Drugs and cash seized in Teignbridge raid

“Why can the Police arrest and prosecute cannabis dealers but all we can do with heroin addicts is supply them with methadone and leave them on the streets to cause mayhem stilll using heroin. (When I say on the streets I mean a nice little hostel by the sea in a top tourist resort). Drugs are supply and demand, take the supply away by all means but we will only achieve this when the demand on the street is dealt wit. Liberal lipservice only benefits the highly paid public service pat them on the back and feel their pain counsellor, but then wait a minute, counselling is supply and demand too, argh that makes sense, keep them taking drugs and you keep your job, silly me.”

“The cannabis industry is in the hands of three major corporations in this country. Firstly the Black Market plc supporting terrorism, human trafficking and organised crime in general. Secondly respectable Home Grower plc supporting personal health, paraphernalia/seed shops and hydroponics businesses thought the UK. Thirdly Big Pharma supporting huge international profits and wealthy shareholders (Google nabiximols to find out who). Unfortunately only the third enterprise is immune from prosecution despite the fact that it produces 30 tons of raw, high potency cannabis a year, makes a pure cannabis extract, bottles it and sells it. This product is deemed a safe and effective medicine by our government. The first happens as a direct consequence of prohibition, the second as a direct consequence of people gradually realising the truth after years of lies, the third as a consequence of corporate greed and government hypocrisy. Time for change!”

“The cannabis industry is in the hands of three major corporations in this country. Firstly the Black Market plc supporting terrorism, human trafficking and organised crime in general. Secondly respectable Home Grower plc supporting personal health, paraphernalia/seed shops and hydroponics businesses thought the UK. Thirdly Big Pharma supporting huge international profits and wealthy shareholders (Google nabiximols to find out who). Unfortunately only the third enterprise is immune of prosecution despite the fact that it produces 30 tons of raw, high potency cannabis a year, makes a pure cannabis extract, bottles it and sells it. This product is deemed a safe and effective medicine by our government. The first happens as a direct consequence of prohibition, the second as a direct consequence of people gradually realising the truth after years of lies, the third as a consequence of corporate greed and government hypocrisy. Time for change!”

“Drug prohibition is work for the Police and work for Al Capone.
If your drug or alcohol use in not a nuisance or a problem why should the law be involved. I'm all for laws against being a nuisance or a danger but not drugs. Else we need laws against not brushing your teeth.”

“I agree cannabis is a small problem and the police spend far too much both hunting down suppliers and bragging about their finds in the press. However find a cannabis dealer and you'll find a dealer in hard drugs. Take cannabis out of the equation, tax it like we tax tabacco (very highly - tax free for MS sufferers) and punish dealers of hard drugs with 20 imprissionment minimum (to be served in prison and not in the community). I'm with Bob Marley on this, but he didn't mention the prison bit, I'm with judge dredd on that.”

“"druggie thugs who use cannabis for social purposes"
You have it all wrong .. for thugs you need to go out on a Friday or Saturday night in our towns; there you will find thugs using drugs that should be class A, drugs which kill 70+ thousand people a year in the UK, drugs which require a constant police presence because of the potential of harm to the user and to third parties. Alcohol is number one trouble maker, how does using cannabis for social purposes make the person a thug?

"a 'significant find' which 'will have a major impact on the availability of cannabis..."
Will it?! The police and government say this every time, but in reality they have no control at all and since cannabis is so popular there is always supply to fill demand, these operations have little or no effect on the ground at all - this is wasting tax payers money year after year; and watching the proceeds of this industry go untaxed into the underworld. Recreational drug use is not going away; and its not the great evil people that some want to portray, the problem is in the prohibition.”

“Who are people to judge me'' - I think you'll find they are called judges.”

“When you're like myself and have a medical condition that there is NO cure for, lifelong and causes you to be in serious pain day in and day out then you can cast judgement on my ability to self-medicate.

As a long time suffer of Chrons, there is no cure and no pain killers however this wonderful plant gives me a little break from all the pain and who are people to judge me, to make my life that little more bearable.

Have the decency to stand in our corner otherwise your just standing in the big pharma corner letting them dictate how I live my life on the basis of their profits.”

“We can't give MS sufferers cannabis but we can spend millions giving heroin users methadone, it doesn't stop them using heroin, they just use both and get a bigger drug problem. However anyone growing and supplying cannabis should be accountable to the law, we should fight to change the law on MS sufferers not back druggie thugs who use cannabis for social purposes and sell it to school kids.”

“so many people are out of touch with cannabis. Alcohol, tobacco and prescription drugs cause much more harm. I don`t smoke it but my partner has MS and it should be available for medical purposes at the very least! no drug comes close to helping MS sufferers like cannabis FACT.

and that is coming from the most anti drug person your ever likely to meet. You think everything is black and white till you see a loved one suffering and how something your against suddenly seems like a gift from god.

LETS STOP CERTAIN PEOPLE SUFFERING BECAUSE A FEW ABUSE THE PLANT.”