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Dorset PCC calls for cannabis to be made Class A drug

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Cannabis should be upgraded to a class A drug because of the harm it can cause, a policing chief has said. As Sir Sadiq Khan calls for possession of the drug to be decriminalised, David Sidwick, Dorset’s police and crime commissioner, has urged that cannabis, currently a Class B drug, should be put on a par with crack cocaine and heroin.

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Bournemouth Echo

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Dorset PCC calls for cannabis to be made Class A drug

"Let no-one say that cannabis is harmless - cracking down on this destructive drug is one of the greatest and most urgent needs facing us…

17 days ago·Bournemouth, United Kingdom

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Tucson Weekly

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Want Safer Cannabis?: Take it off the streets, put it behind the counter

David Abbott reflects on the state of cannabis in Southern Arizona.

17 days ago

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Dorset Echo

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New calls for cannabis to be made Class A drug

Dorset Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC), David Sidwick, is stepping up his call for cannabis to be reclassified in the wake of the publication…

17 days ago·Weymouth, United Kingdom

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The Telegraph

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Put cannabis on par with crack, says policing chief in rebuke for Khan

Commissioner says drug should be Class A over long-term health impacts

18 days ago·London, United Kingdom

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Málaga Hoy

The Last Blow to a Cannabis Club in Puerto De La Torre in Malaga: Drugs on Billiard Tables and Fake Plugs

The Local Police considers that the association "favors and promotes" drug trafficking and detains three people, two of them recidivists Police offensive against the cannabic clubs of Malaga: "Many are a big business to traffic

17 days ago

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keep106.com

Dorset PCC calls for cannabis to be reclassified as a Class A drug

The Dorset Police and Crime Commissioner, David Sidwick, has written the foreword for a new book which examines the impact of cannabis on physical and mental health, and has stepped up his call for cannabis (see note at end) to be reclassified as a Class A drug. The reference book, the Epidemiology of Cannabis by […]

18 days ago

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