Baxenden cannabis grower spared prison (From Lancashire Telegraph)

• ""Judge Beverley Lunt said anyone who grew cannabis must understand there must be a custodial sentence."
  
  Wise words there judge and no mistaking.
  
  Cannabis is far safer than alcohol - there is literally no argument against that. Alcohol has by far the worst effect on society than any drug as well - compare it's effect with cannabis and the gulf is massive.
  
  The only major social studies conducted (in Costa Rica and Jamaica) found that cannabis users live on average longer than non-cannabis users by one and a half to two years.
  
  So the fact is that anyone who thinks for themselves knows that cannabis is a far safer recreational drug than alcohol - it will even, on average, make you live longer.
  
  The problem we have is that cannabis is illegal and it's supply is entirely controlled by criminals - hardcore criminals. Unfortunately criminals are by their nature criminals though, so they don't really care for the quality of their product as long as it makes them money. Criminals have regularly been known to add crushed glass to cannabis - which is great because it weighs more and gets the criminals more money, but it's absolutely awful on people's health who smoke it.
  
  The only way therefore to obtain a safe supply of the this safest recreational drug is to grow it yourself. The only other option is to give dispicable hardcore criminals your hard earned money to obtain something which could be harmful to your health.
  
  So cannabis smokers have a catch 22 situation - either fund criminals and endanger their health or grow their own and risk losing their jobs / wife / kids by going to prison by doing so - even though they are doing absolutely and categorically no harm whatsoever to either themselves or society by growing and smoking their own plants.
  
  What's doubly fair is that we are giving paedos / thugs / rapists joke sentences just so we can lock up these people. So you can go and smash some innocent persons face in, or you can sexually molest a 4 year year old innocent girl and expect a lesser sentance than someone who simply grows their own cannabis because they don't want to harm their health and they don't want to line the pockets of hardcore criminals.
  
  Like I say - wise words judge, wise words."
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