Summary
FORTY thousand cannabis smokers were let off by police with a verbal warning last year, laying bare the full extent of Labour's 'softly softly' policy on the drug.
Of 85,438 people caught carrying it, 42,855 or just over half escaped arrest or punishment and were instead given a formal warning, which carries no criminal record.See the full content of this document
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40,000 Cannabis Users Let Off with a Warning
The policy of avoiding arrests allowed the Home Office to claim a 21 per cent fall in overall drug offences last year.
Critics claimed the figure is meaningless, and warned that police are no longer acting as a safety net catching cannabis users and discouraging them from moving on t...See the full content of this document
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