r/unitedkingdom • u/RandomUsername1604 • 25d ago

Police officers say cannabis is effectively ‘decriminalised’ in the UK .

https://www.leafie.co.uk/news/police-cannabis-decriminalised-survey/

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u/zogolophigon 25d ago

I live with housemates who don't object to me smoking but would absolutely object to me growing in the house. I know because I asked. Growing is a bigger crime than smoking

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u/alicemalice12 25d ago

Which is fucked up bevause it avoids organised crime. If it was actually decriminalised this wouldn't be an issue

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u/Exact-Put-6961 25d ago

Decriminalisation is not legalisation.

They are different

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u/alicemalice12 25d ago

Yes but it would make thr sentences and consequences less

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u/Exact-Put-6961 25d ago

In UK we already have de facto decriminalisation at user level.

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u/Eddie_Honda420 25d ago

How the fuck can growing a plant even be illegal.
Most, if not all weed is rock solid these days full of pgr .they should do something like Spain and let people grow there own

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u/Vectorman1989 25d ago

They made picking magic mushrooms illegal. They grow everywhere and have done for millennia but now they're forbidden

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u/minecraftmedic 25d ago

Pretty sure picking mushrooms is legal? I was always told that it's only once you dry them they become illegal.

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u/MaievSekashi 24d ago edited 23d ago

It's illegal; they just can't get you for it easily. If you have a fresh mushroom you can easily just say you like mushrooms or pick them for other reasons, and it would therefore be hard to prosecute you on the grounds of abusing it as a drug if you can simply say you were unaware it was a drug. If you dry them, they can try to use that as evidence you're dealing or preparing them as drugs.

Comparison: It's like how if you found a belladonna flower on my bedside table you'd struggle to say I'm a poisoner compared to if I had a bunch of dried belladonna petals in a drawer. The difference is they can show evidence of planning or premeditation of something.

They rot extremely quickly so fresh ones are pretty much completely unviable to trade.

Technically the law is so wide-reaching literally everything "Mind altering" is illegal unless specifically okayed by the government. Obviously actual enforcement is of a different mindset, but the law passed under Theresa May to this effect is one of the most wide-reaching antidrug laws in the world by effectively being a whitelist instead of a blacklist.

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u/Emperors-Peace 25d ago

In my force, If you grew two or three plants for personal use, you'd likely have them removed from you and dealt with for possession. Very u likely to be prosecuted for cannabis cultivation unless there was evidence you were selling it or supplying it to vulnerable people etc.

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u/zogolophigon 25d ago

Good to know, Officer!

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u/wildeaboutoscar 25d ago

Not the point but it's very considerate of you to ask. Not everyone would ask their housemates.

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u/The_39th_Step 25d ago

I’m not sure it is you know. I think you can quite easily argue personal amounts for growth. Just don’t grow more than a couple of plants and you’ll be grand.

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u/zogolophigon 25d ago

Huh, I'll look into it a lil more then. Not sure how much that would convince my housemates though, gotta get my own place eventually