconian of cannabis laws, 41% of the population admitted using cannabis, and 1 in 99 members of US society are in prison on a cannabis charge, and the UK is going the same way."

"By removing recreational cannabis users from the front-line war on drugs we're allowing the Police to concentrate on a serious job", concluded Stone. "That is, ridding our streets of the scourge of class A drugs".

Anything less is an abject capitulation which sees Police preferring the "easy target", which is cannabis users in the privacy of their own homes, who commit a crime that creates no victim, and have done in some circumstances for over 50 years so by now, they know what harm it is or isn't doing to them.

The British Cannabis Lobby
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