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Echo
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 Posted: Fri Dec 02, 2005 10:02 pm Post subject: 500 'joints' for personal use |
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New drugs limits to allow 500 ' s' for personal use
The Telegraph
500 cannabis s is not trafficking, says Clarke
By John Steele, Crime Correspondent
(Filed: 01/12/2005)
Anyone caught carrying up to 500 cannabis s is likely to escape trafficking charges under Home Office proposals published yesterday.
Charles Clarke, the Home Secretary, revealed plans to set a threshold for the first time on the amount of drugs an individual can claim is for their own personal use.
Over the next three months, the Government will be asking experts including police, prosecutors and courts for their views on the correct threshold for various drugs, above which courts and juries will be invited to assume there is an intention to deal.
Home Office sources said last night they believed the move would lead to an increase in prosecutions for intent to supply.
But critics argue that a prescribed level would be exploited by criminals to stay just within the law, while punishing those with small amounts over the limit as traffickers. The downwards re-classification of cannabis last year was accompanied by a stiffening of sentences for trafficking.
Previously, police and courts have exercised their discretion and assessed the suspected intent from all the evidence not just the amount.
Four ounces of cannabis resin would be enough to roll about 512 light s or about 256 strong ones, according to figures produced by the drugs education charity Drug Scope. Its guide on cannabis said one sixteenth of an ounce - a usual weight offered by drug dealers - would be enough for eight light or four "quite strong" cannabis cigarettes.
However, the Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO), which successfully argued that police should retain the power of arrest over cannabis when it was downgraded to Class C, welcomed the Home Office consultation and played down the likely potential "advantage" to dealers.
A Home Office spokesman said the aim of the move was to clarify the point at which the quantity of drugs in a person's possession becomes above and beyond that reasonably held for personal use, and so help the courts to differentiate between possession and intent to supply.
Last night police in Lambeth, which includes Brixton, in south London, said they were to begin a three-month crackdown on cannabis, which would involve more arrests for possession.
Four years ago, a controversial "softly-softly" approach to cannabis was pioneered in Brixton. It paved the way for legislation which, last year, downgraded cannabis from a Class B to a "less serious" Class C drug.
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Rev.Gregory
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| Posted: Fri Dec 02, 2005 10:17 pm Post subject: |
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| whats the difference between class b and class c? is this a Police administration regulation? Isnt the normal prosecution for drugs based on a schedule scale? for instance marijuana is a schedule I drug. |
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Ferre
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That 'chedule' thing is only in the US, different countries have diffenent standards. IN the UK they have 'class', in holland they have 'list'.
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Echo
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I guess schedule 1 drug and Class A are the same. Someone correct me if I am wrong. Have you got a schedule 3?
Class C drugs presently in the UK are cannabis, tranquillisers, valium and anabolic steroids. Class B drugs amphetamines and barbiturates and class A heroin, cocaine, ecstasy and LSD.
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Rev.Gregory
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oh ok IC now teehee  |
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