By Richard Shrubb Losing the streets? Why flush the sewers? Earlier this week a senior policeman told a national newspaper that the police are very close to ‘losing the streets’ due to national funding cuts. At the first annual NORML UK conference in 2013 a recently retired Chief Constable referred to drugs raids as ‘flushing…

By Richard Shrubb There’s a saying that the definition of insanity is to do the same thing time and again and to expect different results. The War on Drugs has been going on since alcohol was legalised in the US, and all it really does is criminalise otherwise law-abiding people while failing repeatedly and utterly…

By Richard Shrubb Considering in our estimates it took 55 hours of frontline police time to bust a woman with a gramme of cannabis, the answer to the lightbulb question is going to be very high indeed: Planning operation: 5 hours Admin staff calling in the fire brigade for a ladder: 2 hours + paperwork…

By Richard Shrubb West Yorkshire Police jubilantly posted an article on Facebook last week that they’d busted someone for about a joint’s worth of weed. They were a little unamused at the response of the cannabis community and threatened to arrest someone for making a derogatory comment about their prize seizure. Violent crime and sexual…