Re: VOTE: Should we get tough on Cannabis users?

On Sep 7, 2:25 am, ecomania <grimus...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> http://www.thestar.co.uk/barnsley/viewarticle.aspx?sectionid=5543&art...
>
> "MORE than 1,000 people caught with cannabis in South York****re
> escaped with just a slap on the wrist last year.Government figures
> reveal 1,027 formal warnings - which let users off without a criminal
> record - were doled out for possession of pot in 2006 to 2007. This
> was up by 83 per cent on the number dished out in 2004 to 2005 - when
> police were first told not to prosecute most minor first-time
> offenders."
>
> Note how the mad morons have insisted upon harrassment even within a
> regime of declassification, following the first years honeymoon
> period. I've been caught with cannabis twice in 2 years recently and
> been prosecuted both times. Last time I 'elected' for Jury trial and
> pleaded not guilty. Why? "becwas I wanted it all over and done with as
> quickly as possibe" (in dumbed down police yobbo type voice).

We should reward them.  Anyone prosicuted for cannabis should do
everything possible to make it as time consuming and costly as
possible for the fascist prohibitionist bastards.  Death to Tyrants..